Queer Masculinities, 1550-1800
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Queer Masculinities, 1550-1800

Siting Same-Sex Desire in the Early Modern World

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eBook - PDF

Queer Masculinities, 1550-1800

Siting Same-Sex Desire in the Early Modern World

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Queer Masculinities, 1550-1800 by K. O'Donnell, M. O'Rourke, K. O'Donnell,M. O'Rourke in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & European History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Notes on Contributors
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Siting Queer Masculinities
  8. 1 Searching in the Dark: Towards a Historiography of Queer Early Modern and Enlightenment (Anglo) Ireland
  9. 2 Faust’s Transgressions: Male–Male Desire in Early Modern
  10. 3 The Historiography of Male–Male Love in Portugal, 1550–1800
  11. 4 ‘Are Those People Like Us?’ – Early Modern Homosexuality in Holland
  12. 5 Almost Nothing: Male–Male Sex in Denmark, 1550–1800
  13. 6 A State of Sin: Switzerland and the Early Modern Imaginary
  14. 7 Can We ‘Queer’ Early Modern Russia?
  15. 8 Male Homosexuality in Early Modern Japan: The State of the Scholarship
  16. 9 Colliding Cultures: Masculinity and Homoeroticism in Mughal and Early Colonial South Asia
  17. 10 Colonial Latin America
  18. 11 ‘Sodomitical Actings’, ‘Inward Disposition’, and ‘The Bonds of Brotherly Affection’: Sexual and Emotional Intimacy Between Men in Colonial and Revolutionary America
  19. 12 Homosexuality in Early Modern France
  20. 13 Between Men in Early Modern England
  21. Index