Book of Minor Perverts
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19th century
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aberrant
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contemporary
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etiology
framework
gay
gender studies
historical
history
homosexual
homosexuality
identity
lgbtqia
Michel Foucault
modern
modernist
nymphomania
nymphomaniac
paraphilia
perversion
pride
professor
queer
rainbow
research
scholarly
self awareness
sex
sexology
sexual
sexualities
sexuality
wanderlust
Product details
- ISBN 9780226607955
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Feb 2019
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
