Historicising gender and sexuality / edited by Kevin P. Murphy, Jennifer M. Spear.

"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. Features a wide and diverse range of scholarship to explore the historical intersections between gender and sexuality across space and time 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"-- Provided by publisher.

"Originally published as Volume 22, Issue 3 of Gender & History."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Imagining Cihuacoatl : Masculine Rituals, Nahua Goddesses and the Texts of the Tlacuilos / Pete Sigal -- Power and Historical Figuring : Rachael Pringle Polgreen's Troubled Archive / Marisa J. Fuentes -- Gender, Sexuality and the Formation of Racial Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Caribbean World / Brooke N. Newman -- Xing : The Discourse of Sex and Human Nature in Modern China / Leon Antonio Rocha -- Epistemic Modernity and the Emergence of Homosexuality in China / Howard Chiang -- Overcoming 'Simply Being' : Straight Sex, Masculinity and Physical Culture in Modern Egypt / Wilson Chacko Jacob -- Monitoring and Medicalising Male Sexuality in Semi-Colonial Egypt / Hanan Kholoussy -- The Volatility of Sex : Intersexuality, Gender and Clinical Practice in the 1950s / Sandra Eder -- 'A Certain Amount of Prudishness' : Nudist Magazines and the Liberalisation of American Obscenity Law, 1947-58 / Brian Hoffman -- Cold War Conflicts and Cheap Cabaret : Sexual Politics at the 1975 United Nations International Women's Year Conference / Jocelyn Olcott -- Gender and Sexuality in Latina/o Miami : Documenting Latina Transsexual Activists / Susana Peña.