LGBT History Books

New and Published Books

1. The Routledge History of Sex and the Body, 1500 to the Present

   Edited by Sarah Toulalan, Kate Fisher

   Series: Routledge Histories

   The Routledge History of Sex and the Body provides an overview of the main themes surrounding the history of sexuality from 1500 to the present day. The history of sex and the body is an expanding field in which vibrant debate on, for instance, the history of homosexuality, is developing. This book...

   Published March 13th 2013 by Routledge
2. Homoeroticism in Imperial China

   A Sourcebook

   Edited by Mark Stevenson, Cuncun Wu

   Bringing together over sixty pre-modern Chinese primary sources on same-sex desire in English translation, Homoeroticism in Imperial China is an important addition to the growing field of the comparative history of sexuality and provides a window onto the continuous cultural relevance of same-sex...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
3. Public and Popular History

   Edited by Jerome De Groot

   This interdisciplinary collection considers public and popular history within a global framework, seeking to understand considerations of local, domestic histories and the ways they interact with broader discourses. Grounded in particular local and national situations, the book addresses the issues...

   Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
4. Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600 - 1950

   Edited by Raquel A.G. Reyes, William G. Clarence-Smith

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   Non-reproductive sex practices in Asia have historically been a source of fascination, prurient or otherwise, for Westerners, who being either Catholic or Protestant, were often struck by what they perceived as the widespread promiscuity and licentiousness of native inhabitants. Graphic...

   Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge
5. Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement

   By Marc Stein

   Series: American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century

   Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement provides a new narrative history of U.S. gay and lesbian activism, drawing on primary research in the field and the best scholarship on the history of the gay and lesbian movement. Focusing on four decades of social, cultural, and political change in the...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
6. Transgender Migrations

   The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition

   Edited by Trystan Cotten

   Series: New Directions in American History

   Transgender Migrations brings together a top-notch collection of emerging and established scholars to examine the way that the term "migration" can be used not only to look at the way trans bodies migrate from one gender to the (an?) other, but the way that trans people migrate in the larger...

   Published July 19th 2011 by Routledge
7. The History of Sexuality in Europe

   A Sourcebook and Reader

   Edited by Anna Clark

   Series: Routledge Readers in History

   The History of Sexuality in Europe: A Sourcebook and Reader is a dynamic introduction to the latest debates in the history of Sexuality in Europe. It begins with an introduction, "The Magnetic Poetry Kit of Sex," that surveys the field of sexuality and introduces the new concept of sexual grammar....

   Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge
8. Edwin and John

   A Personal History of the American South

   By James Sears

   In Edwin and John: A Personal History of the American South, award-winning author James T. Sears interweaves diaries, letters and poems to craft an innovative first-person narrative history that details the hard realities of growing up gay in the South during the early decades of the...

   Published March 12th 2009 by Routledge
9. Sexuality in World History

   By Peter N. Stearns

   Series: Themes in World History

   'Expansive and accessible, Peter Stearns' Sexuality in World History offers a much needed introduction to histories of sexuality from a global perspective.' – Mary Spongberg- Head of Department of Modern History, Macquarie University, USA This book examines sexuality in the past, and explores how...

   Published February 15th 2009 by Routledge
10. Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty

    Boys Were Their Gods

    By Andrew Lear, Eva Cantarella

    This lavishly illustrated book brings together, for the first time, all of the different ways in which vase-painting portrays or refers to pederasty, from scenes of courtship, foreplay, and sex, to scenes of Zeus with his boy-love Ganymede, to painted inscriptions praising the beauty of boys. ...

    Published April 15th 2008 by Routledge