Historicising Gender and Sexuality features a diverse collection of essays that shed new light on the historical intersections between gender and sexuality across time and space.
Demonstrates both the particularities of specific formulations of gender and sexuality and the nature of the relationship between the categories themselves
Presents evidence that careful and contextualised analysis of the shifting relationship of gender and sexuality illuminates broader historical processes
About the Author
Kevin P. Murphy is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform (2008), co-editor of Queer Twin Cities (2010), and co-editor of “Queer Futures,” a special issue of the Radical History Review (2008).
Jennifer M. Spear is Assistant Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans (2009).
