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Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the prairies. Focusing on the five major urban centres: Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, Edmonton, and Calgary, Prairi...

Sexual attitudes and behaviour have changed radically in Britain between the Victorian era and the twenty-first century. However, Lesley A. Hall reveals how slow and halting the processes of change have been, and how many continuities have persisted und...

Contemporary efforts to treat sex offenders are rooted in the post-Second World War era in which an unshakable faith in science convinced everyday English-Canadian parents that pedophilia could be "cured." Strangers in Our Midst explores the popularizat...

Tracking the changing representation of female gender-crossing in the press, this text explores real-life case studies from the British tabloids of women who successfully passed as men in everyday life.

Includes extracts from works by 95 British women, covering issues such as marriage, sexual desire, extra-marital relationships, the plight of the single woman, same-sex relationships, birth control and abortion, prostitution and venereal disease, and se...