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Ralph M. Leck - Vita Sexualis - 9780252040009 - V9780252040009
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Vita Sexualis

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Description for Vita Sexualis Hardback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JMU; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 602.
Karl Ulrichs's studies of sexual diversity galvanized the burgeoning field of sexual science in the nineteenth century. But in the years since, his groundbreaking activism has overshadowed his scholarly achievements. Ulrichs publicly defied Prussian law to agitate for gay equality and marriage, and founded the world's first organization dedicated to the legal and social emancipation of homosexuals. Ralph M. Leck returns Ulrichs to his place as the inventor of the science of sexual heterogeneity. Leck's analysis situates sexual science in a context that includes politics, aesthetics, the languages of science, and the ethics of gender. Although he was the greatest ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252040009
SKU
V9780252040009
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99-15

About Ralph M. Leck
Ralph M. Leck has taught for many years in the University Honors Program at Indiana State University. He is the former director of Peace and Justice Studies at Marian University, Indianapolis. He is the author of Georg Simmel and Avant-Garde Sociology: The Birth of Modernity, 1880–1920.

Reviews for Vita Sexualis
"This book is a unique historical-to-contemporary overview of insurrectionary currents and a welcome contribution to contemporary anarchist studies."
European History Quarterly "[Vita Sexualis] provides a strikingly affirmative alternative to much recent postmodern discourse. . . . For any student of gay history and liberation, this refreshing work will prove instructive and will, I predict, be viewed as a key text ... Read more

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