Studying the language of queer history gives us insight into past efforts to control the social value of gender and sexuality by defining their meaning.
Tag: literature
The Italian Invert: A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions To Emile Zola
A very queer tale, The Italian Invert is one man’s story of love affairs, sexual adventures, and the pursuit of happiness at the end of the nineteenth century.
The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature
The Shapes of Fancy stages an impassioned defense of the inherently desirous nature of reading.
Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture
Queer China reveals a vibrant picture of queer communities and cultures since their inception in post-Mao China.
Sex, Time and Place: Queer Histories of London, c.1850 to the Present
How do we ‘do’ queer history and how might it be constituted in multi- and interdisciplinary terms?
The World and Other Unpublished Works of Radclyffe Hall
New archival materials that broaden and complicate our understanding of Radclyffe Hall.
Remembrance of Things Past: A Novelist Reflects on the Politics of Intergenerational Sex
Sarah Schulman on changing attitudes towards intergenerational sex within the queer community.