Sexology in Culture examines the impact of key writings by sexologists 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?

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.