For decades, the history of sexuality has been a multidisciplinary project serving competing agendas. Lesbian, gay, and queer scholars have produced powerful narratives by tracing the homosexual or queer subject as continuous or discontinuous. Yet organizing historical work around categories of identity as normal or abnormal often obscures how sexual matters were known or talked about in the past.Set against the backdrop of women s work experiences, friendships, and communities during World War I, "Disturbing Practices" draws on a substantial body of new archival material to expose the...