Alain Giami collection on sexualities, culture and health

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 7833

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

The Alain Giami collection offers researchers documentation of both the extensive career and the personal life of a sexologist employed by a major medical research institution. His professional papers detail his research into the medicalization of sexual behavior, the attitudes of medical doctors and nurses around sexuality, effective AIDS prevention, and the sexuality of disabled people from the 1980s onward, as well as providing extremely scarce erotic magazines from Brazil and sub-Saharan Africa that he collected as part of his research. Giami’s personal papers shed light on the obstacles he faced in securing respect for research about sexuality and document parts of his private life and love relationships.

Dates

circa 1980-2016.

Creator

Giami, Alain. (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in French, Norwegian, Portuguese, and English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Alain Giami is a French sexologist and social psychologist active in the field for nearly five decades. His areas of expertise include social psychology, public health, sexology, sexual and reproductive health, gender studies, disability, HIV/AIDS, ethics of sexuality, and research methodologies. Giami has published and presented widely in French, English, and Portuguese and has held numerous academic and research posts in France and abroad. Twice a recipient of Fullbright fellowships, he has worked in Brazil, Norway, Switzerland, the United States, and other countries as well as in France. From 2000 to 2018, Giami was a director of research at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), the French national institute of health and medical research. He now holds the post of emeritus research professor at the institution. In addition, Giami has been actively involved with international and French governmental, non-governmental and professional organizations related to sexuality, including UNESCO; the World Health Organization; the International Academy of Sex Research; and the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society. Currently he serves as vice president of the World Association for Sexual Health and associate editor of the journal “Sexologies: European Journal of Sexology and Sexual Health.”

Extent

14 cubic feet. (14 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

The collection contains faculty research papers as well as documentation (i.e., erotic and pornographic magazines) from sub-Saharan Africa, Brazil, France, Norway, and the United States.

Physical Description

Research materials, printed materials, publications.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: RMC Staff
Date completed:: October 2017
EAD encoding:: Jude Corina & Lin Sen Chai, October 2017
Date modified: Jude Corina, November 2017