Sexology in Culture

Lucy Bland is Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies at the University of North London. Laura Doan is Professor of English at the State University of New York.

• List of Contributors. Introduction: Rita Felski.Part I. A Dangerous New Science.1. Transformations: Subjects, Categories and Cures in Krafft-Ebing's Sexology: Merl Storr.2. It's What You Do With It That Counts: Interpretations of Otto Weininger: Judy Greenway.3. The Hidden Romance of Sexual Science: Eugenics, the Nation and the Making of Modern Feminism: Carolyn Burdett.4. Scientific Racism and the Making of the Homosexual Body: Siobhan Somerville.Part II. Labelling Bodies. .5. Symonds's History, Ellis's Heredity: Sexual Inversion: Joseph Bristow.6. 'Educating the Eye': The Tattooed Prostitute: Jane Caplan.7. Transsexuals and the Transsexualists: Inversion and the Emergence of Transsexual Subjectivity: Jay Prosser.Part III. Constructing Desires.8. Feminist Reconfigurations of Heterosexuality in the 1920s: Lesley Hall.9. Sex, Love and the Homosexual Body in Early Sexology: Suzanne Raitt.10. Havelock Ellis, Sigmund Freud and the State: Discourses of Homosexual Identity in Interwar Britain: Chris Waters.Part IV. Cultural Perversions. .11. Trial by Sexology?: Maud Allan, Salome and the 'Cult of the Clitoris' Case: Lucy Bland.12. 'Acts of Female Indecency': Sexology's Intervention in Legislating Lesbianism: Laura Doan.13. 'Sex is an Accident': Feminism, Science and the Radical Sexual Theory of Urania 1915-1940: Alison Oram.Index.

"This book throws important new light on our understanding of the cultural role of sexology, the would-be 'science of desire', in shaping ideas of sexuality during the twentieth century. The individual essays are compelling and enjoyable, while the volume as a whole shows the complexity of the sexological endeavour: constitutive and enabling, liberal and conservative, marginal at first and yet vital in the shaping of modern sexual discourses." Professor Jeffrey Weeks, South Bank University, London "This fascinating collection is a vital addition to our knowledge of sexual theory and its consequences." Professor Sheila Rowbotham, University of Manchester and author of A Century of Women "Sexology in Culture will surely come to be seen as a milestone." Times Literary Supplement "The reader gets a rich flavour of source material alongside incisive critical analysis; a productive combination for student, academic and general reader." The Times Higher Education Supplement " Sexology in Culture is an excellent collection of the kind of focused studies that have made the history of sexuality such a dynamic research field in recent years.an admirable collection – informative, well-organized and intellectually stimulating" Chandak Sengoopta, University of Manchester, Medical History