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    Novel translations of the scientific subject: Clorinda Matto de Turner, Margarita Práxedes Muñoz, and the gendered shaping of discourses of desire in Nineteenth-Century Peru

    Fraser, Jennifer (2015) Novel translations of the scientific subject: Clorinda Matto de Turner, Margarita Práxedes Muñoz, and the gendered shaping of discourses of desire in Nineteenth-Century Peru. In: Bauer, Heike (ed.) Sexology and Translation: Cultural and Scientific Encounters Across the Modern World, 1880-1930. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, pp. 179-196. ISBN 9781439912485.

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    Abstract

    Book synopsis: Sexology and Translation is the first study of the contemporaneous emergence of sexology in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Heike Bauer and her contributors—historians, literary and cultural critics, and translation scholars—address the intersections between sexuality and modernity in a range of contexts during the period from the 1880s to the 1930s. From feminist sexualities in modern Japan to Magnus Hirschfeld’s affective sexology, this book offers compelling new insights into how sexual ideas were formed in different contexts via a complex process of cultural negotiation. By focusing on issues of translation—the dynamic process by which ideas are produced and transmitted—the essays in Sexology and Translation provide an important corrective to the pervasive idea that sexuality is a “Western” construct that was transmitted around the world. This volume deepens understanding of how the intersections between national and transnational contexts, between science and culture, and between discourse and experience, shaped modern sexuality.

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    Item Type: Book Section
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences
    Research Centres and Institutes: Gender and Sexuality, Birkbeck (BiGS), Social Research, Birkbeck Institute for (BISR)
    Depositing User: Jennifer Fraser
    Date Deposited: 30 Jun 2015 12:00
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:17
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/12352

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