The Cambridge World History of Sexualities: Volume 3, Sites of Knowledge and Practice

Volume III provides in-depth analyses of specific times and places in the history of world sexualities, to investigate more closely the lived experience of individuals and groups to reveal the diversity of human sexualities. Comprising twenty-five chapters, this volume covers ancient Athens, Rome, and Constantinople; eighth- and ninth-century Chang'an, ninth- and tenth-century Baghdad, and tenth- through twelfth-century Kyoto; fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Iceland and Florence; sixteenth-century Tenochtitlan, Istanbul, and Geneva; eighteenth-century Edo, Paris, and Philadelphia; nineteenth-century Cairo, London, and Manila; late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Lagos, Bombay, Buenos Aires, and Berlin, and twentieth-century Sydney, Toronto, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro. Broad in range, this volume sheds light on continuities and changes in world sexualities across time and space.

About the Author

Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks is Distinguished Professor of History Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She acted as General Editor for the seven-volume Cambridge World History published in 2015. Other notable works include A Concise History of the World, Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, and Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World.

Mathew Kuefler is Professor of History Emeritus at San Diego State University. He is a broadly trained Medievalist who specializes in gender and sexuality and in LGBTQ+ history. From 2004 to 2014, he was the editor of the Journal of the History of Sexuality. Notable works include The Manly Eunuch, The Making and Unmaking of a Saint, and The History of Sexuality Sourcbook.