B: Britain
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of the History of Sexuality 3:2 (1992): 203-22.
Binns, J.W., "Women or Transvestite on the Elizabethan Stage?: An Oxford
Controversy", Sixteenth Century Journal 5 (1974), pp. 95-170
On the fear puritans had about homosexuality in the theatre due to the
presence of transvestite boy actors.
Bray, Alan, Homosexuality in Renaissance England, with new afterword and
bibliography, (New York: Columbia UP, 1995; London: Gay Men's Press, 2nd
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Mainly concerned with 17th and 18th centuries. Believes modern homosexual
identity was constructed in this period - opposing views of both Boswell,
who held to the view of a fairly constant gay identity, and those eho see
homosexual identity emerging in the 19th century. Despite his
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Donoghue, Emma, Passions Between Women: British Lesbian Culture 1668-1801,
(London: Scarlett, 1993: New York: HarperCollins, 1995)
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Goldberg, Jonathan., "Society and Sodomy: The Case of Christopher Marlowe",
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Harris, John, The Destruction of Sodom: A Sermon Preached at the Public
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Example of 16th century sins of sodom litearture.
Harris, Tim, "The Bawdy House Riots of 1668", Historical Journal 29:3
(1986), pp. 537-556
p. 543 on the homosexual bishop of Rochester. Ref. Pepys Diary VIII 585,
586
Katz, Jonathan, ed., Miss Marianne Woods and Miss Jane Pirie against Dame
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Repr. of Authorities with Regard to the Practice of Tribadism, (1811) - a
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McCormick, Ian, ed., Secret Sexualities : A Sourcebook of 17th and 18th
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Morris, Polly, "Incest or Survival Strategy? Plebeian Marriage within the
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Norton, Rictor, Mother Clap's Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England
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Rollison, D., "Property, Ideology and Popular Culture in a Gloucestershire
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Discusses sodomy.
Perry, Ruth. "Colonizing the Breast: Sexuality and Maternity in
Eighteenth-Century England." Journal of the History of Sexuality 2:2
(1991): 204-34.
Senelick, Laurence. "Mollies or Men of Mode? Sodomy and the
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Journal of the History of Sexuality 2:4 (1992): 511-26.
Smith, Bruce R., Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural
Poetics, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991)
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pp. 135-152
Trumbach, Randolph, "London's Sodomites: Homosexual Behaviour and Western
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Believes in a continuous homosexual subculture. Monter, "Modern
Switzerland" discusses and criticises this view.
Trumbach, Randolph, "Sodmitical Subcultures, Sodomitical Roles and the
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Trumbach, Randolph, "The Birth of the Queen: Sodomy and the Emergence of
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Trumbach, Randolph. "Sex, Gender, and Sexual Identity in Modern Culture:
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Trumbach, Randolph, Sex and the Gender Revolution Volume 1: Heterosexuality
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Wunderli, Richard M., London Church Courts and Society on the Eve of the
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pp. 83-84, on the English anti-buggary statute