Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and Desires

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.