Introduction: What are stereotypes and why use texts to study them? -- Male stereotypes of female sexuality in fin-de-siecle Vienna -- The Nietzsche murder case; or, what makes dangerous philosophies dangerous -- The Hottentot and the prostitute: Toward an iconography of female sexuality -- Black sexuality and modern consciousness -- On the nexus of blackness and madness -- The madness of the Jews -- Race and madness in I.J. Singer's The family Carnovsky -- Sigmund Freud and the Jewish joke -- Sexology, psychoanalysis, and degeneration -- The mad as artists.