The Book of Minor Perverts
The Book of Minor Perverts
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Summary
A historical, scientific, and political analysis of how sexuality is represented at the intersection of queer studies, modernist studies, American studies, history of sexuality, and medical humanities.
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The Book of Minor Perverts by Benjamin Kahan
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.
Kahan, Benjamin: - Benjamin Kahan is associate professor of English and women's and gender tudies at Louisiana State University.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780226607955 |
| ISBN 10 | 022660795X |
| Title | The Book of Minor Perverts |
| Author | Benjamin Kahan |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2019-02-05 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |