Chiara Beccalossi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia, and author of Female Sexual Inversion: Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology.Ivan Crozier is a Senior Lecturer in the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh, UK and is currently writing a book on culture-bound syndromes in psychiatry.

• PrefaceSeries AcknowledgementsList of Illustrations1 Introduction: The Cultural History of Sexuality in the Nineteenth CenturyChiara Beccalossi, University of Queensland, Australia and Ivan Crozier, University of Edinburgh, UK2 Heterosexuality: An Unfettered Capacity for Degeneracy Chad Parkhill and Elizabeth Stephens, both University of Queensland, Australia3 Homosexuality: European and Colonial EncountersSean Brady, Birkbeck College, London, UK4 Sexual VariationsLisa Downing, University of Exeter, UK5 Sex, Religion, and the Law: The Regulation of Sexual Behaviors, 1820-1920Louise A. Jackson, University of Edinburgh, UK6 Sex, Medicine and Disease: From Reproduction to Sexuality Chiara Beccalossi, University of Queensland, Australia7 Sex, Popular Beliefs and Culture: Discourses on the Sexual Child Gail Hawkes, University of New England, Australia and R. Danielle Egan, St Lawrence University in Canton, USA8 Prostitution: The Age of EmpiresRaelene Frances, Monash University, Australia9 Erotica: Sexual Imagery, Empires, and ColoniesRuth Ford, La Trobe University, AustraliaNotes Bibliography Contributors Index