A thorough, cross-cultural history of sexual categories, focusing on such subjects as puritanism, sodomy, and ethnicity in colonial North America; cross-gender

This research explores the Western conceptualizations of non-western patterns of same-sex desire and relates these to the evolution of European attitudes to hom

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