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Contents: Introducing bisexuality -- Science and the invention of (bi)sexuality -- "The unsolved figure in the carpet" -- The pink threat -- The repressed returns -- Sexuality and subjection -- The queer intervention -- Beyond sexuality.

This study is based on an analysis of more than 2,300 court cases concerning acts of bestiality and same-sex sexuality in rural and urban Sweden 1880-1950. Other written sources are forensic psychiatric statements, mental hospital records, material from...

Cultuurhistorische studie over de vroege seksuologie, opgehangen aan de psychiater Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902), auteur van het klassieke werk Psychopathia sexualis.

Na een historische beschrijving van het beeld van lesbische vrouwen in de oude Egyptische, Griekse en Romeinse literatuur en kunst, volgt een analyse (aan de hand van de brief van Paulus aan de Romeinen) van de manier waarop in de vroeg-christelijke tij...

In the 14th century, a considerable number of men in Germany and Switzerland were executed for committing sodomy. In the 17th century, simply speaking of the act was cause for censorship. Here, in the first ever history of sodomy in these countries, Hel...

In this book of historical detection, Mark D. Jordan explores the invention of Sodomy by medieval Christendom, examining its conceptual foundations in theology and gauging its impact on Christian sexual ethics both then and now. This book is for everyon...

Discussions of sexuality in Asia and the Pacific have long been tinged with conceptions of the exotic Orient. Examining a world of erotic encounter between European, Asian, and Pacific people, these essays explore how sexual practices and sexual meaning...

Geschiedenis van het Britse seksuele leven in de 18de en 19de eeuw. Ook aandacht voor homoseksualiteit.

This book centers on a city that is not generally associated with a vibrant gay and lesbian culture, and it shows that a community was forming long before the Stonewall rebellion. In this book, Marc Stein brings to life the neighborhood bars and clubs w...

Contents: An erotics of unnaming -- Recovering the past : problems of identity -- On naming female same-sex behaviors -- Physical intimacy and the urotics of unnaming -- The demise of tacit knowledge -- The textual dissemination of sexual knowledge -- R...