Translation and the Global Histories of

Translation examines the shape and shaping of sexual ideas and related scientific practices and cultural representations in parts of Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and South America between the late nineteenth century and the period leading up to World War II. It brings together historians, literary and cultural critics, and translation scholars who explore how the textual and real encounters between an international band of writers, reformers, and medical doctors shaped ideas about “sex” across the modern world. The studies gathered here present original research and fresh conceptual insights on the intersections between sexuality and modernity in a range of disciplinary, cultural, and (trans)national contexts. They focus on the translations and mistranslations that occurred when bodies and desires were conceptualized in terms of “sex” and uncover hitherto unexplored avenues of exchange between different contexts and the key figures that shaped sexual debates during the inaugural period of the sexual science, 1880–1930s. While some of the chapters reconsider the more familiar European archives of sexology to reveal their affective development and debts to a wide range of cultural and scientific debates, others explore the development of modern sex research and related cultural and political debates in Russia, China, Japan, Egypt, Palestine, and Peru. Individually, these studies present new knowledge about the development of different national and transnational sexologies and their relationship to each other. Together they provide an important Introduction