Book of Minor Perverts - Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality

Shortlisted for the Modernist Studies Assocation Book Prize

-Statue-fondlers, wanderlusters, sex magicians, and nymphomaniacs: the story of these forgotten sexualities-what Michel Foucault deemed "minor perverts"-has never before been told. In The Book of Minor Perverts, Benjamin Kahan sets out to chart the proliferation of sexual classification that arose with the advent of nineteenth-century sexology. The book narrates the shift from Foucault's "thousand aberrant sexualities" to one: homosexuality. The focus here is less on the effects of queer identity and more on the lines of causation behind a surprising array of minor perverts who refuse to fit neatly into our familiar sexual frameworks. The result stands at the intersection of history, queer studies, and the medical humanities to offer us a new way of feeling our way into the past.

About the author

Benjamin Kahan is professor of English and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Louisiana State University.

Summary

A historical, scientific, and political analysis of how sexuality is represented at the intersection of queer studies, modernist studies, American studies, history of sexuality, and medical humanities.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Kahan, Kahan Benjamin
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9780226607955
• ISBN: 978-0-226-60795-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Human Sexuality, Literary studies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Gay & Lesbian studies, Psychology of gender, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics