Sexology Uncensored: The Documents of Sexual Science - Tapa dura

The early pioneers of the new field of sexology examined and classified sexual behaviours, identities and relations. For years much of the material has been "censored" in the sense that it has been difficult to obtain. This text brings together many of those documents of the modern science of sexuality. The extracts cover a variety of topics, including gender and sexual difference, homosexuality, trans-sexuality and bisexuality, heterosexuality, marriage and sex manuals, reproductive control, eugenics, race and various sexual proclivities.

Lucy Bland is Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies at the University of North London.

Laura Doan is Professor of English at the State University of New York.

Laura Doan is Professor of Cultural History and Sexuality Studies in English and American Studies at the University of Manchester, and co-director of the Center for the Study of Sexuality and Culture. She is author of" Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture" (2001) and editor of several collections on the history of sexuality and lesbian studies. Jane Garrity is Associate Professor of English and Senior Scholar in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of "Step-Daughters of England: British Women Modernists and the National Imaginary" (2003).