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CONTENTS Acknowledgements page v Chapters 1. Introduction 1 2. The Passive Sex: The Naturalization of Gender Distinctions 14 The Emergence of 'Womanhood' 14 The Body as a Machine 20 The Sexualization of the Human Body 29 Metaphors of Female Pathology: Menstruation and Menopause 40 The Medical Discourse of Hysteria 48 Frail Brides and Wicked Wives: The Regulation of Marital Sexuality 52 3. Sexual Desire and Human Procreation 62 The Naturalization of 'Sexual Desire' 62 Egg and Semen: Medical Representations of Conception 69 The Pregnant Womb 78 The Body Within: The Foetus in Gestation 80 The Lore of Prenatal Education 93 4. 'Four Hundred Million Siblings': The Regulation of 'Population' 102 The Emergence of 'Population' 103 Eugenics and Racial Hygiene 109 The Regulation of Births 116 5. 'Civilization is Syphilization': The Cultural Meanings of 'Disease' 122 'The Body is a Battlefield': Hygiene and the Concept of Disease 123 Vll V111 CONTENTS 'The Poison of the Plum'; Venereal Disease 126 'A Filthy Habit'; The Inverted Homosexual 137 6. The Cultural Construction of 'Youth' 146 The Emergence of 'Youth' 146 Endocrinology and the Hormones of Femininity and Masculini0' 150 'Maladie d'Epoque'; Sexual Neurasthenia 162 'The Evil Habit'; Medical Discourses of Masturbation 165 7. Epilogue: The Regulation of Sexuality in the People's Republic 180 Bibliography 187 Character List 222 Index 229 ...