A: General
Bingham, Caroline, "Seventeenth-century Attitudes toward Deviant Sex",
Journal of Interdisciplinary History 1:3, pp. 448 ff.
Boehrer, Bruce Thomas. "Early Modern Syphilis." Journal of the History of
Sexuality 1:2 (1990): 197-214.
Brown, Judith, "Lesbian Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Europe" in
Martin Bauml Duberman, Martha Vincus and George Chauncey, eds. Hidden From
History, New York: NAL, 1989), 67-75
Cassio, A.C., "Post Classical Lesbiai", Classical Quarterly 33:1 (1983),
296-97
Crompton, Louis, "The Myth of Lesbian Immunity", in Salvatore J. Licata &
Robert P. Petersen, eds., The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays,
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Delumeau, Jean, Sin and Fear: The Emergence of Western Guilt Culture in thr
13th-18th Centuries, trans. Eric Nicholson, (New York: St. Martins Press,
1990; French original 1983)
A widely read discussion of the emergence of a "guilt culture" in the Est.
Pp 436-45 is a vital discussion of the obsession with impurity, and indeed
its equation with sin, in the Counter-Reformation period. Despite modern
Roman approval of marriage, Delumeau demonstrates that long after marriage
had been accepted as "sacrament" (in the 13th century), Roman Catholic
leaders and moralists remained extremely suspicious of any sexuality. The
chief point of the book, though, is its discussion of the use of fear and
guilt (with phenomena like "sin lists) by religious leaders to terrify and
control the laity.
DiGangi, Mario. The homoerotics of early modern drama. Cambridge; NewYork:
Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Fradenburg, Louise, and Carla Freccero, eds. The Pleasures of History:
Reading Premodern Sexualities, (New York: Routledge, 1996)
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Gay Life in Pictures, (?: Serpents Tail,1997)
Gerard, Kent and Gert Hekma, eds., The Pursuit of Sodomy: Male
Homosexuality in Renaissance and Englightenment Europe, (New York:
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also issued as Journal of Homosexuality 16:1/2 (1988))
Goldberg, Jonathan, Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities,
(Stanford: Stanford UP, 1992)
As with many books written by literature scholars it is hard to get over
the perception that the author is engaging in a conspicuous display of
cleverness, whatever the merit of the work itself.
Goldberg, Jonathan, ed. Reclaiming Sodom, (London, New York: Routledge,
1994)
Goldberg, Jonathan, ed., Queering the Renaissance, (Durham: Duke University
Press, 1994)
Gwilliam, Tassie. "Female Fraud: Counterfeit Maidenheads in the Eighteenth
Century." Journal of the History of Sexuality 6:4 (1996): 518-48.
Hurteau, Pierre, "Catholic Moral Discourse on Male Sodomy and Masturbation
in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries", Journal of the History of
Sexuality 4:1 (1993), 1-32
Maccubin, R.P., ed., Tis Nature's Fault: Unauthorized Sexuality during the
Enlightenment, (New York: 1987)
Rousseau, G.S. "The Pursuit of Homsexuality in the Eighteenth Century:
'Utterly Confused Category' and/or Rich Repository", Eighteenth Century
Life 9 (1985), 132-68
Tentler, Thomas T., Sex and Confession on the Eve of the Reformation, (New
York: 1979)
Traub, Valerie, Desire and Anxiety: Circulation of Sexuality in
Shakespearean Drama, (New York: Routledge, 1992) Trumbach, Randolph, "The
Birth of the Queen: Sodomy and the Emergence of Gender Equality in Modern
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Trumbach, Randolph. "Is There a Modern Sexual Culture in the West; or, Did
England Never Change between 1500 and 1900?" Journal of the History of
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Zimmerman, Susan, Erotic Politics: The Dynamics of Desire in the
Renaissance Theatre, (New York: Routledge, 1993)