- Barbarolexis
- Alexandre Leupin
- Translated by Kate M. Cooper
- Hardcover 1989
- Dilemmas of Desire
- Deborah L. Tolman
- What teenage girls make of their awakening sexuality--distant from and yet susceptible to cultural stereotypes--emerges for the first time in Deborah Tolman's Dilemmas of Desire. Thoughtful, vivid, and richly informed, this revealing book begins the critical work of understanding the sexuality of young women in all its personal, social, and emotional significance.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2005
- The Emergence of Sexuality
- Arnold I. Davidson
- Moving between philosophy and history, Arnold Davidson elaborates a powerful new method for considering the history of concepts and the nature of scientific knowledge, a method he calls "historical epistemology." He applies this method to the history of sexuality.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- Father-Daughter Incest
- Judith Lewis Herman
- Through an intensive clinical study of forty incest victims and numerous interviews with professionals in mental health, child protection, and law enforcement, Judith Herman develops a composite picture of the incestuous family. In a new afterword, Herman offers a lucid and thorough overview of the knowledge that has developed about incest and other forms of sexual abuse since this book was first published.
- Paperback 2000
- How Sex Changed
- Joanne Meyerowitz
- From early twentieth-century sex experiments in Europe, to the saga of Christine Jorgensen, whose sex-change surgery made headlines in 1952, to today's growing transgender movement, Meyerowitz gives us the first serious history of transsexuality. She focuses on the stories of transsexual men and women themselves, as well as a large supporting cast of doctors, scientists, journalists, lawyers, judges, feminists, and gay liberationists.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- Islamicate Sexualities
- Edited by Kathryn Babayan
- Edited by Afsaneh Najmabadi
- Babayan explores different genealogies of sexuality and questions some of the theoretical emphases and epistemic assumptions affecting current histories of sexuality.
- Paperback 2008
- Kiss and Tell
- Julia A. Ericksen
- Sally A. Steffen
- Kiss and Tell chronicles the history of sex surveys in the United States over a century of changing social and sexual mores. Julia Ericksen and Sally Steffen reveal that the survey questions asked, more than the answers elicited, expose and shape the popular image of appropriate sexuality. We can learn as much about the history and practice of sexuality by looking at surveyors' changing concerns as we can by reading the results of their surveys.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001
- Making Sex
- Thomas Laqueur
- Turning Freud's famous dictum around, Thomas Laqueur posits that destiny is anatomy. Sex, in other words, is an artifice; and Making Sex tells the astonishing story of sex in the vest from the ancients to the moderns. We cannot fail to recognize the players in Laqueur's story--the human sexual organs and pleasures, food, blood, semen, egg, sperm--but we will be amazed at the plots into which they have been woven by scientists, political activists, literary figures, and theorists of every stripe.
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1992
- Sexual Fluidity
- Lisa M. Diamond
- Is love "blind" when it comes to gender? For women, it just might be. This original book offers a radical new understanding of the context-dependent nature of female sexuality. Diamond argues that for some women, love and desire are not rigidly heterosexual or homosexual but fluid, changing as women move through the stages of life, various social groups, and, most important, different love relationships.
- Hardcover 2008 / Paperback 2009
- Sexuality and Feminism in Shelley
- Nathaniel Brown
- More than a literary study, this book is an analysis of sexual attitudes and practices in the Romantic period, and a contribution to the history and theory of feminism. In exploring the many aspects of his subject, Brown compares Shelley with his contemporaries, particularly Byron, and draws upon extensive research into the laws, ideas, and practices of the period.
- Hardcover 1979