This astonishing book presents a distinctive approach to the politics of everyday life.
Ranging across a variety of spaces in which politics and the political unfold, it questions …

SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR presents a theoretical and empirical overview of the
nature and meaning of deviance, examining in detail a number of forms of behavior …

What do we know about early modern sex? And how do we know it? How, when, and why
does sex become history? In Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns, Valerie Traub addresses …

I take as my starting point the fact that Western cities are often depicted as on the brink of
catastrophe. Indeed some contemporary authors would argue that they have never been …

The book surveys the ways in which Christian ideas and institutions shaped sexual norms
and conduct from the time of Luther and Columbus to that of Thomas Jefferson. It is global in …

For decades, the history of sexuality has been a multidisciplinary project serving competing
agendas. Lesbian, gay, and queer scholars have produced powerful narratives by tracing …

Arguing that the commercial stage depended on the unprecedented demographic growth
and commercial vibrancy of London to fuel its own development, Jean E. Howard posits a …

This book, the first full-length study of its kind, dares to probe the biggest taboo in
contemporary Arab culture with scholarly intent and integrity-female homosexuality. Habib …

The Essay that Follows was Prompted by a Session at the 2004 MLA Annual
Convention,“Ten Years Since Queering The Renaissance,” organized by Madhavi Menon …

A sweeping survey of sexuality in Europe from the Greeks to the present, Desire: A History of
European Sexuality follows changing attitudes to two major concepts of sexual desire …