The history of sexuality has progressed from its earlier marginal status to a central place in historiography. Not only are its foci of research intriguing, but the field has initiated important theoretical advances for the discipline as a whole, especially through the work of Michel Foucault. The editors of this new four-volume Routledge collection define sexuality in a broader sense than sexual identity, to include sexual emotions, desires, acts, representations, and relationships. And while the history of sexuality began in the American and European spheres, the volumes also integrate studies of Asian, African, and other sexual cultures. Similarly, the collection integrates studies from early periods (such as classical Greece and Rome and the medieval era) with modern histories of sexuality.
The editors of this new four-volume Routledge collection define sexuality in a broader sense than sexual identity, to include sexual emotions, desires, acts, representations, and relationships. And while the history of sexuality began in the American and European spheres, the volumes also integrate studies of Asian, African, and other sexual cultures. Similarly, the collection integrates studies from early periods (such as classical Greece and Rome and the medieval era) with modern histories of sexuality.
Volume I: The Construction of Sexual Knowledge
1. Gayle Rubin, ‘Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality’, in Carole S. Vance (ed.), Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality (Pandora, 1992), pp. 267–93.
2. Adrienne Rich, ‘Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence’, in Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, and David Halperin (eds.), The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (Routledge, 1993), pp. 227–54.
3. John D’Emilio, ‘Capitalism and Gay Identity’, in Ann Snitow et al., Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (Monthly Review Press, 1983), pp. 100–13.
4. Jennifer Terry, ‘Theorizing Deviant Historiography’, Differences, 1991, 3, 2, 55–74.
5. David Halperin, ‘Forgetting Foucault: Acts, Identities, and the History of Sexuality’, Representations, 1998, 63, 93–120.
6. Harry Oosterhuis, ‘Sexual Modernity in the Works of Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Albert Moll’, Medical History, 2012, 56, 2, 133–55.
7. Siobhan Somerville, ‘Scientific Racism and the Emergence of the Homosexual Body’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 1994, 5, 2, 243–66.
8. Sabine Fruhstuck, ‘Managing the Truth of Sex in Imperial Japan’, Journal of Asian Studies, 2000, 59, 2, 332.
9. Lisa Duggan, ‘The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology, and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America’, Signs, 1993, 18, 4, 791–814.
10. David Halperin, ‘How to Do the History of Male Homosexuality’, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2000, 6, 1, 87–123.
11. Judith M. Bennett, ‘"Lesbian-Like" and the Social History of Lesbianisms’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2000, 9, 1/2, 1.
12. Siobhan Somerville, ‘Queer Loving’, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2005, 11, 335–70.
13. Anjali Arondekar, ‘Without a Trace: Sexuality and the Colonial Archive’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2005, 14, 1/2, 10–27.
14. Marc Epprecht, ‘Sexuality, Africa, History’, American Historical Review, 2009, 114, 5, 1258–
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15. Leon Antonio Rocha, ‘Xing: The Discourse of Sex and Human Nature in Modern China’, Gender & History 22, 2010, 3, 603–28.
16. Matthew H. Sommer, ‘The Gendered Body in the Qing Courtroom’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2013, 22, 2, 281–311.
Volume II: Beyond the Binary
17. Anna Clark, ‘Twilight Moments’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2005, 14, 1/2, 139–60.
18. Maeve B. Callan, ‘Of Vanishing Fetuses and Maidens Made-Again: Abortion, Restored Virginity, and Similar Scenarios in Medieval Irish Hagiography and Penitentials’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2012, 21, 2, 282–96.
19. Ann Twinam, ‘Mothers: Pregnant Virgins, Abandoned Women, and the Public and Private Face of Sexuality’, Public Lives, Private Secrets: Gender, Honor, Sexuality and Illegitimacy in Colonial Spanish America (Stanford University Press, 1999), pp. 59–88.
20. Sahar Amer, ‘Medieval Arab Lesbians and Lesbian-Like Women’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2009, 18, 2, 215–36.
21. Randolph Trumbach, ‘Sex, Gender, and Sexual Identity in Modern Culture: Male Sodomy and Female Prostitution in Enlightenment London’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 1991, 2, 2, 186–203.
22. Megan H. Glick, ‘Of Sodomy and Cannibalism: Dehumanisation, Embodiment and the Rhetorics of Same-Sex and Cross-Species Contagion’, Gender & History, 2011, 23, 2, 266–82.
23. Susan Stryker, ‘Transgender History, Homonormativity, and Disciplinarity’, Radical History Review, 2008, 100, 145–57.
24. Kathleen Brown, ‘"Changed … into the Fashion of Man": The Politics of Sexual Difference in a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Settlement’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 1995, 6, 2, 171–93.
25. Charlotte Furth, ‘Androgenous Males and Deficient Females: Biology and Gender Boundaries in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century China’, Late Imperial China, 1988, 9, 2, 1–31.
26. Joanne Meyerowitz, ‘Sex Change and the Popular Press: Historical Notes on Transsexuality in the United States, 1930–1955’, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 1998, 4, 159–87.
27. Aniruddha Dutta, ‘An Epistemology of Collusion: Hijras, Kothis and the Historical (Dis)continuity of Gender/Sexual Identities in Eastern India’, Gender & History, 2012, 24, 3, 825–49.
28. Ann Stoler, ‘Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers: European Identities and the Cultural Politics of Exclusion’, Comparative Studies in Society & History, 1992, 34, 3, 514–52.
29. D. Nirenberg, ‘Conversion, Sex, and Segregation: Jews and Christians in Medieval Spain’, American Historical Review, 2002, 107, 4, 1065–93.
30. Martha Hodes, ‘The Sexualization of Reconstruction Politics: White Women and Black Men in the South after the Civil War’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 1993, 3, 402–17.
31. Nayan Shah, ‘Between "Oriental Depravity" and "Natural Degenerates": Spatial Borderlands and the Making of Ordinary Americans’, American Quarterly, 2005, 57, 703–25.
32. Shefali Chandra, ‘Whiteness on the Margins of Native Patriarchy: Race, Caste, Sexuality, and the Agenda of Transnational Studies’, Feminist Studies, 2011, 37, 1, 127–53.
33. Anne Fausto-Sterling, ‘The Five Sexes: Why Male and Female are Not Enough’, The Sciences, 1993, 33, 2.
Volume III: Disciplining Sexuality
34. Amy Richlin, ‘Not Before Homosexuality: The Materiality of the Cinaedus and the Roman Law Against Love Between Men’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 1993, 3, 4, 523–73.
35. Jacques Rosslaud, ‘Prostitution, Youth and Society in the Towns of Southeastern France in the Fifteenth Century’, in Robert Forster and Orest Ranum (eds.), Deviants and the Abandoned in French Society (Johns Hopkins Press, 1978).
36. Marc Boone, ‘State Power and Illicit Sexuality: The Persecution of Sodomy in Late Medieval Bruges’, Journal of Medieval History, 1996, 22, 138.
37. Ruth Mazo Karras, ‘Prostitution and the Question of Sexual Identity in Medieval Europe’, Journal of Women’s History, 1999, 11, 139–77.
38. André Fernandez, ‘The Repression of Sexual Behavior by the Aragonese Inquisition Between 1560 and 1700’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 1997, 7, 4, 469–501.
39. Thomas A. Foster, ‘The Sexual Abuse of Black Men Under American Slavery’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2011, 20, 3, 445–64.
40. Darlene Clark Hine, ‘Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West’, Signs, 1989, 14, 4, 912–20.
41. Theo van der Meer, ‘Tribades on Trial: Female Same-Sex offenders in Late Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 1991, 1, 3, 424–45.
42. Afsaneh Najmabadi, ‘Types, Acts or What? Regulation of Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Iran’, in Kathryn Babayan and Afsaneh Najmabadi (eds.), Islamicate Sexualities: Translations Across Temporal Geographies of Desire (Harvard University Press, 2008), pp. 275–96.
43. Judith Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian Society (Cambridge University Press, 1982), pp. 11–47.
44. Edward Ross Dickinson, ‘Biopolitics, Fascism, Democracy: Reflections On Our Discourse Concerning "Modernity"’, Central European History, 2004, 37, 1–48.
45. Philippa Levine, ‘Venereal Disease, Prostitution, and the Politics of Empire: The Case of British India’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 1994, 4, 4, 579–602.
46. Atina Grossman, ‘Abortion and Economic Crisis: The 1931 Campaign Against Paragraph 218 in Germany’, New German Critique, 1978, 14, 119.
47. Dagmar Herzog, ‘Sex and the Third Reich’, Sex Before Fascism (Princeton University Press, 2007), pp, 1–63.
48. Pamela Scully, ‘Rape, Race, and Colonial Culture: The Sexual Politics of Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Cape’, American Historical Review, 1995, 100, 2, 335–60.
49. Lynn M. Thomas, ‘Imperial Concerns and: State Efforts to Regulate Clitoridectomy and Eradicate Abortion in Meru, Kenya, c. 1910–1950’, Journal of African History, 1998, 39, 1, 121–45.
50. John Lie, ‘The Transformation of Sexual Work in 20th-Century Korea’, Gender & Society, 1995, 9, 3, 310–27.
Volume IV: Pleasure, Desire, Domination
51. Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, ‘The Female World of Love and Ritual’, Signs, 1975, 1, 1–30.
52. Nancy Cott, ‘Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790–1850’, in Kathy Peiss (ed.), Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality: Documents and Essays (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), pp. 131–40.
53. Thomas Laqueur, ‘Orgasm, Generation, and the Politics of Reproductive Biology’, Representations, 1986, 14, 1–41.
54. Jessamyn Neuhaus, ‘The Importance of Being Orgasmic: Sexuality, Gender, and Marital Sex Manuals in the United States, 1920–1963’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2000, 9, 4, 447–73.
55. Kathy Peiss, ‘Charity Girls and City Pleasures: Historical Notes on Working Class Sexuality, 1880–1920’, in Ann Snitow et al. (eds.), Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality (Monthly Review Press, 1983), pp. 74–87.
56. Pete Sigal, ‘The Bath’, The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture (Duke University Press, 2011), pp. 1–28.
57. Ramón A. Gutiérrez, ‘Women on Top: The Love Magic of the Indian Witches of New Mexico’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2007, 16, 3, 373–90.
58. Janet Afary, ‘On the Road to an Ethos of Monogamous, Heterosexual Marriage’, Sexual Politics in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 111–41.
59. Greg Carleton, ‘Writing-Reading the Sexual Revolution in the Early Soviet Union’, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 1997, 8, 2, 229–55.
60. Jean Allman, ‘Rounding up Spinsters: Gender Chaos and Unmarried Women in Colonial Asante’, Journal of African History, 1996, 37, 2, 195–214.
61. Z. Achmat, ‘"Apostles of Civilised Vice": "Immoral Practices" and "Unnatural Vice" in South African Prisons and Compounds, 1890–1920’, Social Dynamics, 1993, 19, 2, 92–110.
62. Judith Gay, ‘"Mummies and Babies" and Friends and Lovers in Lesotho’, Journal of Homosexuality, 1985, 11, 3–4, 93–116.
63. Kenda Mutongi, ‘"Dear Dolly’s Advice": Representations of Youth, Courtship, and Sexualities in Africa, 1960–1980’, International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2000, 33, 1, 1–23.
64. Martha Vicinus, ‘A Scheme of Romantic Friendship’: Love and Same-Sex Marriage’, Intimate Friends (University of Chicago Press, 2004), pp. 5–30.
