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 Senior Lecturer in the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh.

• 1 Introduction: The Cultural History of Sexuality in the Nineteenth CenturyChiara Beccalossi (University of Queensland, Australia) and Ivan Crozier (University of Edinburgh, UK)2 Heterosexuality: An Unfettered Capacity for Degeneracy Chad Parkhill and Elizabeth Stephens (both University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA) 3 Homosexuality: European and Colonial EncountersSean Brady (Birkbeck College, London, UK)4 Sexual VariationsLisa Downing (University of Exeter, UK)5 Sex, Religion, and the Law: The Regulation of Sexual Behaviors, 1820-1920Louise A. Jackson (University of Edinburgh, UK)6 Sex, Medicine and Disease: From Reproduction to Sexuality Chiara Beccalossi (University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA)7 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, USA)8 Prostitution: The Age of EmpiresRaelene Frances (Monash University, AUSTRALIA)9 Erotica: Sexual Imagery, Empires, and ColoniesRuth Ford (La Trobe University, AUSTRALIA)Notes Bibliography Contributors Index

BOTTOM LINE Upper-division undergraduate and graduate students will find this overview of the progression of thought about sexuality in the Western world helpful in their studies of social history, cultural history, and gender.