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.

"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

• 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.