Sexual Knowledge and Expertise in Europe's East: Transnational Exchanges

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Lišková, Kateřina
Sexual Knowledge and Expertise in Europe's East: Transnational Exchanges.
Contemporary European History. Roč. 33, č. 1 (2024), s. 1-5. ISSN 0960-7773. E-ISSN 1469-2171
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985963
Klíčová slova: sexual science * transnational knowledge circulation * East Central Europe​
Obor OECD: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
Impakt faktor: 0.8, rok: 2022
Způsob publikování: Omezený přístup
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/contemporary-european-history

East Central Europe played a key role in shaping the development of sexual science from the 1880s onwards, producing well-known figures such as Freud or Hirschfeld. By 1932, when the World League for Sexual Reform held its congress in Brno (following previous meetings in Berlin, London, Vienna and Copenhagen), the society had established branches across the region including Poland, Austria and Czechoslovakia. Yet, little is known about how local sexual science informed global networks of knowledge production, especially in the post-war period. Historians have tended to misconstrue the transnational nature of sexual science both before and after 1945. First, the contribution of East-Central Europeans to European cultures of scientific exchanged has been obscured by the focus on German and English speaking scientists and texts in the West. Second, it is assumed that East-Central European sexual science was largely cut off from international networks of knowledge exchange after World War II. We argue that neither assumption can withstand close scrutiny. We analyze the activities of sexual scientists both before and during state socialism, contributing to a growing interest in bringing the history of sexual science in East-Central Europe into the global history of sexology.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0349754