History of Sexuality & LGBTQ Collections

• Simons, Patricia, Gender and sexuality in Renaissance and Baroque Italy: a working bibliography

• Salisbury, Joyce E, Medieval sexuality: a research guide

• Hansen, Marlene R, The fair sex: writing by and about women in the British Isles, 1600-1800: a bibliographical study of material in the Royal Library, Copenhagen, with a biographical index

• Nash, Stanley D, Prostitution in Great Britain, 1485 -1901: an annotated bibliography

• Kelly, Mark G. E., Foucault's History of sexuality [electronic resource]. Volume 1, the will to knowledge / Mark Kelly.

• Handbook of medieval sexuality / edited by Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage.

• Documenting Intimate matters: primary sources for a history of sexuality in America

• Seward, Georgene Hoffman, Sex and the social order [electronic resource]

• Weeks, Jeffrey, What is sexual history?

• Levesque, Roger J. R., Adolescents, sex, and the law [electronic resource] : preparing adolescents for responsible citizenship

• Feminist legal studies.

• La Fond, John Q., Preventing sexual violence [electronic resource] : how society should cope with sex offenders

• Winick, Bruce J. Protecting society from sexually dangerous offenders [electronic resource]: law, justice, and therapy

• Handbook of medieval sexuality / edited by Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage.

• Documenting Intimate matters: primary sources for a history of sexuality in America / edited by Thomas A. Foster.

• Ellis, Havelock, Analysis of the sexual impulse, love and pain, the sexual impulse in women [electronic resource]

• Bentham, Jeremy, of sexual irregularities, and other writings on sexual morality

• Addams, Jane, A new conscience and an ancient evil [electronic resource]

• Le livre des courtisanes : Archives secrètes de la police des moeurs (1861-1876), introduction, notes et répertoires de Gabrielle Houbre.

• Hemmie, Dagmar M. H., Ungeordnete unzucht : prostitution im Hanseraum (12.-16. Jahrhundert) Lübeck - Bergen - Helsingør

• Nash, Stanley, Prostitution in Great Britain, 1485-1901: an annotated bibliography

• Gappa, Judith M, Sex and gender in the social sciences: reassessing the introductory course

• Fuller, Margaret, Woman in the nineteenth century, and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of women

• Iyam, David Uru, Matriarchy and power in Africa [electronic resource]: Aneji Eko

• A companion to gender history

• Paulson, Susan, Masculinities and femininities in Latin America's uneven development [electronic resource]

• Kessler-Harris, Alice, Gendering labor history

• Cohn, Samuel Kline, Women in the streets: essays on sex and power in Renaissance Italy

• Ellis, Havelock, Analysis of the sexual impulse, love and pain, the sexual impulse in women

• Lalumiere, Martin. L (et al), The causes of rape [electronic resource] : understanding individual differences in male propensity for sexual aggression

• Geary, David C, Male, female [electronic resource] : the evolution of human sex differences

• Leuba, Clarence J, The sexual nature of man: and its management

• Calverton, Victor Francis, The bankruptcy of marriage

• McCarthy, Conor, Love, sex and marriage in the middle ages: a sourcebook

• Marriage disputes: a fragmentary Old Irish law-text / edited by Fergus Kelly.

• Covert, James Thayne, A Victorian marriage: Mandell and Louise Creighton

• Rousseau, Constnce M. and Rosenthal, Joel Thomas, Women, marriage, and family in medieval Christendom: essays in memory of Michael M. Sheehan, C.S.B

• McSheffrey, Shannon, Love and marriage in late medieval London

• Hoecke, Willy van, Love and marriage in the twelfth century

• Brooke, Christopher Nugent Lawrence, Marriage in Christian history: an inaugural lecture

• Sanger, Margaret, The Selected papers of Margaret Sanger

• Maternity and gender policies: women and the rise of the European welfare states, 1880s-1950s, edited by Gisela Bock and Pat Thane.

• Bundesministerium für Jugend, Familie, Frauen und Gesundheit, und Funktionsnachfolger : (1950) 1969-1991 (1994), Bestand B 189, bearbeitet von Axel Schmidt.

• Peter Selman, Family planning

• Stein, Marc, Rethinking the gay and lesbian movement

• Aldrich, Robert and Wotherspoon Garry, Who's who in contemporary gay and lesbian history: from World War II to the present day

• Oram, Alison, The lesbian history sourcebook: love and sex between women in Britain from 1780-1970

• Peniston, William A and Erber, Nancy, Queer lives: men’s autobiographies from nineteenth-century France

• Boyd, Nan Alamilla and Roque Ramirez, Horacio N, Bodies of evidence: the practice of queer oral history

• Goldberg, Abbie E., Lesbian and gay parents and their children [electronic resource] : research on the family life cycle

• Cleves, Rachel Hope, Charity and Sylvia [electronic resource]: a same-sex marriage in early America

• Lent, Adam and Storr, Merl, Section 28 and the revival of gay, lesbian and queer politics in Britain

• Murray, David A.B, Real queer? : Sexual orientation and gender identity refugees in the Canadian refugee apparatus

• Stryker, Susan,Transgender history

• Al-Kadhi, Amrou, Unicorn: memoires of a Muslim drag queen
• Balay, Anne, Steel closets: voices of gay, lesbian and transgender steelworkers
• Chacaby, Ma-Nee, A two-spirit journey : the autobiography of a lesbian Ojibwa-Cree elder
• Jacques, Juliet, Trans : a memoir
• Lister, Anne, The secret diaries of Anne Lister (1791-1840)
• Jones, Cleve, When we rise : my life in the movement
• Peniston, William A. & Erber, Nancy, Queer lives : men's autobiographies from nineteenth-century France
• Romain, Gemma, Race, sexuality and identity in Britain and Jamaica : the biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963
• Rufli, Corinne, Seit dieser Nacht war ich wie verzaubert : frauenliebende Frauen über siebzig erzählen
• Seel, Pierre, Moi, Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel
• Ulrichs, Karl Heinrich, The correspondence of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, 1846-1894

• Gowing, Laura Burnett., Women, sex and honour: the London church courts 1572-1640.
• Henderson, Anthony R, Female prostitution in London, 1730-1830
• Brady, Sean Dominic, Masculinity and the Question of Male Homosexuality in Britain: 1861-1911

A full list of our electronic resources is available on the online resources page. Below are a few examples of resources that could be useful for this subject (most are available onsite in the IHR or via subscription only):

• JSTOR
• British periodicals
• Newspapers, see online resources page
• Sexuality, society, and feminism
• Nan nü: men, women, and gender in early and Imperial China.
• Boesten, Jelke, Sexual violence during war and peace: gender, power, and post-conflict justice in Peru
• Sexism and stereotypes in modern society: the gender science of Janet Taylor Spence / edited by William B. Swann, Jr., Judith H. Langlois, Lucia Albino Gilbert.
• Masculinity and sexuality in modern Mexico / edited by Víctor M. Macías-González and Anne Rubenstein
• Sheckels, Theodore F, Gender and the American presidency: nine presidential women and the barriers they faced
• Ellis, Havelock, Sex in relation to society
• Ronner, Amy D, Homophobia and the law

• Texas journal of women and the law
• Feminist legal studies
• Journal of the history of sexuality
• Sexuality & Culture
• Gender and history
• International feminist journal of politics
• Harvard journal of law & gender
• Studies in gender and sexuality
• Gender, work, and organization
• Gender and education
• Journal of women's history
• Canadian journal of women and the law
• The European journal of contraception & reproductive health care

• Wellcome Collection
• Freud Museum London
• The British Museum
• LGBT History Month
• Glasgow Women's Library
• British Library LGBTQ themes in BL collections

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