The Cambridge World History of Sexualities: Volume 3, Sites of Knowledge and Practice

Volume III investigates the lived experience of individuals and groups, highlighting the diversity of human sexualities across the globe.

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Edited by), Mathew Kuefler (Edited by)

9781108842105, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 May 2024

600 pages
23.5 x 16.2 x 3.1 cm, 1.06 kg

Volume III provides in-depth analyses of specific times and places in the history of world sexualities, to investigate more closely the lived experience of individuals and groups to reveal the diversity of human sexualities. Comprising twenty-five chapters, this volume covers ancient Athens, Rome, and Constantinople; eighth- and ninth-century Chang'an, ninth- and tenth-century Baghdad, and tenth- through twelfth-century Kyoto; fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Iceland and Florence; sixteenth-century Tenochtitlan, Istanbul, and Geneva; eighteenth-century Edo, Paris, and Philadelphia; nineteenth-century Cairo, London, and Manila; late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Lagos, Bombay, Buenos Aires, and Berlin, and twentieth-century Sydney, Toronto, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro. Broad in range, this volume sheds light on continuities and changes in world sexualities across time and space.

Editors' preface to the series Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Mathew Kuefler
1. Sex in Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE James Robson
2. Sex in Rome in the late first century BCE and the early first century CE Aven McMaster
3. Sex in Constantinople in the sixth century CE Shaun Tougher
4. Sex in Chang'an in the eighth and ninth centuries CE Ping Yao
5. Sex in Baghdad in the ninth and tenth centuries CE Karen Moukheiber and Nadia Maria El Cheikh
6. Sex in Heian-Kyo (Kyoto) in the tenth through twelfth centuries CE Joshua Mostow
7. Sex in Iceland in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries CE Agnes Arnorsdottir
8. Sex in Florence in the fifteenth century Ian Frederick Moulton
9. Sexuality in Tenochtitlan in the early sixteenth century Miriam López Hernández
10. Sex in sixteenth-century Istanbul Selim S. Kuru
11. Sex in Geneva in the sixteenth century Jeffrey R. Watt
12. Sex in eighteenth-century Edo (Tokyo) Angelika Koch
13. Sex in eighteenth-century Paris Nina Kushner
14. Sex and sexuality in eighteenth-century Philadelphia Merril D. Smith
15. Sex in nineteenth-century Cairo Mario M. Ruiz
16. Sexual pleasures and perils in nineteenth-century London Paul R. Deslandes
17. Sex in Manila in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Raquel A. G. Reyes
18. Sex in Lagos from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century Ndubueze L. Mbah
19. Sex in Bombay in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Aditi Sen
20. Sexuality in a distant metropolis: Buenos Aires from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century Pablo Ben and Santiago Joaquín Insausti
21. Sex in early twentieth-century Berlin Annette Timm
22. Sex in Sydney in the twentieth century Frank Bongiorno
23. Toronto the good, Toronto the gay: sex and morality in the twentieth century Tom Hooper
24. Sex in Shanghai in the twentieth century: intimate negotiations Ting Guo
25. Sex in twentieth-century Rio de Janeiro James N. Green.

Subject Areas: General & world history [HBG]