Books by Carolyn Dinshaw
“With a lot of queer history, you’re always kind of haunted by the question, do you presuppose an identity with the actors 50, 100 or 200 years ago, by calling all of them queer, queer as we identify ourselves. Is that kind of breaching a temporal distance? Is that based on a false anachronistic identification, and prescribing a contemporary sense of queerness and projecting it on to the past? But that’s not what Dinshaw is doing. She has this notion of a queer touch across time, where difference is a precondition for such touching across time becoming possible.” Read more...
The best books on Queer History
Benno Gammerl, Historian
Interviews where books by Carolyn Dinshaw were recommended
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Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution
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Queer London
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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community
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Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis
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How Soon is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers and the Queerness of Time
by Carolyn Dinshaw
The best books on Queer History, recommended by Benno Gammerl
The best books on Queer History, recommended by Benno Gammerl
Queer history is not simply about exploring the historical incidence of non-heteronormative sexual desire and experience. It is also a way of looking at the past and of placing gender and sexuality at the heart of historical change. Here, Benno Gammerl, professor of Gender and Sexuality at the European University Institute, explains.
