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The OBSEX project explores the historical role of material culture in shaping sexual science from 1870 to 1940. It examines how anthropological artifacts influenced scientific understanding of sexuality, emphasizing pleasure and desire rather than pathology.
OBSEX explores the crucial, yet overlooked, role that anthropological material culture played in the emergence of sexual science. I argue that, from its outset (1870-1940), Western research on sexual behaviours was not just medical, but that anthropological investigation had a crucial role in making pleasure and desires key interests in the production of scientific knowledge on sexuality.
In this way, OBSEX questions Michel Foucault’s dichotomy between an ‘Oriental’ Ars Erotica and a Western Sci…
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA
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United States, New Haven
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
Italy, Roma
Type: Public body
Activity type: Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments)
SME: No
United Kingdom, Exeter
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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