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Volume III provides in-depth analyses of specific times and places in the history of world sexualities, to investigate more closely the lived experience of individuals and groups to reveal the diversity of human sexualities. Comprising twenty-five chapters, this volume covers ancient Athens, Rome, and Constantinople; eighth- and ninth-century Chang'an, ninth- and tenth-century Baghdad, and tenth- through twelfth-century Kyoto; fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Iceland and Florence; sixteenth-century Tenochtitlan, Istanbul, and Geneva; eighteenth-century Edo, Paris, and Philadelphia; nineteenth-century Cairo, London, and Manila; late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Lagos, Bombay, Buenos Aires, and Berlin, and twentieth-century Sydney, Toronto, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro. Broad in range, this volume sheds light on continuities and changes in world sexualities across time and space.

Sex --- Sex customs --- History. --- History.

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"In Transgender in Imperial China, Matthew Sommer offers a close reading of a series of remarkable, well-documented court cases from the 18th and 19th century Qing dynasty legal archives that deal with sex and gender difference. The book explores practices in their specific historical context and avoids imposing trans-historical identities on people in the past, understanding, in the vein of Susan Stryker's work, that "transgender people" are those who "move away from" the gender assigned at birth and "cross over" the gender boundaries imposed by their society, without assuming any specific motivation or destination for that movement. Sommer details the experience of individuals assigned male at birth who were living as women (and were punished very harshly for the crime of "masquerading in women's attire"), but also includes under the sign "transgender" a range of personae not usually considered in this context, such as cross-dressing "boy actresses" of the opera and those who "left the family" by becoming Buddhist or Daoist clergy or eunuchs in imperial service and renouncing normative gender roles based on marriage and procreation. These cases explore a range of themes in Chinese law, society, and culture, and illuminate how many forms of gender transgression were sanctioned by law in Qing society. In considering all of these scenarios together, Sommer's book unpacks the full story of how sex and gender were understood in the Qing era"--

Sex customs --- Gender identity --- Sex role --- History

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Sex customs --- Red-light districts --- Nightlife

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Vies rebelles retrace des bribes d'existence de femmes noires, qui ont quitté le sud des États-Unis en quête d'une vie meilleure pour les villes du Nord-Est, New York et Philadelphie, entre 1890 et 1930, après l'abolition de l'esclavage. S'appuyant sur les sources de la police, les écrits des philanthropes et des réformateurs sociaux, les archives de la justice mais aussi sur les notes prises par le jeune W.E.B. Du Bois lors de ses enquêtes, Saidiya Hartman leur donne vie, rendant à ces filles et femmes leur statut de sujet, dessinant des portraits vibrants de Noires indisciplinées, reconstituant leurs désirs, leurs efforts pour trouver la joie de vivre, leurs aspirations à la liberté, leurs élans de vie, leurs pensées, leurs corps éprouvés mais libres, leur anarchisme. Il en résulte des histoires inoubliables, portées par une écriture exceptionnelle, qui transforment nos représentations des classes subalternes « déviantes » et de la condition noire dans les sociétés post-esclavage. Cette attention à l'infra-politique ouvre aussi d'autres généalogies aux radicalités noires et à la révolution des moeurs. Soixante-dix photographies rares et bouleversantes viennent illustrer la vie de ces femmes en marge de la société.

Féministes noires américaines. --- Noires affranchies --- Esclavage --- Émancipation. --- Womanisme. --- African American young women --- Sex customs --- Prostitution --- Man woman relationships --- Single women --- Urban women