Scientia Sexualis

Edited by Jennifer Doyle and Jeanne Vaccaro This richly illustrated companion to the ICA LA exhibition Scientia Sexualis features artworks by twenty-six artists whose practices address, dissolve, and reimagine sex and gender within the apparatus of science—past and present. Their works tackle and transform the origins of modern gynecology and its ties to the torture of enslaved women, the pathologization of the sexual body, the entanglement of colonization with sexual violence, and the nonconsensual gendering of trans and intersex people.Texts by Jennifer Doyle, Eva Hayward, Caroline Ellen Liou, Joan Lubin, Hil Malatino, Amber Jamilla Musser, Amanda Sroka, Jeanne Vaccaro, Leticia Alvarado, KING COBRA (documented as Doreen Lynette Garner), Michelle H. Raheja, Andrea Carlson, and C. Riley Snorton address and situate the exhibition’s visual and performance works within BIPOC, feminist, trans, and queer studies. Examining the difficult history of science as it relates to racialized and gen