History / Gender & Sexuality

Renowned author Franca Iacovetta provides a new perspective on multiculturalism by examining the hopes and challenges of women activists associated with the Toronto International Institute.

A Woman's Empire sheds light on how women's voices, activities, and writings were part of Russia's late imperial expansion into Asia.

Between Orders and Heresy suggests new ways of thinking about the modes of religious life that characterized the medieval religious experience.

A love story packed with gay history, this dual biography of a sexologist and his student sheds light on the early gay rights movement and the racist and imperial concepts that are embedded in queer politics.

States of Liberation examines gay persecution and liberation in both East and West Germany during the Cold War.

Fighter, Worker, and Family Man explores how German-Jewish men tried to maintain their understandings of masculinity under Nazi rule.

Unequal under Socialism examines how and why different groups of women were not considered equal in so-called "good societies" revolving around socialist and communist principles and ideologies.

The Sword of Luchana is the first full-length biography of Baldomero Espartero, the most important figure in Spain’s modern history.

This book probes occluded depictions of queerness in early English drama, ranging from medieval morality plays to Reformation interludes and beyond.

This page-turning translation of a seventeenth-century infanticide trial tells the story of a single mother accused of poisoning two children, including her own.

Men Out of Focus examines how and why the Soviet public came to worry openly about the state of masculinity during the 1950s and 1960s – and how a perceived crisis really stood in for broader fears.

An engrossing World War II "who done it" and a well-researched historical study of France’s deep political divisions and wartime choices, Assassination in Vichy explores the impact of right-wing extremism in wartime France.

Wounded Feelings explores how people brought stories of emotional injury like betrayal, grief, humiliation, and anger before the Quebec courts from 1870 to 1950, and how lawyers and judges translated those feelings into the rational language of law.

In exploring the intersections of memory, migration, and subjectivity, this book attempts to understand how Iraqi migrant women negotiate identity in diaspora.

The Seduction of Youth offers a new perspective on the history of the Weimar Republic by exploring the intersection between the homosexual movement, print culture, and homophobic fears about the seduction of young boys.

Being Fat examines the history of fat activism in Canada, correlating this history with second wave feminism and issues it was debating: femininity, sexuality, and health.