Queer Masculinities, 1550-1800: Siting Same-Sex Desire in the Early Modern World

ISBN-13: 9781403920447 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 257 str.

Katherine O'Donnell; Michael O'Rourke; George Rousseau

Opis

This book offers the most up to the minute snapshot of scholarship on queer/gay historiographies in a number of geographical regions in western Europe, Asia and the US. It features the work of the most established scholars in the field of the history of same-sex desire and promises to take the study of same-sex relations in the early modern period in radical new directions.

Spis treści

Preface; G.Rousseau Introduction; M.O'Rourke Searching in the Dark: Towards a Historiography of Queer Early Modern and Enlightenment (Anglo) Ireland; C.Mounsey Faust's Transgressions: Male-Male Desire in Early Modern Germany; R.D.Tobin The Historiography of Male-Male Love in Portugal, 1550 to 1800; D.Higgs 'People Like Us': Early Modern Homosexuality in Holland; T.Van der Meer Almost Nothing: Male-Male Sex in Denmark, 1550-1800; W.Von Rosen A State of Sin: Switzerland and the Early Modern Imaginary; H.Puff Can we 'Queer' Early Modern Russia?; D.Healey Male Homosexuality in Early Modern Japan: The State of the Scholarship; G.P.Leupp Colliding Cultures: Masculinity and Homoeroticism in Mughal and Early Colonial South Asia; W.Penrose Colonial Latin America; M.A.Nesvig 'Sodomitical Actings', 'Inward Disposition', and 'The Bonds of Brotherly Affection': Sexual and Emotional Intimacy Between Men in Colonial and Revolutionary America; R.Godbeer Homosexuality in Early Modern France; M.Sibalis Between Men in Early Modern England; G.V.Stanivukovic Index

O autorze

RICHARD GODBEER Professor of History, University of Miami, Florida, USA DAN HEALEY Senior Lecturer in Russian History, University of Wales, Swansea, UK DAVID HIGGS Professor of History, University College, University of Toronto, CANADA GARY LEUPP Professor of History, Tufts University, USA CHRIS MOUNSEY Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University College Winchester, UK MARTIN NESVIG Researcher KATHERINE O'DONNELL Lecturer, Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre, University College Dublin, IRELAND MICHAEL O'ROURKE Researcher WALTER PENROSE Adjunct Lecturer of History, Baruch College, Lecturer in Classics, Hunter College, USA HELMUT PUFF Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA GEORGE ROUSSEAU Lecturer, Faculty of Modern History, Oxford University MICHAEL SIBALIS Associate Professor of History, Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA