History / Gender & Sexuality

Entangled Emancipation examines the struggle to redefine the gender order and women’s rights in East and West Germany after the Second World War.

Uniform Fantasies explores the intimate entanglements between military politics and queer sexual politics in Germany during the decades leading up to the First World War.

Queer Lives across the Wall draws on personal letters, photo albums, and state records in order to tell the history of East and West Berlin in the early Cold War through an LGBTIQ* perspective.

This book examines the many forces that shaped postwar French femininity as a desirable commodity, both within France and around the world.

Writing and Rewriting the Reich offers a comprehensive history of German women journalists throughout the Nazi era.

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.