Sexology Uncensored: The Documents of Sexual Science

by Lucy Bland (Editor)

Other authorsLaura Doan (Editor)
Book, 1999

Publication

University of Chicago Press (1999), Edition: 2nd, 278 pages

Collection

Content and Summary Info

Bisexual Content: This work has a broad scope but contains a small amount of bisexual-specific content. It contains a section titled, "Transsexuality and Bisexuality."

Intersecting Marginalized Identities: Includes transgender-specific content and a section on race and sexuality.

Publisher's Summary: ...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.

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