Representing the "Third Sex": Cultural Translations of the Sexological Encounter in Early Twentieth-Century Germany

Katie Sutton

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Representing the "Third Sex": Cultural Translations of the Sexological Encounter in Early Twentieth-Century Germany

Katie Sutton

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This chapter focuses on the cultural mediation, or "translation", of encounters between the sexological profession and the individuals collectively and variously designated by that profession as "sexual intermediaries", "inverts", or members of a "third sex" in fin de siecle and interwar Germany. Specifically, it investigates how sexological classifications, medical case histories, and clinical encounters were negotiated in different textual and filmic genres, and what was at stake in these representations for nonscientific audiences.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Sexology and Translation: Cultural and Scientific Encounters across the Modern World
Editors	Heike Bauer
Place of Publication	Philadelphia, PA, USA
Publisher	Temple University Press
Pages	53-71
Volume	1
Edition	1st
ISBN (Print)	9781439912485
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvrf88r8.9
Publication status	Published - 2015

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Sexology and Translation: Cultural and Scientific Encounters across the Modern World. ed. / Heike Bauer. Vol. 1 1st. ed. Philadelphia, PA, USA: Temple University Press, 2015. p. 53-71.

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