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Sexology in culture : labelling bodies and desires

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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.

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