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posted by [personal profile] oursin at 09:59pm on 30/04/2011

Responding to this question here, with a focus mostly on UK and Europe.

Overviews: Anna Clark's Desire, forthcoming work on more recent European story by Dagmar Herzog, Angus McLaren on History of Contraception and Impotence. The 2 volumes Sexual Cultures in Europe (edited by Eder, Hall and Hekma) - National Histories and Themes in Sexuality. Davidson and Hall (eds), Sex, Sin and Suffering: VD in European context since 1870

On the UK, with specific relevance to the C19th and C20th.

Overviews: Jeff Weeks, Sex, Politics and Society is an oldie but a classic. A lot of his arguments have been contested, but an awful lot of Brithistsex since c. 1980 has been reacting to Weeks or filling in the gaps (see also his Coming Out on homosexuality in the UK). More recently, although it has some weaknesses, Hall, Sex, Gender, and Social Change in Britain since 1880.

Classics: Judith Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian Society, Lucy Bland, Banishing the Beast, Tnmothy D'Arch Smith, Love in Earnest.

Recent important work on C19th homosexuality (mostly in London, it must be admitted):
Charles Upchurch, Before Wilde: Sex Between Men in Britain's Age of Reform
Harry Cocks, Nameless Offences
Matt Cook, London and the Culture of Homosexuality, 1885-1914
Sean Brady, Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913
Morris Kaplan, Sodom on the Thames
and on the C20th, Matt Houlbrook, Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957

On women and same-sex relationships:
Martha Vicinus, Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928
Sharon Marcus, Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England
Laura Doan, Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture
Alison Oram, Her Husband Was a Woman!: Women's Gender-crossing in Modern British Popular Culture
Deborah Cohler, Citizen, Invert, Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain

The rise of sexology:
Harry Oosterhuis, Stepchildren of Nature: Psychiatry and the Making of Sexual Identity
Chris Nottingham, The Pursuit of Serenity: Havelock Ellis and the New Politics
Sheila Rowbotham, Edward Carpenter
Bland and Doan (eds), Sexology in Culture: Labelling Bodies and Desires and Sexology Uncensored: The Documents of Sexual Science

Prostitution and sexual abuse:
Louise Jackson, Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England
Linda Mahood, The Magdalenes
Philippa Levine, Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire
Paula Bartley, Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England, 1860-1914
Maria Luddy, Prostitution in Ireland
Helen Self, Prostitution, Women and Misuse of the Law: The Fallen Daughters of Eve

Marriage, birth control, etc:
Angus McLaren, Birth Control in C19th England
Richard A Soloway, Birth Control and the Population Question in England, 1870-1930
Hera Cook, The Long Sexual Revolution
Simon Szreter, Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940
Barbara Brookes. Abortion in England, 1900-1967
Kate Fisher, Birth Control, Sex, and Marriage in Britain 1918-1960
Szreter and Fisher, Sex before the Sexual Revolution
Lesley Hall, Hidden Anxieties: male sexuality 1900-1950

Changing mores and attitudes in the 1950s (focus on Soho):
Frank Mort, Capital Offences

I've probably forgotten something entirely obvious, if so, will post follow-up.

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