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LATEST ADDITIONS (updated 12 October 2008)
- Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile: Essays on Gender, Sexuality and Culture by Ruth Vanita (Yoda Press, 2006)
- Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Contemporary Cultures, ed. David A. Gerstner (London and New York: Routledge, 2006)
- Sex Variant Woman: The Life of Jeanette Foster Howard by Joanne Passet (Da Capo Press Inc. 2008). Review by Craig Young
- Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700-1800 (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) ed. by Chris Mounsey and Caroline Gonda (Bucknell University Press, 2007)
- Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from their Beginnings to Stonewall by T. Waugh. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.
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Gay and Lesbian Historical Fiction by Norman. W. Jones (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) Browse contents
- A Lesbian History of Britain: Love and Sex Between Women Since 1500 by Rebecca Jennings (Greenwood World Publishing, September 2008). Guardian Review
- Tomboys and Bachelor Girls: A Lesbian History of Post-war Britain, 1945-71 by Rebecca Jennings (Manchester University Press, July 2007). Short review and link to an interview with Rebecca Jennings. Extract
- Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History, by Scott Herring (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
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 - The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe edited by Kenneth Borris and George S. Rousseau (Routledge, 2007). The Sciences of Homosexuality in Early Modern Europe investigates early modern scientific accounts of same-sex desires and the shapes they assumed in everyday life. It explores the significance of those representations and interpretations from around 1450 to 1750, long before the term homosexuality was coined and accrued its current range of cultural meanings. This collection establishes that efforts to produce scientific explanations for same-sex desires and sexual behaviours are not a modern invention, but have long been characteristic of European thought. The sciences of antiquity had posited various types of same-sexual affinities rooted in singular natures. These concepts were renewed, elaborated, and reassessed from the late medieval scientific revival to the early Enlightenment. The deviance of such persons seemed outwardly inscribed upon their bodies, documented in treatises and case studies. It was attributed to diverse inborn causes such as distinctive anatomies or physiologies, and embryological, astrological, or temperamental factors. Available from Amazon UK or Amazon.com
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Modern American Queer History ed. Allida M. Black (Temple University Press, 2001). Also available from Amazon.com
- Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance by A. B. Christa Schwarz (Indiana University Press, 2003). Also available from Amazon.com. Studies of black gay writers Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay and Richard Bruce Nugent
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Harvard's Secret Court: The Savage 1920 Purge of Campus Homosexuals by William Wright (St. Martin's Griffin, 2006). Also available from Amazon.com
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Deep Gossip by Henry Abelove (University of Minnesota Press, 2005). Henry Abelove, literary critic, historian and pioneer in queer studies, offers interdisciplinary views on the connections between politics, culture, and sexuality. Deep Gossip addresses the willful misreading of Freud's views on homosexuality among American psychoanalysts; reconsiders sexual practice during England's eighteenth century; assesses the contemporary relevance of Thoreau's Walden, particularly to queer politics; and traces the emergence of a queer critique of previous approaches to lesbian and gay history. Also available from Amazon.com
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Other Objects of Desire: Collectors and Collecting Queerly ed. Michael Camille and Adrian Rifkin (Blackwell Publishers, 2001). A study of gay and lesbian collectors, including Jean, Duc de Berry, Christina of Sweden, Frederick the Great, Warhol and Mapplethorpe. Also available from Amazon.com
- Anthropological, Legal and Medical Studies on Pederasty in Europe by Benjamin Tarnowsky (Fredonia Books, 2001)
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- Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement by Marcia M. Gallo (Seal Press, 2006)
- Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Hal Call Chronicles And the Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation by James T. Sears (Haworth Gay and Lesbian Studies, Harrington Park Press, 2006)
- Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History in America by Marc Stein (Editor) (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2003). Also available from Amazon.com
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