DDRIG: Intimate Crises: The history of notions of sexuality and gender in the 19th and 20th century

这项研究深入探讨了法律和社会规范的历史，以及围绕人体和性的知识的生产。其目的是揭示现代国家机构、法律框架、不断变化的物质关系以及医学知识的接受和翻译是如何在19世纪和20世纪改变性行为概念的。霸权叙事不仅试图混淆某些国家背景下非规范性经验在当代的存在，而且还旨在埋葬任何非规范性形式的性别和性行为的历史痕迹。这篇论文记录了性别多样性的历史和不断变化的观念，并探索了在不同的国家背景下，对这种多样性的态度是如何以及为什么发生了历史性的转变。通过进行档案研究来考察殖民前到后殖民时期，该项目旨在回答以下问题：(1)历史上非规范性行为的“他化性行为”是如何形成并导致那些“他人”被边缘化的？(2)这种“他化性行为”如何依赖于(或不是)围绕19世纪“医学化”性理解的出现和翻译而被广泛接受的论点？(3)在殖民和后殖民背景下，某些形式的性表达如何被定为犯罪？(4)某些类型的性行为的结构性边缘化是如何表现出来并影响公众健康的，例如，受艾滋病毒/艾滋病疫情影响的人口？项目成果将有助于撰写一篇博士论文和一本书的手稿，产生的数据将被存档，以便于未来对这些主题的研究。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This research delves into the history of the legal and social regulation of, and the production of knowledge, around human bodies and sexuality. The goal is to uncover the ways in which modern state institutions, legal frameworks, shifting material relations, and the reception and translation of medical knowledge, transformed conceptions of sexuality during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Hegemonic narratives have sought to obfuscate not only the contemporary existence of non-normative sexual experiences in certain national contexts, but also aimed to bury any historical traces of non-normative forms of gender and sexuality. This dissertation project documents the history and shifting perceptions of sexual diversity and explores how and why attitudes toward this diversity were historically transformed in different national contexts.By conducting archival research to examine the pre-colonial to post-colonial periods, the project aims to answer the following questions: (1) How did the historical ‘otherizing’ of non-normative sexuality take shape and contributed to the marginalization of those “others”? (2) How did the ‘otherizing’ depend (or not) on the widely accepted thesis surrounding the emergence and translation of ‘medicalized’ understandings of sexuality in the nineteenth century? (3) In a colonial and post-colonial context, how did certain forms of sexual expression become criminalized? (4) How did the structural marginalization of certain types of sexuality manifest itself and impact public health of e.g., populations impacted by the HIV/AIDS epidemic? Project findings will contribute toward a doctoral dissertation, a book manuscript, and the data generated will be archived to facilitate future research on these topics.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.