History of Sexuality

Sacred and obscene laughter in The Contendings of Horus and Seth, in Egyptian inversions of everyday life, and in the context of cultic competition.

by Ellen Morris

2007  In Egyptian Stories: A British Egyptological Tribute to Alan B. Lloyd, ed. Thomas Schneider and Kasia Szpakowska.  Alter Orient und Altes Testament Series.  Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, pp. 197-224.

The Freshman Malady: Rethinking the Ontology of the Crush

by Sally Newman

This article explores the difference that a focus on emotion makes to the writing of history. Using as a case study... more This article explores the difference that a focus on emotion makes to the writing of history. Using as a case study the widespread phenomenon of the ‘College crush’, it makes a case for considering the crush as an example of a distinctively modern emotional style, produced within the specific emotional communities of single-sex educational institutions rather than as ‘evidence’ of lesbian identity or of a phase on a developmental path to normative heterosexuality. The shift to considering
the ontology of the ‘crush’ is enabled by the more flexible framework of the history of emotions. This contrasts with research on sexuality, which is underpinned by teleological notions of identity, biography and history.

Sexualidad en parejas con problemas de fertilidad

by Jorge Alberto Álvarez-Díaz

Breve storia del controllo delle nascite negli Stati Uniti

by Lucia Pozzi

C'era una volta l'America, 17 maggio 2012 www.Corriereweb.net

Quando è iniziata la storia del birth control negli Stati Uniti? Cosa ha preceduto l'attuale dibattito della campagna... more Quando è iniziata la storia del birth control negli Stati Uniti? Cosa ha preceduto l'attuale dibattito della campagna elettorale statunitense? L'articolo vuole essere una sintetica ricostruzione del tema.

Quien con niños se junta

by Francisco Vazquez Garcia

El hermafrodita Reyes Carrasco. Identidad sexual en la España el siglo XIX

by Francisco Vazquez Garcia

Democracia y cultura sexuales

by Francisco Vazquez Garcia

Hermaphroditism, Medical Science and Sexual Identity in Spain, 1850-1960

by Francisco Vazquez Garcia

Historia de la sexualidad en España: Problemas metodológicos y estado de la cuestión

by Francisco Vazquez Garcia

"Subjectivities in transition: gender and sexual identities in cases of 'sex change' and hermaphroditism in Spain, c. 1500-1800"

by Francisco Vazquez Garcia

Vázquez García, F. and Cleminson, R.: "Subjectivities in transition: gender and sexual identities in cases of 'sex change' and hermaphroditism in Spain, c. 1500-1800", History of Science XLVIII (2010), pp. 1-38

This article assesses how critical boundaries around concepts of what made men
and women were constructed in... more This article assesses how critical boundaries around concepts of what made men
and women were constructed in changing social, diagnostic, medical and ‘gendered’
circumstances in Spain from the early sixteenth century through to the late 1700s.
In order to illustrate this process, we draw on a number of cases of ‘doubtful’ sexual
identity exemplified by instances of ‘transvestism’, ‘transgenderism’ and ‘hermaphroditism’
over the period 1500 to 1800

A History of Bisexuality (review)

by Heike Bauer

Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis as Sexual Sourcebook for Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness

by Heike Bauer

Race', normativity and the history of sexuality: Magnus Hirschfeld's racism and the early-twentieth-century sexology

by Heike Bauer

Epistolography (Blackwell Companion to Ancient Sexuality)

by Owen Hodkinson

draft chapter (currently 1000 words too long). comments only welcome if they involve removing not adding!

Making men: the unlikely and ambiguous tale of Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857)

by Andy Harvey

Paper presented at Masculiniities/Femininities conference, Prague, 2012

Thomas Hughes’ idealised vision of life at Rugby public school is one of the best-known novels in the English... more Thomas Hughes’ idealised vision of life at Rugby public school is one of the best-known novels in the English language. It was regarded from the outset as a founding text of ‘muscular Christianity’. Contrary to the intentions of its author, it helped to inaugurate the cult of ‘manly’ athleticism that swept through the English public schools in the second half of the nineteenth-century. I argue that the novel reveals tensions around gender and sexuality that were in play among public schoolboys during the second half of the nineteenth-century. These tensions exploded into full public view in the trial of Oscar Wilde in 1895 and were instrumental in helping to establish a structure of homophobia within homosocial settings that has lasted through to the present day.

More of the ‘Christian’ and less of the ‘muscular’: a re-evaluation of sport in Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857):

by Andy Harvey

Paper given at British Society of Sports History Conference in September 2011

This paper re-evaluates the role of sport in Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857). Many scholars (e.g. J. A. Mangan and James... more This paper re-evaluates the role of sport in Tom Brown’s Schooldays (1857). Many scholars (e.g. J. A. Mangan and James Walvin) have commented extensively on the novel as a founding text of ‘muscular Christianity’ that was promoted in the public schools in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Although it is widely acknowledged that Thomas Arnold, the headmaster of Rugby, had scant interest in games, there is little doubt that Tom Brown’s Schooldays was influential in regards to the cult of athleticism that swept across the public schools later in the century. Sports scholars such as Garry Whannel have contended that the novel promotes athleticism and valorises team sports. In this paper I suggest that such readings are in contradiction to the intention of Thomas Hughes, who was later to complain in The Manliness of Christ (1879) that, 'athleticism is a good thing if kept in its place, but it has come to be very much over-praised and over-valued amongst us' (pp. 21 – 22). I argue that an early misreading of this well-known text as a tribute to athleticism in general and team sports in particular has served to over-emphasise the place of sport in the novel and that a re-evaluation is overdue.

’We Cannot Be Greek Now’: Age Difference, Corruption and the Making of Sexual Inversion

by Jana Funke

Forthcoming in English Studies, Special Edition, (Re)Reading John Addington Symonds, 2013

Navigating the Past: Sexuality, Race and the Uses of the Primitive in Magnus Hirschfeld’s Travel Writings

by Jana Funke

Forthcoming in Compelling Connections: Sexual Knowledge and Receptions of the Past. Eds. Kate Fisher and Rebecca Langlands (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Bryher, Havelock Ellis and the Adventure of Sex

by Jana Funke

Communal Modernisms. Ed. Emily Hinnov. (forthcoming with Palgrave, 2013)

Public Display of Affection: The Making of Marriage in the Venetian Courts before the Council of Trent (1420- 1545). In: The Erotic Cultures of Renaissance Italy, Hg. Matthews- Grieco, S. (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010), 173-197.

by Cecilia Cristellon