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Culture and institutions. Using a rich array of oral histories and archival sources, Tomboys and Bachelor Girls provides the first detailed academic study of lesbian identity and culture in post-war Britain for the scholarly and general reader.

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Using a rich array of oral histories and previously unseen archival sources, Queen and country provides the first detailed academic study of the complex intersection between same-sex desire and military authority in the British Armed Forces between 1939 and 1945. It illuminates how men and women lived, loved and survived in an institution which, at least publicly, was unequivocally hostile towards same-sex activity within its ranks. Queen and Country also tells a story of selective remembrance and the politics of memory, exploring specifically why same-sex desire continues to be absent from the historical record of the war. In examining this absence, and the more intimate minutiae of cohesion, homosociability and desire, it pushes far beyond traditional military history in order to cast new light on one of the most widely discussed conflicts of the twentieth century. It makes a significant and original contribution to debates concerning the British experience of war and introduces new ways of understanding the Second World War. Amongst other issues, the book examines contemporary understandings of homosexuality in relation to the entrance of queer recruits and explores the experiences of those that served. It also highlights how the military authorities responded to same-sex activity.

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This book examines changing perceptions of sex between men in early Victorian Britain, a significant yet surprisingly little explored period in the history of Western sexuality. Looking at the dramatic transformations of the era-changes in the family and in the law, the emergence of the world's first police force, the growth of a national media, and more-Charles Upchurch asks how perceptions of same-sex desire changed between men, in families, and in the larger society. To illuminate these questions, he mines a rich trove of previously unexamined sources, including hundreds of articles pertaining to sex between men that appeared in mainstream newspapers. The first book to relate this topic to broader economic, social, and political changes in the early nineteenth century, Before Wilde sheds new light on the central question of how and when sex acts became identities.

Gay men --- Men --- Homosexuality --- Sex --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Same-sex attraction --- Sexual orientation --- Bisexuality --- Human males --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Masculinity --- Gays, Male --- Homosexuals, Male --- Male gays --- Male homosexuals --- Urnings --- Gays --- History. --- Social conditions. --- History --- Great Britain --- Social conditions --- Sex - Great Britain - History - 19th century. --- age of reform. --- british police. --- british society. --- changing perceptions. --- discussion books. --- early 19th century. --- early victorian period. --- economic changes. --- england. --- family changes. --- great britain. --- historical account. --- history buffs. --- history of sexuality. --- homosexuality. --- law changes. --- literary. --- national media. --- nonfiction. --- oscar wilde. --- perceptions of sex. --- political changes. --- queer theory. --- same sex attraction. --- same sex desire. --- sex between men. --- social perspective. --- western sexuality.

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Homosexuality was and still is thought to be quintessentially 'un-African'. Yet in this book Chantal Zabus examines the anthropological, cultural and literary representations of male and female same-sex desire in a pan-African context from the nineteenth century to the present. Reaching back to early colonial contacts between Europe and Africa, and covering a broad geographical spectrum, along a north-south axis from Mali to South Africa and an east-west axis from Senegal to Kenya, here is a comparative approach encompassing two colonial languages (English and French) and some African languages. Out in Africa charts developments in Sub-Saharan African texts and contexts through the work of 7 colonial writers and some 25 postcolonial writers. These texts grow in complexity from roughly the 1860s, through the 1990s with the advent of queer theory, up to 2010. The author identifies those texts that present, in a subterraneous way at first and then with increased confidence, homosexuality-as-an-identity rather than an occasional or ritualized practice, as was the case in the early ethnographic imagination. The work sketches out an evolutionary pattern in representing male and female same-sex desire in the novel and other texts, as well as in the cultural and political contexts that oppose such desires.

Homosexualité --- Homosexualité et littérature --- Littérature africaine de langue française --- Littérature africaine de langue anglaise --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Homosexuality and literature --- Africa, Sub-Saharan --- African literature (English) --- African literature (French) --- Dans la littérature --- Histoire et critique --- History --- Literatures --- History and criticism. --- Homosexuality and literature--Africa Sub-Saharan--History--19th century. --- Homosexuality and literature--Africa Sub-Saharan--History--20th century. --- Homosexuality and literature--Africa Sub-Saharan--History--21st century. --- Africa Sub-Saharan--Literatures--History and criticism. --- Literature.--ukslc --- #SBIB:39A5 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:613.88H31 --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Homoseksualiteit, biseksualiteit --- Literature. --- African literature (English). --- African literature (French). --- Africa Sub-Saharan --- 1800-2099. --- Africa, Sub-Saharan. --- History and criticism --- Dans la littérature. --- Histoire et critique. --- Homosexuality in literature --- Homosexuality and literature--Africa Sub-Saharan--History--19th century --- Homosexuality and literature--Africa Sub-Saharan--History--20th century --- Homosexuality and literature--Africa Sub-Saharan--History--21st century --- Africa Sub-Saharan--Literatures--History and criticism --- African literature --- Homosexuality --- Geschichte 1860-2010. --- Subsaharisches Afrika. --- Same-sex attraction --- Sexual orientation --- Bisexuality --- Black literature (African) --- Authors, African --- Afrika südlich der Sahara --- Schwarzafrika --- Subsahara --- Subsahara-Afrika --- Afrika --- Africa. --- English. --- French. --- anthropology. --- colonial contacts. --- culture. --- homophobia. --- literature. --- pan-African. --- queer theory. --- same-sex desire. --- Homosexualité --- Homosexualité et littérature --- Littérature africaine de langue française --- Littérature africaine de langue anglaise --- Dans la littérature.