Preliminary Bibliography

The full bibliography, including seminar readings, can be found on TalisLink opens in a new window.

Butler, J. and Scott, J.W., Feminists theorize the political (Routledge, 1992)

Mohanty, C.T., Feminism without borders: decolonizing theory, practicing solidarity (Duke University Press, 2003)

Hartmann, B., Reproductive rights and wrongs: the global politics of population control, 3 edn (Haymarket Books, 2016)

Mignolo, W., The darker side of Western modernity: global futures, decolonial options (Duke University Press, 2011)

Stoler, A.L., Carnal knowledge and imperial power: race and the intimate in colonial rule (University of California Press, 2010)

‘Holocaust and the History of Gender and Sexuality’, German History, 36.1 (2018), pp. 78–100

Barrera-Osorio, A., Experiencing nature: the Spanish American empire and the early scientific revolution. 1st ed. (University of Texas Press, 2006)

Peirce, L.P., Morality tales: law and gender in the Ottoman court of Aintab (University of California Press, 2003)

Ali, K., Marriage and slavery in early Islam (Harvard University Press, 2010)

Tucker, J. E., Women, family, and gender in Islamic law (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Bashford, A., Purity and pollution: gender, embodiment, and Victorian medicine (Macmillan, 1998)

Zweiniger-Bargielowska, I., Managing the body: beauty, health, and fitness in Britain, 1880-1939 (Oxford University Press, 2010)

Inhorn, M.C. and Tremayne, S., Islam and assisted reproductive technologies: Sunni and Shia perspectives (Berghahn Books, 2012)

Kahn, S.M., Reproducing Jews: a cultural account of assisted conception in Israel (Duke University Press, 2000)

Hunt, N.R., A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo (Duke University Press, 2016)

Meyerowitz, J.J., How sex changed: a history of transsexuality in the United States (Harvard University Press, 2022)

Najmabadi, A., Women with mustaches and men without beards: gender and sexual anxieties of Iranian modernity (University of California Press, 2005)

Najmabadi, A., Professing selves: transsexuality and same-sex desire in contemporary Iran (Duke University Press, 2014)

Buffington, R., Luibhéid, E. and Guy, D.J. (eds), A global history of sexuality: the modern era (Wiley Blackwell, 2014)

Wiesner, M.E., Gender in history: global perspectives, 3 edn (Wiley Blackwell, 2022)

Reyes, R.A.G. and Clarence-Smith, W.G. (eds), Sexual diversity in Asia, c. 600-1950 (Routledge, 2012)

Bauer, H. (ed.), Sexology and translation: cultural and scientific encounters across the modern world (Temple University Press, 2015)

Carroll, S., Cultures of violence: interpersonal violence in historical perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)

Spierenburg, P.C., Men and violence: gender, honor, and rituals in modern Europe and America (Ohio State University Press, 1998)

Stone, L., The family, sex and marriage in England, 1500-1800 (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977)

Joyce, J.-P., Odd men out: male homosexuality in Britain from Wolfenden to gay liberation, 1954-1970 (The Book Guild Ltd, 2019)

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