The twentieth century in Europe was an urban century: it was shaped by life in, and the view
from, the street. Women were not liberated in legislatures, but liberated themselves in …

This first major study of a curiously neglected term in the history of sexuality will intrigue
students, scholars and enthusiasts alike. The authors take us through a journey across four …

The subject of murder has always held a particular fascination for us. But, since at least the
nineteenth century, we have seen the murderer as different from the ordinary citizen—a …

In US popular media, individuals who identify as asexual have faced a flood of scrutinizing
questions and suspicions about what exactly asexuality is, what they do and don't do, and …

The notion of sexual sadism emerged from nineteenth-century alienist attempts to imagine
the pleasure of the torturer or mass killer. This was a time in which sexuality was mapped to …

This groundbreaking text interrogates the constructed boundary between therapy and
violence, by examining therapeutic practice and discourse through the lens of a psychologist …

Psychiatry's problematic framing of femininity, women's bodies, and sexuality has attracted
much condemnation (Caplan & Cosgrove, 2004; Frith, 2013; Ussher, 2011). The intersection …

This thesis makes a contribution to the burgeoning study of the sexual identity category and
sexual orientation of asexuality by arguing for its political valence and feminist potentiality …

In June 2018, the 11th version of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and
Related HealthProblems was published effective as of 2022. This new classification …

Scholars have begun to use the term compulsory sexuality to describe the fact that
contemporary sexual norms may compel people to identify as desiring subjects, take up …