Alison M Downham Moore is associate professor in modern European history and humanities at Western Sydney University. Her books include Gut Feeling and Digestive Health in Nineteenth-Century Literature, History and Culture (2018), co-edited with Manon Mathias; Sexual Myths of Modernity: Sadism, Masochism and Historical Teleology (2015); and Frigidity: An Intellectual History (2011) co-authored with Peter Cryle.