WRITING THE MODERN HISTORIES OF HOMOSEXUAL ENGLAND

被引:8
作者
Reay, Barry [1 ]
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[1] Univ Auckland, Dept Hist, Auckland 1142, New Zealand
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10.1017/S0018246X08007371
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K [历史、地理];
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06 ;
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The most useful sexual histories are those that provide depth of context without either assuming sexual identity or anticipating its complete absence; those that do not force taxonomies; histories that resist any simple teleological account of a shift from 'homosexuality' as sexual excess to the homosexual as a species. This review examines attempts to write such histories - what has recently been termed the 'new British queer history'. I will focus on some strands of male and female same-sex desires and their expression in England in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: male and female same-sex friendships, effeminacy in men and masculinity in women; and representations of lesbianism. This review discuss these histories of desires that resist present-day sexual assumptions.
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