After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China

By Howard Chiang Asian Sexualities, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Trans

After Eunuchs tells a history of sex change in modern China.

Desire Work: Ex-Gay and Pentecostal Masculinity in South Africa

By Melissa Hackman African Sexualities, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

Desire Work documents the lives of mostly white, ex-gay Pentecostal men in Cape Town, South Africa.

Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China

By Hongwei Bao Asian Sexualities, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Qay identity and queer activism in contemporary China from a queer Marxist perspective.

Steel Closets: Voices of Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Steelworkers

By Anne Balay 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

If scholars look for what we think of as gay people, we’ll miss many of the queer pleasures and possibilities that exist.

Sex, Time and Place: Queer Histories of London, c.1850 to the Present

By Simon Avery LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

How do we ‘do’ queer history and how might it be constituted in multi- and interdisciplinary terms?

Transnational Homosexuals in Communist Poland: Cross-Border Flows in Gay and Lesbian Magazines

By Lukasz Szulc LGBTQ, Modern Europe, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Early gay and lesbian activism in Poland formed around the publication of DIY magazines.

Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony Comstock

By Amy Werbel 20th and 21st Century United States, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Lust on Trial chronicles intensive efforts to purify American sexuality (1873-1915), and their epic failure.