Sexology Uncensored: The Documents of Sexual Science

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Lucy Bland, Laura Doan
University of Chicago Press, 1998 M02 15 - 261 pages
Sexology Uncensored brings together, for the first time, many of the key documents of the modern science of sexuality that emerged in the late nineteenth century. The early pioneers of the new field of sexology examined and classified sexual behaviors, identities, and relations. For years much of the material here has been "censored" in the sense that it is difficult to obtain, subject to restrictive circulation, or available only in medical archives. The extracts (which date from the 1880s to the 1940s) cover a variety of topics including gender and sexual difference; homosexuality; transsexuality and bisexuality; heterosexuality; marriage and sex manuals; reproductive control; eugenics; race; and various sexual proclivities.

Offering readers access to the primary materials on which contemporary sexology is founded, Sexology Uncensored is an invaluable record for all those interested in how we have come to think about sex and sexuality over the last hundred years.

Sexology in Culture and its companion Sexology Uncensored will interest all those concerned with understanding modern sexual discourse in its historical context.

 

Contents

General Introduction Lucy Bland and Laura Doan
1
Introduction Lucy Bland
11
Sex and Character 1903 Otto Weininger
25
Modesty The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity
34
Introduction Laura Doan and Chris Waters
41
von KrafftEbing
45
Introduction Jay Prosser and Merl Storr
75
Sexual Inversion
91
Introduction Carolyn Burdett
165
The Family and the Nation 1909 W C D Whetham
171
The Task of Social Hygiene 1912 Havelock Ellis
178
Aims and Objects of the Eugenics Society 1935
184
Eugenics and Society 1937 Julian Huxley
194
Introduction Siobhan Somerville
201
Sexual Inversion
207
Sexual Inversion Among Primitive Races 1902
213

Transvestites 1910 Magnus Hirschfeld
97
Introduction Lesley Hall
107
Married Love 1918 Marie Stopes
116
Hypatia or Woman and Knowledge 1925 Dora Russell
123
Introduction Lesley Hall
137
Men Women and God 1923 A Herbert Gray
143
The Sexual Question 1906 August Forel
221
Racism 1938 Magnus Hirschfeld
227
Introduction Lesley Hall
233
Sex
247
Eonism
257
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Laura Doan is professor of cultural history and sexuality studies at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture and editor of Sexology in Culture: Labeling Bodies and Desires, among other books.

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