{"product_id":"sexology-in-culture-9780745619828","title":"Sexology in Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eaeo Sets out and assesses the work of famous sexologists as well as the cultural context and impact of their work.  aeo Contributions from a range of scholars in different disciplines which gives the volume a true interdisciplinary appeal.  aeo Individual chapters outline a broad range of critical methodologies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book throws important new light on our understanding of the cultural role of sexology, the would-be 'science of desire', in shaping ideas of sexuality during the twentieth century. The individual essays are compelling and enjoyable, while the volume as a whole shows the complexity of the sexological endeavour: constitutive and enabling, liberal and conservative, marginal at first and yet vital in the shaping of modern sexual discourses.\" \u003ci\u003eProfessor Jeffrey Weeks, South Bank University, London\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This fascinating collection is a vital addition to our knowledge of sexual theory and its consequences.\" \u003ci\u003eProfessor Sheila Rowbotham, University of Manchester and author of\u003c\/i\u003e A Century of Women\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Sexology in Culture\u003c\/i\u003e will surely come to be seen as a milestone.\" \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The reader gets a rich flavour of source material alongside incisive critical analysis; a productive combination for student, academic and general reader.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Times Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\" \u003ci\u003eSexology in Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is an excellent collection of the kind of focused studies that have made the history of sexuality such a dynamic research field in recent years.an admirable collection – informative, well-organized and intellectually stimulating\" \u003ci\u003eChandak Sengoopta, University of Manchester, Medical History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Contributors. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Rita Felski.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. A Dangerous New Science.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Transformations: Subjects, Categories and Cures in Krafft-Ebing's Sexology: Merl Storr.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. It's What You Do With It That Counts: Interpretations of Otto Weininger: Judy Greenway.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. The Hidden Romance of Sexual Science: Eugenics, the Nation and the Making of Modern Feminism: Carolyn Burdett.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Scientific Racism and the Making of the Homosexual Body: Siobhan Somerville.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Labelling Bodies.\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Symonds's History, Ellis's Heredity: Sexual Inversion: Joseph Bristow.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. 'Educating the Eye': The Tattooed Prostitute: Jane Caplan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Transsexuals and the Transsexualists: Inversion and the Emergence of Transsexual Subjectivity: Jay Prosser.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III. Constructing Desires.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Feminist Reconfigurations of Heterosexuality in the 1920s: Lesley Hall.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Sex, Love and the Homosexual Body in Early Sexology: Suzanne Raitt.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Havelock Ellis, Sigmund Freud and the State: Discourses of Homosexual Identity in Interwar Britain: Chris Waters.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV. Cultural Perversions.\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Trial by Sexology?: Maud Allan, Salome and the 'Cult of the Clitoris' Case: Lucy Bland.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. 'Acts of Female Indecency': Sexology's Intervention in Legislating Lesbianism: Laura Doan.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. 'Sex is an Accident': Feminism, Science and the Radical Sexual Theory of Urania 1915-1940: Alison Oram.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404348334423,"sku":"9780745619828","price":49.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sexology-in-culture-9780745619828","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}