A Cultural History of Sexuality in the Age of Empire

Chiara Beccalossi is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of European Discourses, University of Queensland, Australia, and author of Female Sexual Inversion: Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology. Ivan Crozier is Senior Lecturer in the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh.

1 Introduction: The Cultural History of Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century
Chiara Beccalossi (University of Queensland, Australia) and Ivan Crozier (University of Edinburgh, UK)

2 Heterosexuality: An Unfettered Capacity for Degeneracy
Chad Parkhill and Elizabeth Stephens (both University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA)

3 Homosexuality: European and Colonial Encounters
Sean Brady (Birkbeck College, London, UK)

4 Sexual Variations
Lisa Downing (University of Exeter, UK)

5 Sex, Religion, and the Law: The Regulation of Sexual Behaviors, 1820-1920
Louise A. Jackson (University of Edinburgh, UK)

6 Sex, Medicine and Disease: From Reproduction to Sexuality
Chiara Beccalossi (University of Queensland, AUSTRALIA)

7 Sex, Popular Beliefs and Culture: Discourses on the Sexual Child
Gail Hawkes (University of New England, Australia) and R. Danielle Egan (St Lawrence University in Canton, USA)

8 Prostitution: The Age of Empires
Raelene Frances (Monash University, AUSTRALIA)

9 Erotica: Sexual Imagery, Empires, and Colonies
Ruth Ford (La Trobe University, AUSTRALIA)

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