Palgrave Advances in the Modern History of Sexuality

Palgrave Advances in the Modern History of Sexuality offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of historical debate in the history of European and American sexuality since c. 1750. Each chapter explores in detail one theme, such as race, pornography, marriage, science or religion, which historians have seen as essential to writing the history of sexuality. The book therefore not only offers a broad introduction to the state of the art, but also suggests new directions for research and debate.

Author Biography

MATT HOULBROOK is Lecturer in Twentieth Century British History at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is the author of Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-57 (University of Chicago Press, 2005) and of several articles on the history of gender and sexuality in modern British culture. H. G. COCKS is Lecturer in History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He is the author of Nameless Offence: Homosexual Desire in Nineteenth Century England (I.B. Taurus, 2003) and of several articles on the history of gender and sexuality in modern Britain.