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, K. O'Donnell, M. O'Rourke in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Gender Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2005

ISBN

9780230524156

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Gender Studies

Index

Social Sciences

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