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Archives of interest to the historian of sexuality
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Demography, reproduction, birth control, and eugenics
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Critical Sexology: forthcoming seminars
Rethinking European (Homo)Sexual Modernity
18-20 March 2010, University of Antwerp (Belgium)
Gender, Sexuality and Law Subject Stream of Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference
30 March- 1 April 2010, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Contemporary Interdisciplinary Scholarship on Gender and Sexuality
A Symposium hosted by the Women’s Studies Department at The Ohio State University, April 9-10, 2010
Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe
Third Annual Postgraduate Conference
Forgotten Bodies: Identities, Practices and Representations
9 Apr 2010, The University of Exeter
IV Queer Studies Easter Symposium
11 April-17 April, 2010, Mexico City
European Social Science History Conference 2010
Ghent, Belgium, Bijloke Site, 13-16 April 2010
Gender, Bodies and Technology
April 22-24, 2010, Roanoke, Virginia
Evil, Women and the Feminine
Monday 3rd May 2010- Wednesday 5th May 2010, Prague, Czech Republic
Good Sex, Bad Sex: Sex Law, Crime and Ethics
Monday 3rd May 2010- Wednesday 5th May 2010, Prague, Czech Republic
Gender and Difference
20-23 May 2010, Gregynog Hall, Wales
Censorship and Discourse
University of Rennes 2 (Rennes, France), 27-28 May 2010
Queer Crossings. Contemporary Perspectives on Gender and Sexuality
18-19 June 2010 Palermo (Italy)
Representations of prostitution, sex work and sex trafficking between the 19th and 21st centuries
The Women’s Library, London, 9th-10th September, 2010
Marriage patterns, household formation and economic development
Utrecht University, the Netherlands, 7-10 Oct 2010
British Queer History
October 14-16, 2010, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Further information about forthcoming conferences very welcome: e-mail me
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Sites of General Interest: Resources
SexBiblio: Bibliography of the History of Western Sexuality, 1700-1945
A bibliographic data base containing about 16,600 titles of the non-belletristic primary and secondary literature of the history of sexuality in Europe and Northern America from 1700 to 1945. Also includes important titles in sexual history of antiquity and the middle ages, as well as
contemporary times, and titles on non-Western societies. Now in its 3rd Edition.
The History of Rape : A Bibliography
The Magnus Hirschfeld Gesellschaft, Berlin
and now has an online exhibition about the Berlin Institute for Sexual Science, 1919-1933
Magnus
Hirschfeld Archive at Humboldt University: formerly the Archive for Sexology, Berlin
In English and Spanish: includes a chronology of sex research, full text of Vern Bullough's Science in the Bedroom, papers on
historical aspects of sexology, and many original historical
documents about the German-Jewish pioneers of sexology. Also a
freely available online course, other courses, two full-text
sexological encyclopedias and a critical dictionary of sexology. Plus a
world-wide directory of sexological institutions, organizations, resource centers, training programs,
and scientific journals.
Scissors and Paste Bibliographies
A site on authors and publishers (and library holdings) of erotic literature by Patrick J. Kearney,
author of The Private Case (1981), on the erotica collection of the British Library
Center for Gender Studies
University of Chicago
Museum of Sex, New York.
Canadian Committee on the History of Sexuality:
variety of resources for teaching and research, CFP and publishing opportunities, information about annual article prize, and the online version of annual newsletter, how to join mail-list.
gender Inn, the Women's and Gender Studies Database on the Internet
A searchable database providing access to over 7,500 records pertaining to feminist theory, feminist literary criticism and gender studies focusing on English and American literature
Online with Project Gutenberg
Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Vols 1-6
and
Sigmund Freud, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex
International Otto Gross Society
'The Otto Gross phenomenon symbolizes the search for a better society, for the dissolution of repressive relationships between the sexes, for utopias in times that lack strong concepts and meaning.'
Critical issues in Sex and Sexuality project
Critical Sexology:
'a London-based, interdisciplinary seminar series for psychologists, psychoanalysts, medical doctors, literary and cultural studies scholars, philosophers, artists, lawyers and historians with a critical interest in the construction and management of gender and sexuality in the medical, discursive and cultural spheres'
Studies in Scarlet: Marriage and Sexuality in the U.S. & U.K., 1815-1914
'Drawn from the Harvard Law School Library's extensive trial collections... images of the texts of more than 450 separately published trial narratives printed in the United States or the United Kingdom from 1815 until 1914.... divorce, domestic violence, adultery, bigamy, breach of promise to marry, and the custody of children... murder and rape. Featured are trials concerning the wealthy and the renowned.... The larger part of the collection, however, consists of the stories of ordinary men and women thrust into the
public eye when their marriages and love affairs went wrong, or their relationships did not conform to social standards.'
The International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS)
to provide a forum for expanding and developing sexuality as a legitimate area of scholarship.
University Consortium for Sexuality Research and Training: UCSRT's Dialogues
Sir Richard Francis Burton - Explorer of the Sotadic Zone:
'His famous (or infamous) essay on pederasty is reproduced here, complete and unexpurgated, with added footnote annotation'
Judy Greenway's research on sex and gender
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Sites of General Interest: Research Centres
Strathclyde Centre in Gender Studies
Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
AHRC Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality
A partnership between the Universities of Kent, Keele and Westminster.
GENCAS: Centre for Research into Gender in Culture and Society
University of Wales Swansea
Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture
University of Manchester
The Fisher Center for the Study of Women and Men
at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies
Annual Summer Institute on Sexuality, Society and Culture
International School for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam
Critical Issues in Sex and Sexuality
Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (CIGS), University of Leeds
Institute for Gender Studies
Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
The Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies, Toronto
Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe, University of Exeter
Centre for Research in Sex, Gender and Sexuality
Roehampton University
Birkbeck Institute for Gender and Sexuality Studies
Brighton and Sussex Sexualities Network
Gender Institute, London School of Economics
National Sexuality Research Center, San Francisco State University
In several cases these links go to the home page of the publisher rather than directly to the page for the journal in question
'Mundane Sex' issue (Vol 3 no 1) of Journal of Mundane Behavior, 'a blind peer-reviewed scholarly and publicly-oriented journal devoted to the study of the "unmarked" -- those aspects of our everyday lives that typically go unnoticed by us, both as academics and as everyday individuals'
Journal of the History of Sexuality
Sexualities: studies in culture and society
founded in 1998, with a 'broad, interdisciplinary perspective'.
Continuity and Change
Population and demographic history
Social History of Medicine
Articles, reviews, and information on source materials, including quite a bit on matters relating to
sexual and reproductive health (birth control, abortion, STDs, etc) as well as questions of gender
in health care.
Studies in Gender and Sexuality
'Growing out of the traditions of feminist scholarship, postclassical and postmodern
psychoanalytic theory, developmental research, and cultural studies, Studies in Gender and
Sexuality provides a forum for examining gender and sexuality that is both multidisciplinary and
interdisciplinary.'
The Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality
produced by the
Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco
gender forum: an internet platform for gender and women's studies (online)
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
'a peer-reviewed, online journal committed to publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on gender studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art and culture'
Manchester University Press
Has a good history list with a strong interest in sex and gender issues, and published
Franz Eder, Lesley Hall, and Gert Hekma's Sexual Cultures in Europe: National Histories and
Themes in Sexuality [details]
Continuum International (formerly Cassell Academic)
Strong gender/gender studies list, good coverage of lesbian/gay issues.
Haworth Press
publishes Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of Lesbian Studies and Journal of
Bisexuality as well as books in these areas, also journals and books on Human Sexuality,
Marriage and the Family, Women and Feminist Studies (though mostly from a contemporary
social science/social policy perspective)
Transformations: online journal of region, culture and society:
Issue No. 8 (July 2004) - Regions of Sexuality
Romanticism on the Net:
Issues 36-37 (November 2004-February 2005): Special Guest-Edited Issue 'Queer Romanticisms'.
InterAlia : new international electronic journal of queer studies published in Poland and peer-edited by scholars based in Poland, Germany, and the U.S.
SQS - The Journal of Queer Studies in Finland in Finnish and English
Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC (online)
Trikster: Nordic Queer Journal
Assuming Gender: An international, interdisciplinary journal
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The Edward Carpenter Archive
includes online texts of My Days and Dreams, Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk, The Intermediate Sex and Iolaus: an anthology of friendship, as well as biographical and bibliographic information, and material on his music (a neglected aspect of this poly-facetted figure)
and now includes Carpenter's unpublished biography of his partner, George Merrill
The Hall-Carpenter Archives, ONE Institute and Archives: The International Gay and Lesbian Heritage/Research Center
Gay and Lesbian Studies at the University of Amsterdam
The Knitting Circle
which now has a Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive
Resources on lesbian and gay issues with special emphasis on higher education. Includes art,
biography, film, government, history, law, literature, music, poetry, psychology, science, sociology, sports, and other related topics.
This site appears to have moved to its own domain c. 2006, but then vanished. Any more up to date information as to whether it still exists will be welcomed.
gayhistory.com
'an introduction to the stories and the people of modern gay history (1700-1973). The site is an ongoing project and most articles about gay male history from 1700-1900 have been completed.'
Essays on Gay History and Literature
Rictor Norton's very useful site on gay history.
E-Directory of GLBT Scholars
The E-Directory helps lesbigay and transgendered scholars connect regarding on-going
manuscripts, conferences, and other scholarly projects. The full Directory is available to all who
agree to be listed, and only to them. This is not a discussion list but rather, a resource list. The
above link goes to its webpage. It now appears to be on hiatus, if not actually defunct, and is no longer being actively maintained.
Celebration 2000: Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
Early proponent of the view that homosexuality was neither sinful nor a crime.
with books by and about Ulrichs available for download
The Lesbian and Gay Studies Project
of the Center for Gender Studies of the University of Chicago
Breaking the ice
- lesbian and gay studies in Sweden
by Jens Rydstrom (PDF)
The Androphile Site
The World History of Male Love
THE OSCHOLARS:
An Electronic Journal for the Exchange of Information on Current Research, Publications and Productions concerning Oscar Wilde and his Circle
Special edition devoted to the homoerotic novel Teleny
La gaya scienza Giovanni Dall'Orto's website (in Italian) on gay history and culture
QueerTheory.com
'the best online resources integrated with the best visual and textual resources in Queer Culture, Queer Theory, Queer Studies, Gender Studies and related fields'
The Old Dyke
A useful personal website on lesbians in history
We Raise our Voices: Gay and Lesbian Pride and Politics in Boston
Online exhibition from the social justice collections at Northeastern University
Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale
Current exhibition, 'The Pink and the Blue: Lesbian and Gay Life at Yale and in Connecticut, 1642-2004'
Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS), New York
'university-based research center in the United States dedicated to the study of historical, cultural, and political issues of vital concern to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and communities. Offers conferences and other public programming, awards fellowships.'
International Resource Network
'aims to link up researchers (from both academic and community bases) in areas related to diverse sexualities and genders.'
Transgender Law and Policy Institute
'dedicated to engaging in effective advocacy for transgender people in our society.'
Out in the Redwoods
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, 1965-2003
Daniel Guérin (1904-1988)
'Writer, historian, revolutionary theorist and activist, anticolonialist, syndicalist activist, campaigner for gay rights'
Bibliography of GLBTQ literature 1800-2004 (Swedish site)
International Institute of Social History
Research Projects 'Homosexuality in the Netherlands in the 20th century'
http://www.queermatters.org/queerkcl.html
Queer studies events at King's College London
Proud Heritage
'Proud Heritage is the new national agency for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans history, heritage and lived experience. Our goal is to create a national museum at first online and then as a physical institution, reflecting the diverse experiences of LGBT people across the country and through time.'
The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP)
provides a free, on-line searchable database that allows users to download electronic copies in the collection
'1967 and All That'
The story of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act, using material from the Hall-Carpenter Archives at the London School of Economics and the Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archives at Middlesex University
Wayne R. Dynes' Homolexis Glossary
'an alphabetical roster of material on the historical semantics of same-sex love'
Linsert.org
a site to record and promote Gay History, Queer History, LGBT History with a Scottish slant
OutHistory.org
Documenting the LGBTQH past in the U.S.A.: 'a website in development about gender and sexual history, a site that, at its best, should encourage us to think deeply and critically about historical evidence and what it means to understand LGBT and heterosexual life in the perspective of society and time'.
The LGBTQ Historical Review, an international association of doctoral students researching and documenting the LGBTQ past
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Demography, Reproduction, Birth Control, and Eugenics
World Population: A Guide to WWW by Richard Jensen
Links to do with demography, population, reproductive health, etc, mainly contemporary but
some with historical relevance.
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
Eugenics Archive: Image Archive on the American Eugenics Movement
'can serve as a model for other online projects on the history and social interpretation of modern science - especially those involving the release of sensitive documents'. Impressive.
American Experience Online Presents The Pill
Planned Museum for Contraception and Abortion, Austria (site in German)
Indiana Eugenics: History and legacy, 1907-2007:
'On April 9, 1907 the Governor of Indiana signed into law a bill passed by the state legislature that provided for the involuntary sterilization of "confirmed criminals, idiots, imbeciles and rapists." Although it was eventually found to be unconstitutional, this law is widely regarded as the first eugenics sterilization legislation passed in the world.'
The Dr. William M. Scholl Center for Family and Community History
Local Population Studies Society
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Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge
formerly the Child Care and Development Group
Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
The Centre for Research on Family,
Kinship and Childhood, Leeds
Established to forge interdisciplinary links with researchers and practitioners from a varied range of disciplines with a principal focus on family life structure, kinship patterns and the changing nature of childhood.
Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, University of Edinburgh
history-child-family
An e-mail list for exchange of ideas and resources among teachers and researchers of childhood
and family history in Britain and Europe
H-Child: History of Childhood and Youth
Institute of Psychohistory
'Psychohistory, the science of historical motivation, combines the insights of psychotherapy with
the research methodology of the social sciences to understand the emotional origin of the social
and political behavior of groups and nations, past and present. The center of psychohistorical
research around the globe is The Institute for Psychohistory, which is headquartered in New York
City and has 18 branches in other countries.'
Archives of H-Psychohistory
moderated discussion list now defunct
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STDs
AIDS in Culture
'AIDSinCULTURE.org is an international and interdisciplinary academic organization currently based in Mexico City dedicated to the study of Aids in its cultural context'
Syphilis and Aids: lessons from history
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Electronic forums and e-mail lists
Gender-Related Electronic Forums
An extremely compendious, annotated and frequently updated site by Joan Korenman
SandS - Socialism and Sexuality Discussion List
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