Introduction George Chauncey, Jr., Martin Duberman,
Martha Vicinus
The Ancient World
Revolutions, Universals, and Sexual Categories John Boswell
Sex Before Sexuality: Pederasty, Politics, and Power in Classical
Athens David M. Halperin
Sexual Matters: Rethinking Sexuality in History Robert
Padgug
Preindustrial Societies
Lesbian Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Judith C.
Brown
Homosexuality and the State in Late Imperial China Vivien W. Ng
Homosexuality in the Renaissance: Behavior, Identity, and Artistic
Expression James M. Saslow
Lesbians in American Indian Cultures Paula Gunn Allen
Male Love in Early Modern Japan: A Literary Depiction of the
"Youth" Paul Gordon Schalow
The Birth of the Queen: Sodomy and the Emergence of Gender Equality
in Modern Culture, 1660–1750 Randolph Trumbach
Sodomy in the Dutch Republic During the Eighteenth Century Arend H.
Huussen, Jr.
The Nineteenth Century
"Writhing Bedfellows" in Antebellum South Carolina: Historical
Interpretation and the Politics of Evidence Martin Duberman
Knights-Errant and Gothic Seducers: The Representation of Male
Friendship in Mid-Nineteenth Century America Robert K. Martin
"She Even Chewed Tobacco": A Pictorial Narrative of Passing Women
in America San Francisco Lesbian and Gay History Project
Inverts, Perverts, and Mary-Annes: Male Prostitution and the
Regulation of Homosexuality in England in the Nineteenth and Early
Twentieth Centuries Jeffrey Weeks
Distance and Desire: English Boarding School Friendships, 1870–1920
Martha Vicinus
Early Twentieth Century
Iconography of a Scandal: Political Cartoons and the Eulenburg
Affair in Wilhelmin Germany James D. Steakley
Discourses of Sexuality and Subjectivity: The New Woman, 1870–1936
Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
The Mythic Mannish Lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman Esther
Newton
Christian Brotherhood or Sexual Perversion? Homosexual Identities
and the Construction of Sexual Boundaries in the World War I Era
George Chauncey, Jr.
A Spectacle in Color: The Lesbian and Gay Subculture of Jazz Age
Harlem Eric Garber
Paris Lesbianism and the Politics of Reaction, 1900–1940 Shari
Benstock
Russia's Gay Literature and Culture: The Impact of the October
Revolution Simon Karlinsky
Swastika, Pink Triangle, and Yellow Star: The Destruction of
Sexology and the Persecution of Homosexuals in Nazi Germany Erwin
J. Haeberle
World War II and the Postwar Era
Marching to a Different Drummer: Lesbian and Gay GIs in World War
II Allan Berube
"Imagine My Surprise": Women's Relationships in Mid-Twentieth
Century America Leila J. Rupp
Migrancy and Male Sexuality on the South African Gold Mines T.
Dunbar Moodie (with Vivienne Ndatshe and British Sibuyi)
Oral History and the Study of Sexuality in the Lesbian Community:
Buffalo, New York, 1940–1960 Madeline Davis and Elizabeth Lapovsky
Kennedy
Homosexuality, Homophobia, and Revolution: Notes Toward an
Understanding of the Cuban Lesbian and Gay Male Experience Lourdes
Arguelles and B. Ruby Rich
Gay Politics and Community in San Francisco Since World War II John
D'Emilio
Notes
Notes on Contributors
Martin Bauml Dubermanis a historian, biographer, playwright, and
gay rights activist. He has written more than 25 books, plays, and
anthologies, including Hold Tight Gently-Michael Callen,Essex
Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS, Hidden from History-
Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, and Jews Queers Germans. He is
Professor of History Emeritus at Herbert Lehman College.
Martha Vicinusis an LGBT scholar, anti-war activist, and professor
ofEnglish literatureandWomen's Studies. Her books include Lesbian
Subjects- A Feminist Studies Reader, Hidden From History-
Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, and Suffer and Be Still- Women
in the Victorian Age. She serves as the Eliza M. Mosher
Distinguished University Professor of English, Women's Studies, and
History at theUniversity of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
George Chaunceyis a scholar of twentieth-century U.S. history and
lesbian and gay history.He is co-director of theYale Research
Initiative on the History of Sexualitiesand has served as the chair
of the History Department, chair ofLGBT Studies, and Director of
Graduate Studies and Undergraduate Studies forAmerican Studies. He
is author ofGayNew York- Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of
the Gay Male World, 1890-1940andWhy Marriage? The History Shaping
Today's Debate Over Gay Equality.
Winner of two Lambda Rising Awards
"A landmark of a book and a landmark of ideas that will shatter
ignorance and delusion."—Catharine Stimpson, University Professor
and Dean Emerita of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New
York University
“A rich offering… solid and intriguing. One comes away from reading
this collection… with fresh, extended, and perhaps more sensitive
conceptions of sexuality itself.”—Washington Post Book World
“Convincingly demonstrates the legitimacy of gay and lesbian
history, reveals its extraordinary richness, and sets the agenda
for future research.”—George Stambolian, editor of Men on Men
“Ground-breaking.”—Publishers Weekly
“The juxtaposition of diverse perspectives and research crossing
boundaries of race, gender, culture, and time encourages a lively
dialogue. Highly recommended for history collections, and
especially gay studies.”—Library Journal
“A treasure… major, informative, and fascinating.”—The Advocate
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