Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them.
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The Queer Case of Catherine/Giovanni Vizzani
What does the case of Catherine/Giovanni Vizzani reveal about gender identity and sexual desire in the Eighteenth Century?
Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires
A history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire-building around the world.
Histories of the Transgender Child
Challenging the idea that today’s trans kids are a brand new generation.
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