Sources and Methods in the History of Sexuality

Herausgeber: Clark, Anna; Williams, Elizabeth W.

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Produktbeschreibung

Sources and Methods in the History of Sexuality outlines some of the challenges of retracing sexual acts, identities, and desires in the past, and shows how historians have responded to these methodological challenges with ingenuity and creativity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 586g
• ISBN-13: 9781032655833
• ISBN-10: 1032655836
• Artikelnr.: 70147829

Autorenporträt

Anna Clark is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. Her recent books include Alternative Histories of the Self: A Cultural History of Sexuality and Secrets (2017) and Desire: A History of Sexuality in Europe (2008, second edition 2019). Her articles concern human rights and humanitarianism, Anne Lister and lesbian history, domestic violence, and imperialism. Elizabeth W. Williams is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky. Her research focuses on histories of race, gender, and sexuality in Britain and the British Empire. Publications include Primitive Normativity: Race, Sexuality, and Temporality in Colonial Kenya (2024).

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Contested Lineages
Chapter 2: "Queer History/Queer Memory: The Case of Alan Turing"
Laura Doan
Chapter 3: "Queer Methods & Trans Historicism: The Case of Female Husbands"
Jen Manion
Part 2: Deceptive Discourses
Chapter 4: "Methodological Pitfalls in the History of Pornography"
Lisa Z. Sigel
Chapter 5: "Ethnopornography as Methodology, Critique, and Play"
Pete Sigal and Zeb Tortorici
Chapter 6: "The Secret of Sex and the Uses of Ethnography for African
History"
Corrie Decker
Part 3 - Decoding Sources
Chapter 7: "Reading between the Lines: Finding Queer Lives in Newspapers"
George Robb
Chapter 8: "Prying in the Secrets of Nature: Reading Aristotle's
Masterpiece"
Mary E. Fissell
Chapter 9: "An Enviable Life or Worse than Death? Reconstructing women's
experience of sex and marriage in classical Athens"
James Robson
Part 4- Reading Against the State
Chapter 10: "The Criminal Justice System Calendars of Prisoners:
Undertaking Quantitative Analyses of Trends, Actions, and Agency in the
Prosecution of Inter-Male Sex in England, 1850-1970"
J. G. M. Evans and K. G. Valente
Chapter 11: "Sources and Methods in the History of Abortion"
Cara Delay
Chapter 12: "Archival Scraps, Collective Biography: Sex Workers and the
Medieval Mediterranean"
Susan McDonough
Part 5: Secret Selves
Chapter 13: "Diaries as a source for sexual subjectivity:Samuel Pepys,
Roger Casement, and Anne Lister"
Anna Clark
Chapter 14: "Reading Queer History through the Private Album"
James A. Kaser
Part 6 - Creating Alternative Archives
Chapter 15: "LGBTQ+ Community-based Public, Oral, and Digital History
Projects in Mexico"
Víctor M. Macíaz-González
Chapter 16: "Teaching With Muholi"
Elliot James