English Literary Sexology

HEIKE BAUER is Lecturer in English Literature and Gender Studies at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and Director of the Birkbeck Institute of Gender and Sexuality. Her research interests include nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature and culture, and the histories and theories of sexuality, gender and 'race'. She is editor of Women and Cross-Dressing. 

Contents List of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgements A Note on Translation Introduction Disciplining Sex and Subject: Translation, Biography and the Emergence of Sexology in Germany How to Imagine Sexuality? English Sexology and the Literary Tradition When Sex is Sexual Difference: Feminist Inversion and the Limits of Same-Sex Theory Stephen Gordon Super-Invert: The Well of Loneliness Coda Bibliography Index