Sexology and translation : cultural and scientific encounters across the modern world / edited by Heike Bauer.

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2015.

vi, 275 pages ; 23 cm.

Introduction : translation and the global histories of sexuality / Heike Bauer -- Conceptualizations. Translation as lexical invention : an intellectual history of Frigiditas and anaphrodisia / Peter Cryle ; Translation as transposition : Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Darwinian thought, and the concept of love in German sexual modernity / Brigit Lang ; Representing the "third sex" : cultural translations of the sexological encounter in early twentieth-century Germany / Katie Sutton ; Data of desire : translating (homo)sexology in Republican China / Howard Chiang -- Formations. British sexual science beyond the medical : cross-disciplinary, cross-historical, and cross-cultural translations / Kate Fisher and Jana Funke ; Translating sexology in late-Tsarist and early-Soviet Russia : politics, literature, and the science of sex / Brian James Baer ; Translating sexology, writing the nation : sexual discourse and practice in Hebrew and Arabic in the 1930s / Liat Kozma ; Translation and two "Chinese sexologies" : Double plum and Sex histories / Leon Antonio Rocha -- Dis/identifications. Novel translations of the scientific stubject : Clorinda Matteo de Turner, Margarita Práxedes Muñoz, and the gendered shaping of discourses of desire in 19th-century Peru ; The translation of Edward Carpenter's The intermediate sex in early twentieth-century Japan / Michiko Suzuki ; Translation and the construction of a "Uranian" identity : Edward Prime-Stevenson's [Xavier Mayne's] The intersexes (1908) / James P. Wilper ; Suicidal subjects : translation and the affective foundations of Magnus Hirschfield's sexology / Heike Bauer.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index.