Kirsten Leng is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Leng's book is an extremely valuable contribution to the scholarship on the history of sexology and its reception, and no academic working in the area can afford to ignore it.(Journal of the History of Sexuality) Kirsten Leng has done historians an enormous service by carefully retracing and interpreting the writings of [nine German and Austrian] women sex reformers... [who] tend to be marginalized or entirely missing in many accounts of German sexology. What Leng offers here has never been attempted before,... both a group portrait and a close textual reading, in her own excellent translation and in clear and concise prose, of all their main works.... A wonderful book that manages to let its protagonists shine as dazzling innovators, even if they were also afflicted by contemporary prejudices and short-sightedness.(AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW) Leng pioneers a more inclusive and richly contextualised understanding of sexology that allows her to examine, for the first time, how women sexologists shaped German sexual science and that invites future scholars to investigate what other actors and ideas have been left out of existing histories of sexology(Women's History Review) Leng's book saves many fascinating thinkers and activists from oblivion [...]. Leng's detailed and nuanced analysis of their writings shows how their viewpoints challenged the gender-biased perceptions of male sexologists, who considered women merely as object rather than as subject of scientific rationality, and largely excluded them from their professional organizations, editorial boards, and conferences(Centaurus)

Kirsten Leng is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Leng's book is an extremely valuable contribution to the scholarship on the history of sexology and its reception, and no academic working in the area can afford to ignore it.(Journal of the History of Sexuality) Kirsten Leng has done historians an enormous service by carefully retracing and interpreting the writings of [nine German and Austrian] women sex reformers... [who] tend to be marginalized or entirely missing in many accounts of German sexology. What Leng offers here has never been attempted before,... both a group portrait and a close textual reading, in her own excellent translation and in clear and concise prose, of all their main works.... A wonderful book that manages to let its protagonists shine as dazzling innovators, even if they were also afflicted by contemporary prejudices and short-sightedness.(AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW) Leng pioneers a more inclusive and richly contextualised understanding of sexology that allows her to examine, for the first time, how women sexologists shaped German sexual science and that invites future scholars to investigate what other actors and ideas have been left out of existing histories of sexology(Women's History Review) Leng's book saves many fascinating thinkers and activists from oblivion [...]. Leng's detailed and nuanced analysis of their writings shows how their viewpoints challenged the gender-biased perceptions of male sexologists, who considered women merely as object rather than as subject of scientific rationality, and largely excluded them from their professional organizations, editorial boards, and conferences(Centaurus)

Kirsten Leng is Assistant Professor in the Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Leng's book is an extremely valuable contribution to the scholarship on the history of sexology and its reception, and no academic working in the area can afford to ignore it.(Journal of the History of Sexuality) Kirsten Leng has done historians an enormous service by carefully retracing and interpreting the writings of [nine German and Austrian] women sex reformers... [who] tend to be marginalized or entirely missing in many accounts of German sexology. What Leng offers here has never been attempted before,... both a group portrait and a close textual reading, in her own excellent translation and in clear and concise prose, of all their main works.... A wonderful book that manages to let its protagonists shine as dazzling innovators, even if they were also afflicted by contemporary prejudices and short-sightedness.(AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW) Leng pioneers a more inclusive and richly contextualised understanding of sexology that allows her to examine, for the first time, how women sexologists shaped German sexual science and that invites future scholars to investigate what other actors and ideas have been left out of existing histories of sexology(Women's History Review) Leng's book saves many fascinating thinkers and activists from oblivion [...]. Leng's detailed and nuanced analysis of their writings shows how their viewpoints challenged the gender-biased perceptions of male sexologists, who considered women merely as object rather than as subject of scientific rationality, and largely excluded them from their professional organizations, editorial boards, and conferences(Centaurus)