Sources and Methods in the History of Sexuality

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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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).

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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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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