ABSTRACT
Over the past twenty years, historians have overturned nearly everything we once took for granted about human sexuality. Gender, sexual orientation, "deviance," and even the biology of sex have been unmasked for what they are-historically specific, culturally contested, and above all, unstable constructions.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|44 pages
Rethinking Sex
part 2|58 pages
Sexing the Body
chapter |19 pages
Bodies That Don't Matter
Heterosexuality before Heterosexuality in Gottfried's Tristan
part 3|56 pages
Controlling Sex
chapter |17 pages
Sexuality in California's Franciscan Missions
Cultural Perceptions and Historical Realities
part 4|62 pages
Redefining Sex
part 5|112 pages
Constructing Sex
chapter |22 pages
Richard von Krafft-Ebing's “Step-Children of Nature”
Psychiatry and the Making of Homosexual Identity
part 6|61 pages
Punishing Sex
part 7|34 pages
Unsettling Sex