SEXUALITY

	Deconstruction
	Deleuzean Theory
	Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle)
	Foucauldian Discourse Theory
	Saussurean Semiology / Structuralism
	Structuralist Marxism
	Structuralist Psychoanalysis

Feminist Theory

Modernism, Myth & New Criticism

Post-colonial Theory

Pragmatism

Twentieth Century Literature

REGIONS

AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORIC THOUGHT:

Literature

ASIAN THOUGHT:

Central Asia

East Asian Thought:

Literature

South Asian Thought:

Literature

South-East Asia

AUSTRALASIAN THOUGHT:

Central Europe

Eastern Europe:

Russia:

Literature

Northern Europe:

Literature

Southern Europe:

Greece:

Literature

Italy:

Literature

Spain:

Literature

Western Europe:

France:

Literature

Germany:

Literature

UK and Eire:

Literature

LATIN AMERICAN THOUGHT:

Literature

MIDDLE EASTERN THOUGHT:

Arabic/Islamic Thought:

Literature

Israeli/Jewish Thought:

Literature

USA: AMERICAN THOUGHT:

Literature

African American Thought:

Literature

Native American Thought

Literary Form & Genre:

	Drama
	Poetry
	Prose

Literary History, Intertextuality, Canonicity

	Linguistics, Philosophy of Language, & Logic
	Rhetoric, Discourse Theory, & Argumentation Theory
	Semiotics

Language and Literature

EDUCATION

HISTORY

THE HUMAN BEING (BODY, MIND, SELF):

	Philosophy of Mind & Cognitive Science
	Psychology

	Gender
	Race
	Sexuality

Literature, the Mind & the Self

KNOWLEDGE

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY

MORALITY:

Morality and Literature

NATURE (NATURAL SCIENCES):

Nature and Literature

RELIGION:

Religion and Literature

SOCIETY (SOCIAL SCIENCES):

	Anthropology
	Cultural Studies
	Economics
	Human Geography
	Law
	Politics
	Sociology

GENERAL

TEACHING AND LEARNING

WWW GATEWAYS

SEXUALITY
(PHILOSOPHY OF RACE / QUEER THEORY)

SUB-PAGES

Post-colonial Perspectives on Sexuality (Queer Theory)

ASSOCIATIONS

CONFERENCES

2009:

Sexual Knowledge: Uses of the Past, Department of Classics, University of Exeter, July 27-29
Sexual Selves, Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, May 1-3

2008:

Queer in Europe, Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of Sexuality and Gender in Europe, University of Exeter, September 13-15
History and Theory of Sexuality, Radboud University, Nijmegen, March 5-6

2007:

Rhetoric of the Other V: from Previsibility to Hypervisibility, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, October 4-7
Philosophy of Love and Friendship, University of Berne, September 20-22
Persons, Intimacy and Love: Probing the Boundaries, Salzburg, Austria, March 20-22

2006:

Sex and Sexuality: Exploring Critical Issues, Cracow, Poland, November 29-December 2
Queer Sexualities, Annual French Literature Conference, University of South Carolina,

2005:

Critical Issues in Sex and Sexuality, Vienna, November 30-December 3
The Erotic: Exploring Critical Issues, Budapest, Hungary, May 9-11
2005 GLBTQ Studies Conference, University of North Carolina, Asheville, March 31-April 3

2004:

Critical Issues in Sexuality, Salzburg, Austria, October 14-16
8th International Conference on Bisexuality, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Program Office, University of Minneapolis, August 5-8
Poetry and Sexuality, University of Stirling, July 1-5
The Erotic: Exploring Critical Issues, Budapest, Hungary, May 13-15
Playing the Fiesld: the Politics and History of Gender and Sexuality, Columbia University, April 23-24
Queer Performance in the Americas: 1945-1954, Department of American Studies, Yale University, April 2-4
Beyond Inclusion: Centering Intersex and Trans-Identities in Academia, Activism, and the Helping Professions, Simmons College, Boston Massachusetts, February 22

2003:

Sexuality After Foucault, Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture, Women's Studies Centre, University of Manchester, November 28-30
S / He . . . Embracing / Wrestling Genders: Cultural Spaces for a Re-Definition of the Political, University of Bielsko-Biala, Poland, October 24-25
Queer Matters, Department of English, King's College, University of London, May 28-30
Victorian Sexualities, University College Worcester, UK, April 26
The Erotic, Annual Conference of the British Society for Phenomenology, St. Hilda's College, Oxford, April 4-6, 2003
Ninth Annual University of Rhode Island Symposium on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Queer (GLBTQ) Issues, University of Rhode Island, April 3-5
Nineteenth Century Sex, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, March 20-23

2002:

2001:

Rhetoric of the Other IV,

2000:

1999:

1998:

1997:

Rhetoric of the Other, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,

COURSES

Harvard University: Introduction to the Theory of Sexuality (Love)
Hong Kong University: Histories of Sexuality (Tambling)
University of Maryland, College Park: Gay and Lesbian Philosophy ()
University of New Orleans: Philosophy of Sex and Love (Soble): Fall 2005 / Summer 2005

JOURNALS

Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality
International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies (discontinued after Vol. 7, 2003)
Journal of Bisexuality
Journal of the History of Sexuality
Sexuality and Culture
Studies in Gender and Sexuality
Torquere: Journal of the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Studies Association

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

Analytic Philosophy:

Alan Soble ( - )

Continental Philosophy:

Philosophers / Theorists of Lesbianism:

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

Anthologies:
- Abelove, Henry, et al., eds. The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 1993.
- Baker, Robert, Frederick A. Elliston, and Kathleen J. Wininger, eds. Philosophy and Sex. New York: Prometheus, 1975.
- Bristow, Joseph, ed. Sexual Sameness. London: Routledge, .
- Fuss, Diana, ed. inside / out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories. London: Routledge, 1991.
- Larmour, David, H. J., Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter, eds. Rethinking Sexuality: Foucault and Classical Antiquity. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997.
- Parker, Andrew, Mary Russo, Doris Sommer, and Patricia Yeager, eds. Nationalisms and Sexualities. London: Routledge, 1992.
- Plummer, Ken, ed. Modern Homosexualities. London: Routledge, .
- Pramaggiore, Maria, ed. Epistemologies of the Fence: Subjects and Cultures of Fluid Desire. New York: New York UP, 1996.
- Rose, S., and C. Stevens, eds. Bisexual Horizons: Politics, Histories, Lives. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1996.
- Soble, Alan, ed. Eros, Agape and Philia: Readings in the Philosophy of Love. New York: Paragon, 1990.
- Soble, Alan, ed. The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings. 4th Ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.
- Solomon, Robert, and Kathleen Higgins, eds. The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love. U of Kansas P, 1991.
- Stanton, Domna C., ed. Discourses of Sexuality: from Aristotle to Aids. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1992.
- Stewart, Robert, M., ed. Philosophical Perspectives on Sex and Love. Oxford: OUP, 1995.
- Stimpson, Catherine, and Ethel Spector Person, eds. Women, Sex and Sexuality. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980.
- Storr, Merl, ed. Bisexuality. London: Routledge, 1999.
- Weeks, Jeffrey, Janet Holland and Matthew Waites, eds. Sexualities and Society: a Reader. Cambridge: Polity, 2002.
- Female Sexuality:
  - Doan, Laura, ed. The Lesbian Postmodern. New York: Columbia UP, .
  - Freedman, Estelle B., Barbara C. Gelpi, Susan L. Johnson, and Kathleen M. Weston, eds. The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985.
  - Vance, Carole S., ed. Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality. London: Pandora, 1992.
- Queer Criticism:
  - Bennett, Paula, and Vernon Rosario, eds. Solitary Pleasures: the Historical, Literary, and Artistic Discourses of Autoeroticism.
  - Jay, Karla, and Joanne Glasgow, eds. Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions. New York: New York UP, 1990.
  - Munt, Sally, ed. New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings. New York: Columbia UP, 1992.
  - Wolfe, Susan J., and Julia Penelope, eds. Sexual Practice, Textual Theory: Lesbian Cultural Criticism. Oxford: Blackwell, .
  - Historical Studies:
    - Summers, Claude, ed. Homosexuality in Renaissance and Enlightenment England: Literary Representations in Historical Context.
Selected Individual Works:
- Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham: Duke UP, 2006.
- Dollimore, Jonathan. Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991.
- Edelman, Lee. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Durham: Duke UP, 2004.
- Green, Leslie. "Pornographies." The Journal of Political Philosophy 8.1 ( 2000.): .
- Hemmings, Clare. "Locating Bisexual Identities: Discourses of Bisexuality and Contemporary Feminist Theory." Mapping Desire: Geographies of Sexualities. Ed. David Bell and Gill Valentine. London: Routledge, 1995. 41-55.
- Hervé, Gérald. La Nuit des Olympica. Essai sur le national-cartésianisme. 1999.
- Hervé, Gérald. Orphée interdit. 1960.
- Hocquenghem, Guy. Le Desir Homosexuel. 1972.
  - Homosexual Desire. Durham: Duke UP, .
- Laqueur, Thomas. Solitary Sex: a History of Masturbation. London: Zone, 2003.
- Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1990.
- McWhorter, Ladelle. Bodies and Pleasures: Foucault and the Politics of Sexual Normalization. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1999.
- Middleton, Sue. Disciplining Sexuality: Foucault, Life Histories, and Education. Teachers College Press, 1997.
- Nagel, T. "Sexual Perversion." 1969.
  - Rpt. in The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings. Ed. Alan Soble. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.
- Povinelli, Elizabeth. The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality. Durham: Duke UP, 2006.
- Prosser, Jay. Second Skins.
- Shorter, Edward. Written in the Flesh: a History of Desire. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2005.
- Sruton, Roger. "Sexual Arousal." Practical Philosophy. Ed. A. Phillips Griffiths. London: Royal Institute of Philosophy, 1985. Rpt. as Chapter 2 "Arousal." Sexual Desire.
- Scruton, Roger. Sexual Desire: a Philosophical Investigation. London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. Pub. in USA as Sexual Desire: a Moral Philosophy of the Erotic. New York : Free Press, 1986.
- Spargo, Tamsin. Foucault and Queer Theory. Totem, 1999.
- Van Sevenant, Ann. Sexual Outercourse: Philosophy of Lovemaking. Peeters, 2005.
- Weeks, Jeffrey. The World We Have Won: the Remaking of Erotic and Intimate Life. London: Routledge, 2007.
- Weeks, Jeffrey. Making Sexual History. Cambridge: Polity, 2000.
- Weeks, Jeffrey. Invented Moralities. Sexual Values in an Age of Uncertainty. Cambridge: Polity, 1995.
- Weeks, Jeffrey. Against Nature: Essays on History, Sexuality and Identity. Rivers Oram Press, 1991.
- Weeks, Jeffrey. Sexuality. London: Tavistock, 1986.
- Weeks, Jeffrey. Sexuality and its Discontents: Meanings, Myths and Modern Sexualities. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.
- Weeks, Jeffrey. Sex, Politics, and Society: the Regulation of Sexuality since 1800. London: Longman, 1981.
- Weeks, Jeffrey. Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. Quartet, 1977.
- Weeks, Jeffrey, Brian Heaphy, and Catherine Donovan. Same Sex Intimacies: Families of Choice and other Life Experiments. London: Routledge, 2001.
- Weeks, Jeffrey, and Kevin Porter. Between the Acts. Lives of Homosexual Men 1885-1967. London: Routledge, 1990.
- Female Sexuality:
  - Allen, Jeffner. Lesbian Philosophy: Explorations. Palo Alto: Institute of Lesbian Studies, 1986.
  - Case, Sue-Ellen. "Toward a Butch-Femme Aesthetic." Discourse 11.1 (1988-1989): 55-71.
  - Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: a History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America. New York: Columbia UP, 1991.
  - Faderman, Lillian. Surpassing the Love of Men.
  - Halberstam, Judith. Female Masculinity.
  - Halberstam, Judith. In a Queer Time and Place.
  - Radicalesbians. "The Woman-Identified Woman."
    - Rpt. in Feminism in Our Time: the Essential Writings, World War II to the Present. Ed. Miriam Schneir. New York: Vintage, 1994. 160-167.
  - Roof, Judith. A Lure of Knowledge: Lesbian Sexuality and Theory. New York: Columbia UP, 1991.
  - Rubin, Gayle. "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality." Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality. Ed. Carole S. Vance. London: Pandora, 1992. 267-319.
- Queer Criticism:
  - Dollimore, Jonathan. Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991.
  - Edelman, Lee. Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory. 1994.
  - Kennard, Jean E. "Ourself Behind Ourself: a Theory for Lesbian Readers." Gender and Reading: Essays on Reading, Texts and Contexts. Ed. Elizabeth A. Flynn, and Patricinio Schweickart. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1986. 63-79.
  - Marks, Elaine. "Lesbian Intertextuality." Homosexualities and French Literature. Ed. Marks and George Stambolian. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1979.
  - Stimpson, Catherine R. "Zero Degree Deviancy: the Lesbian Novel in English." Critical Inquiry 8.2 (1981): 363-379.
    - Writing and Sexual Difference. Ed. Elizabeth Abel. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1982. 243-259.
  - Historical Studies:
    - Armstrong, Nancy. The Ideology of Conduct: Essays on Literature and the History of Sexuality.
    - Bredbeck, Gregory. Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare’s England.
    - Goldberg, Jonathan. Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

Anthologies:
- Bernstein, Elizabeth, and Laurie Schaffner, eds. Regulating Sex: the Politics of Intimacy and Identity. London: Routledge, 2004.
- Bullough Bonnie, Vern L. Bullough, and Elias James eds. Gender Blending. New York: Prometheus, 1997.
- Gallagher, Catherine, and Thomas Laqueur, eds. The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century. Berkeley: U of California P, 1987.
- Goldberg, Jonathan, ed. Queering the Renaissance
- Houlbrook, Matt, and Harry Cocks, eds. The Modern History of Sexuality. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005.
- Larmour, David H. J., Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter, eds. Rethinking Sexuality: Foucault and Classical Antiquity. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1998.
- Mortensen, Ellen, ed. Sex, Breath, and Force: Sexual Difference in a Post-Feminist Era. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.
- Muir, Edwin, et al., eds. Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective
- Rousseau, G. S., et al., eds. Sexual Underworlds of the Enlightenment.
- Soble, Alan, ed. Sex from Plato to Paglia: a Philosophical Encyclopedia. Greenwood, 2005.
- Sullivan, Nikki, ed. A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory.
- Turner, James, ed. Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe.
- Female Sexuality:
  - Zimmerman, Bonnie, ed. Lesbian Histories and Cultures: an Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 2000.
  - Zimmerman, Bonnie, and Toni A. H. McNaron, eds. The New Lesbian Studies: into the Twenty-First Century. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1996.
- Queer Criticism:
  - Haggerty, George E., and Bonnie Zimmerman, eds. Professions of Desire: Lesbian and Gay Studies in Literature. New York: MLA, 1995.
  - Malinowski, Sharon, ed. Gay and Lesbian Literature. London: St. James, 1994.
  - Summers, Claude, ed. The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: a Reader's Guide to the Writers and their Works, from Antiquity to the Present. New York: Holt, 1995.
Selected Individual Works:
- Bailey, J. Michael. The Man Who Would Be Queen: the Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism. Joseph Henry, .
- Berlant, Lauren, and Elizabeth Freeman. Queer Nationality. 1993.
- Boucé, Paul-Gabriel. Sexuality in Eighteenth Century Britain
- Bray, Alan. Homosexuality in Renaissance England
- Bristow, Joseph. Sexuality.
- Bullough, Vern L., and Bonnie Bullough. Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1993.
- Calvin, Thomas. Straight With a Twist: Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality. 2000.
- Carrigan, Tim, Bob Connell, and John Lee. “Towards a New Sociology of Masculinity.” Theory and Society 14 (1985): 551-604.
- Dreger, Alice Domurat. Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex. Boston: Harvard UP, 2000.
- Dreger, Alice Domurat. Intersex in the Age of Ethics. Hagerstown, MD: University Publishing Group, 1999.
- Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. New York: Basic, 2000.
- Garber, Marjorie. Vice-Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.
- Garber, Marjorie. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety. London: Routledge, 1992.
- Greenberg, David. The Construction of Homosexuality. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988.
- Kessler, Suzanne J. Lessons from the Intersexed. New Jersey: Rutgers UP, 1998.
- Maccubin, Robert. ‘Tis Nature’s Fault: Unauthorised Sexuality in the Enlightenment
- Meyerowitz, Joanne. How Sex Has Changed: a History of Transsexuality in the United States. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2002.
- Nardi, Peter. Social Perspectives in Lesbian and Gay Studies.
- Preves, Sharon. Intersex and Identity: the Contested Self. New Jersey: Rutgers UP, 2003.
- Soble, Alan. The Philosophy of Sex and Love: an Introduction. New York: Paragon, 1998.
- Stengers, Jean, and Anne Van Neck. Masturbation: the History of a Great Terror.
- Female Sexuality:
- Queer Criticism:
  - Lilly, Mark. Gay Men's Literature in the Twentieth Century. London: Macmillan, 1993.
  - Woods, Gregory. A History of Gay Literature. New Haven: Yale UP, 1998.