Dr Heike Bauer

Author: Dr Heike Bauer

Found in Translation: How Sexual Debates Developed Across the Modern World

By Dr Heike Bauer December 3, 2015 Medicine and Sexuality 4 comments

Heike Bauer A new collection of essays I edited, Sexology and Translation: Cultural and Scientific Encounters Across the Modern World (Temple UP, 2015) shows that the emergence of modern sexuality was a global phenomenon. The book examines the contemporaneous emergence of sexual science in Europe, Asia, Peru, and the Middle […]

Gender Matters at The Institute of Sexology

By Dr Heike Bauer April 7, 2015 Dispatches, Medicine and Sexuality 3 comments

Heike Bauer The Institute of Sexology at the Wellcome Trust is the first major exhibition in the UK dedicated to the history of sexology. Billed as a ‘candid exploration of the most publicly discussed of private acts’, it seeks to capture the imagination of prospective audiences with the deliberately provocative invitation […]