Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and DesiresLucy Bland, Laura Doan The key founders of sexology, the "science of desire," were Havelock Ellis, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, and Magnus Hirschfeld. This volume examines the impact of their writings on English-speaking culture from the 1880s to the early 1940s. How influential a field was sexology during this period, and how much power did sexologists wield? What was the impact of their work on popular and official attitudes to sex? Lucy Bland and Laura Doan have brought together leading historians of sex, cultural and literary critics, and scholars in gay, lesbian, and queer studies, to reassess current debates on sexology in light of its history. They address issues such as the relation of "sexual science" to the law, government policy, journalism, eugenics programs, marriage and sex manuals, and literary representation. They also map out new readings of transsexuality and bisexuality, and the centrality of race within sexology. Sexology in Culture and its companion Sexology Uncensored will interest all those concerned with understanding modern sexual discourse in its historical context. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Dangerous New Science | 9 |
Transformations Subjects Categories and Cures in KrafftEbings Sexology | 11 |
Its What You Do With It That Counts Interpretations of Otto Weininger | 27 |
The Hidden Romance of Sexual Science Eugenics the Nation and the Making of Modern Feminism | 44 |
Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body | 60 |
Labelling Bodies | 77 |
Symondss History Elliss Heredity Sexual Inversion | 79 |
Constructing Desires | 133 |
Feminist Reconfigurations of Heterosexuality in the 1920s | 135 |
Sex Love and the Homosexual Body in Early Sexology | 150 |
Havelock Ellis Sigmund Freud and the State Discourses of Homosexual Identity in Interwar Britain | 165 |
Cultural Perversions | 181 |
Trial by Sexology? Maud Allan Salome and the Cult of the Clitoris Case | 183 |
Acts of Female Indecency Sexologys Intervention in Legislating Lesbianism | 199 |
Sex Is An Accident Feminism Science and the Radical Sexual Theory of Urania 191540 | 214 |
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