Indicative Reading List
I highly recommend that you make ample use of following journals: Journal for the History of Sexuality; GLQ; TSQ: Trans Studies Quartely; Women's History Review.
- Anjali Arondekar, “Without a Trace: Sexuality and the Colonial Archive,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 14, Numbers 1/2, (January 2005/April 2005), pp. 10-27.
- Alex Bakker, Rainer Herrn, and Annette Timm et al, eds., Others of my Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2020).
- Pascale Bos, „Sexual Violence in Ka-Tzetnik's House of Dolls“ in Annette Timm, ed., Holocaust history and the readings of Ka-tzetnik (London: Bloomsbury, 2018), pp. 105-138.
- Judith Butler, „Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual?“ differences 13, no. 1 (2002): 14-44.
- Matt Cook, “Families of Choice? George Ives, Queer Lives and the Family in Early Twentieth‐Century Britain.” Gender & History vol. 22, no. 1 (2010): 1-20.
- Geoffrey Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (New York: Basic Books, 1994).
- Laura Doan, Queer History Queer Memory: The Case of Alan Turing, GLQ (2017) 23 (1), pp. 113-136.
- Michel Foucault, “The Repressive Hypothesis.” In The Foucault Reader, edited by Paul Rabinow, 301-29. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.
- Nicole von Germeten, Profit and Passion: Transactional Sex in Colonial Mexico (Oakland: University of California Press, 2018).
- Timothy J. Gilfoyle, “Prostitutes in the Archives: Problems and Possibilities of Documenting the History of Sexuality in the Archive,” American Archivist 57 (Summer 1994), pp. 514–527.
- Daniel Grey, „‘Monstrous and Indefensible’? Newspaper Accounts of Sexual Assaults on Children in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales“ In Women's Criminality in Europe, 1600–1914, edited by Manon von der Heijden, Marion Pluskota, and Sanne Muurling, Sexual Forensics in Victorian and Edwardian England: Age, Crime and Consent in the Courts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), pp. 189-205.
- Anna Hájková, “Sexual Barter in Times of Genocide: Negotiating the Sexual Economy of the Theresienstadt Ghetto,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 38,3 (spring 2013): 503-533.
- Jack Halberstam, Female Masculinity (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998).
- David Halperin, "Forgetting Foucault : Acts, Identities, and the History of Sexuality," Representations 63 (1998): 93-120.
- Olwen Hufton, The poor of eighteenth-century France, 1750-1789 (Oxford 1974).
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Catharine A. MacKinnon, ‘Rape, Genocide, and Women’s Human Rights’, Harvard Women’s Law Journal, 17, 5 (1994), pp. 5–16.
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (University of California Press, 1990).
- Regina Kunzel, „Situating Sex. Prison Sexual Culture in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States,“ GLQ 8:3 2002, S. 253–270.
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Ilse van Liempt, “Trafficking in Human Beings: Conceptual Dilemmas,” in Christien van den Anker & Jeroen Doomernik, eds., Trafficking and Women's Rights (New York: Palgrave, 2006), pp. 27-42.
- Kateřina Lišková, Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style: Communist Czechoslovakia and the Science of Desire, 1945-1989 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).
- Karma Lochrie, “Have We Ever Been Normal?” In Heterosyncrasies. Female Sexuality When Normal Wasn’t, edited by Karma Lochrie (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005): 1-25.
- Regina Mühlhäuser, The Unquestioned Crime: Sexual Violence by German Soldiers during the War of Annihilation in the Soviet Union, 1941–45, Rape in Wartime, ed. by Raphaëlle Branche and Fabrice Virgili (London: Palgrave, 2012): 34-46.
- Mühlhäuser, "Understanding Sexual Violence during the Holocaust: A Reconsideration of Research and Sources," German History, published online July 2020.
- Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (Harvard University Press, 2002).
- Elizabeth Heineman, Before Porn Was Legal: The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011).
- Katarzyna Person, „Sexual Violence during the Holocaust: The Case of Forced Prostitution in the Warsaw Ghetto,“ Shofar Vol. 33, No. 2 (Winter 2015), pp. 103-121.
- Susan Pedersen, 'National Bodies, Unspeakable Acts: The Sexual Politics of Colonial Policy-making,” Journal of Modern History 63 (December 1991): 647-680
- Laura Ann Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002).
- Katie Sutton, Sexology’s Photographic Turn: Visualizing Trans Identity in Interwar Germany, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 24, Nr. 3 (2018), pp. 442-479.
- Special Issue: “Transgressive Sex, Love and Violence in WWII Germany and Britain,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 26, no. 3 (2017).
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William Spurlin, Lost Intimacies: Rethinking homosexuality under national socialism (New York, 2009),
- Jennifer Evans, “Why Queer German History?” German History Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 371–384.
- Susan Stryker, Transgender History (Berkeley: Seal Press, 2008).
- Annette Timm, The politics of fertility in twentieth-century Berlin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
- Annette Timm, ed., Holocaust history and the readings of Ka-tzetnik (London: Bloomsbury, 2018).
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Judith Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian society: Women, class and the state (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980).
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Luise White, The comforts of home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990).
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Mir Yarfitz, Impure Migration: Jews and Sex Work in Golden Age Argentina (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2019).
- Judith Walkowitz, „The Politics of Prostitution and Sexual Labour,“ History Workshop Journal 82,1 (autumn 2016): pp. 188-198