Jo Somerset reads between the lines to decipher a gay couple’s secret life in Leicester during the twentieth century.
Tag: queer history
Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire within Marriage
Her Neighbor’s Wife traces the stories of hundreds of women who struggled to balance marriage and same-sex desire in the postwar United States.
Plausible Crime Stories: The Legal History of Sexual Offences in Mandate Palestine
This first study of the legal history of sex offences in Mandate Palestine pioneers a new socio-cultural perspective on evidence: plausibility.
The Closet: The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Intimacy
Why was the eighteenth-century closet associated with illicit and transgressive sexuality?
The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation: Male Homosexual Politics in 1970s West Germany
Gay liberation was never only about pride.
Lady Chatterley’s Lover: A Queer Case
The Chatterley trial hinged on the disavowing or defending of ‘deviant’ sexual acts within the novel, making it a distinctly queer case.
Trans America: A Counter-History
Despite the prominence of what is now called trans in contemporary culture, there is a shortage of comprehensive trans histories.
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