The Politics of Love: Sex Reformers and the Nonhuman

The Politics of Love explores the entanglement of emotions, social movements, and science in reconfiguring human and nonhuman relations, highlighting the sex reform movement's commitment to changing the world by changing the practice of sex.

Format: Hardback
Length: 238 pages
Publication date: 23 January 2024
Publisher: University of California Press

The Politics of Love delves into the intricate interplay of emotions, social movements, and science in reshaping human and nonhuman relationships. During the transformative period between the 1890s and the 1920s, sex reformers emerged as a diverse and culturally influential collective of professionals, including doctors, psychologists, artists, political activists, novelists, and academics, driven by a shared mission to transform the world by altering the practice of sex. These reformers reimagined love as a scientific endeavor, integrating humans and nonhumans into the fold of early-twentieth-century racial, gender, and sexual politics. In her illuminating work, Carla Christina Hustak demonstrates that the sex reformers' belief in the transformative power of love extends beyond a mere historical narrative; it is a timely and interconnected moment that speaks to pressing contemporary concerns about the global implications of our emotional connections to other humans, animals, the Earth, and atmospheric and technological forces.

Weight: 440g
Dimension: 235 x 157 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780520395213