The Politics of Love (eBook)

Sex Reformers and the Nonhuman

Carla Christina Hustak (Autor)

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2024
238 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39523-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The Politics of Love explores the entanglement of emotions, social movements, and science in reconfiguring human and nonhuman relations. As Darwin's evolutionary theory informed the development of sexual science and the sex reform movement between the 1890s and the 1920s, sex reformers emerged as a group of diverse and culturally influential professionals—doctors, psychologists, artists, political activists, novelists, and academics—who shared a profound commitment to changing the world by changing the practice of sex. Sex reformers reinvented love as a scientific practice of sex that brought humans and nonhumans into the fold of early-twentieth-century racial, gender, and sexual politics. Carla Christina Hustak illuminates how sex reformers' insistence that love can shift human and nonhuman relations is more than just a historical narrative—it is a moment in time interconnected with urgent contemporary concerns over the global implications of our emotional relationships to other humans, animals, the earth, and atmospheric and technological forces.
 

Inhalt

Contents

List of Figures 
Acknowledgments 

Introduction. Love Stories for the Nonhuman 
1 “Becoming-Animal”: Evolving Love in Animal Sex Experiments 
2 Eco/ontologies: Love, Sex Reform, and Environmental Sciences 
3 Planetary Intimacies: Physics, Occultism, and Nonhumans in Love 
4 Reinventing Love as Technologies of Sex and Marital Intimacies 
5 Romancing Evolutionary Biology: Darwinism in the Metropolis 
Conclusion. Genealogies of Love: Darwinian Romances in Reproductive Sciences 

Notes 
Bibliography 
Index
 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.1.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Schlagworte: Affect Studies • Birth Control • British and American sex reformers • Early 20th Century • experimentation • Freud • history of reforming sexual morality • intellectual movements • Marie Stopes • nature movement • social change • Spiritual • World League for Sexual Reform
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39523-9 / 0520395239
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39523-7 / 9780520395237