In this ground-breaking and interdisciplinary collection, leading scholars show that claims about the past have been crucial in articulating sexual morals, driving political, legal, and social change, shaping individual identities, and constructing and grounding knowledge about sex.

Kate Fisher is Professor of Social and Cultural History and Co-Director of the Sexual Knowledge, Sexual History project at the University of Exeter.
Rebecca Langlands is Associate Professor in Classics and Co-Director of the Sexual Knowledge, Sexual History project at the University of Exeter.

• Acknowledgements


• List of Figures


• List of Contributors


• Introduction


• 1: Alastair Blanshard: Queer Desires and Classicising Strategies of Resistance


• 2: Debbie Challis: Queering Display: LGBT History and the Ancient World


• 3: Peter Cryle: Anachronistic Readings of Eighteenth-Century Libertinage in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century France


• 4: Kate Fisher and Rebecca Langlands: Bestiality in the Bay of Naples: the Herculaneum Pan and Goat Statue


• 5: Jana Funke: Navigating the Past: Sexuality, Race, and the Uses of the Primitive in Magnus Hirschfeld's World Journey of a Sexologist


• 6: Joanna De Groot: Hybridizing Past, Present, and Future: Reflections on the 'Sexology' of R.F. Burton


• 7: Lesley Hall: The Victorians: Our Others, Our Selves?


• 8: Chris Manias: Scholarly Visions of Prehistoric Sexuality, 1859-1900


• 9: Sebastian Matzner: Literary Criticism and/as Gender Reassignment: Reading the Classics with Karl Heinrich Ulrichs


• 10: Alison Moore: Androgyny, Perversion, and Social Evolution in Interwar Psychoanalytic Thought


• 11: Karin Sellberg: Queer (Mis)Representations of Early Modern Sexual Monsters


• 12: Chris Waters: Wilde in the 'Fifties


• Bibliography


• Index