Histories of Sexology

lt;p>Alain Giami is Emeritus Research Professor at Inserm (National Institute of Health and Medical Research) in Paris, France. He is currently the Chair of the World Association for Sexual Health Scientific Committee (2017-2021). Among other books, he has co-edited Sexual Revolutions, (2015).

1. Sexology's unexpected progressivness in the Cold War East: Shaping people's sexual selves, socialist societies.- 2. 'Humanitarian hedonists' as sex educators: the medical and political work of Fritz Brupbacher (1874-1945) and Paulette  Brupbacher (1880-1967).- 3. 'Healthy' relationships: feminism and the psy disciplines in the political history of sexual violence in contemporary America.- 4. Saving Sexual Science: Kinsey and American Religious-Conservative Politics (Alexandre Paturel, Véronique Mottier, Cynthia Kraus).- 5. Medicine and the paradox of the decriminalization of homosexuality in Switzerland: toward a new system of coercion (1940-1960).- 6. Politics, Religion and Sexuality: psychoanalysis and sexology in the Brazilian publishing market in the first decades of the 20th century.- 7. Shaping the Erotic Body: Technology and Women's Sexuality in Late Nineteenth-Century American Medicine.- 8. 'Lack of clarity' and 'false premises' Partnership and translations in impotence-related petitions for marriage annulment in 19th-century Spain (Marie Walin).- 9. Popular Medical Books and Defloration: Shaping Femininity and Masculinity in the Nineteenth Century (Pauline Mortas).- 10. Girl or boy?  The French birth of the word sexologie (1901-1912).- 11. Marie Bonaparte and female frigidity: from physiology to psychology.- 12. Hernani de Irajá and the early years of Brazilian sexology.- 13. The Pornographic Object of Knowledge: Pornography as Epistemology.- 14. African hypersexuality: a threat to white settlers? The stigmatization of "black sexuality" as a means of regulating "white sexuality".- 15. Sexological discourses and the self in Rachilde's Monsieur Vénus (1884) and Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness( 1928).- 16. The Various Stages of the Alphabet Soup: from Sade to modern times.- 17. The origins of the theory of sexual fétichisme: articles by Charcot and Magnan (1882) and Alfred Binet (1887).