Christopher Chitty traces the 500 year history of capitalist sexual relations, showing how sexuality became a crucial dimension of the accumulation of capital and a technique of bourgeois rule.

Foreword / Max Fox  vii
Introduction / Christopher Nealon  1
Part I: Sexual Hegemonies of Historical Capitalism
1. Homosexuality and Capitalism  21
2. Sodomy and the Government of Cities  42
3. Sexual Hegemony and the Capitalist World System  73
4. Homosexuality and Bourgeois Hegemony  106
Part II. Homosexuality and the Desire for History
5. Historicizing the History of Sexuality  141
6. Homosexuality as a Category of Bourgeois Society  167
Notes  193
Index  217