In November 2018 Dr Ina Linge gave a paper at the University of Warwick German Studies seminar, titled ‘The Potency of the Butterfly: Gender, Sexuality and Non-human Animals in German Sexology and the Arts after 1900’.
The talk discussed the Butterfly Dance, pioneered by the American dancer Loïe Fuller (1862 –1928), pictured below, and how it was received in the work of sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld to make claims about the nature and naturalness of sexual desire.
You can find the full programme below.
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Dr Ina Linge, Associate Research Fellow on the Rethinking Sexology project, has published a journal article entitled “Sexology, Popular Science and Queer History in Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others)” in Gender & History vol. 30 no 3, 2018. You can read and download this Open Access article here.
This inter-disciplinary workshop was held on 4th May 2018 at the University of Exeter. Dr Leon Rocha (University of Liverpool) presented on “Sexology in the Tabloids: The Case of Zhou Yueran (1885-1962)” and Dr Ting Guo (University of Exeter) discussed “Translation and queer feminism in China: Jihua Network and Carol (2015)”. You can find the abstracts below.
This seminar was hosted by the University of Exeter’s Centre for Medical History and the Rethinking Sexology project, and was part of the Medical History and Humanities seminar series (details of which can be found here) Continue reading
In March 2018 two of our project postdocs Jen Grove and Ina Linge organised a workshop at the University of Exeter to bring together colleagues from the UK and Germany to share knowledge and experiences of working on projects with young people in the area of sex, sexuality, gender, education, health, and involving museums, collections and exhibitions. The workshop was co-hosted by the Rethinking Sexology project and the Sex and History project.
Dr Ina Linge, Associate Research Fellow on the Rethinking Sexology project, published a chapter on “German and British Sexual Sciences Across Disciplines at the Fin de Siècle: ‘Homosexuals’, ‘Inverts’ and ‘Uranians'” in The Edinburgh Companion to Fin-de-Siècle Literature, Culture and the Arts, ed. Josephine Guy (Edinburgh University Press, 2017).
Dr Ina Linge, Associate Research Fellow on the Rethinking Sexology project, published a co-edited volume (with Dr Robert Craig, University of Bamberg) entitled Biological Discourses: The Language of Science and Literature around 1900 (2017). Several chapters within this volume, in particular in ‘Part II: Constructions of Desire’ discuss the history and literature of sexology and psychoanalysis.
Abstract:
The relationship between biological thought and literature, and between science and culture, has long been an area of interest by no means confined to literary studies. The Darwin Anniversary celebrations of 2009 added to this tradition, inspiring a variety of new publications on the cultural reception of Darwin and Darwinism. With a fresh scope that includes but also reaches beyond the «Darwinian» legacy, the essays in this volume explore the range and diversity of interactions between biological thought and literary writing in the period around 1900.
How did literature uniquely shape the constitution and communication of scientific ideas in the decades after Darwin? Did literary genres dangerously distort, or shed critical light upon, the biological theories with which they worked? And what were the ethical and social implications of those relationships? With these broad questions in mind, the contributors consider the biological embeddedness of human nature, perspectives on sexual desire, developments in racial thinking and its political exploitation, and poetic engagements with experimental psychology and zoology. They also range across different literary traditions, from Germany, France, Italy, and the Netherlands, to Britain and the USA. Biological Discourses provides a rich cross-section of the contested relationship between literature and biological thought in fin-de-siècle and modernist cultures.
Reference: Ina Linge and Robert Craig (eds.), ‘Biological Discourses: The Language of Science and Literature around 1900’ (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017).
In December 2017, Dr Ina Linge, Associate Research Fellow on the Rethinking Sexology project, spoke at the symposium ‘The Visual Archives of Sexology’, organised by Dr Heike Bauer and Dr Katie Sutton, at Birkbeck, University of London. Her paper was on ‘Gaps in the Archive: Sexology and Film in and beyond Anders als die Andern (1919)’.
Dr Ina Linge, Associate Research Fellow on the Rethinking Sexology project, spoke at the annual Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland (AGS) conference at the University of Warwick in September 2017. The title of her paper was: ‘Making LBGT* History: Gender and Sexuality in Anders als die Andern (1919)’.