Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter Cover
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Chapter 1. Thinking Sex: Knowledge, Opacity, History 1
5. Part I. Making the History of Sexuality
6. Chapter 2. Friendship’s Loss: Alan Bray’s Making of History 37
7. Chapter 3. The New Unhistoricism in Queer Studies 57
8. Chapter 4. The Present Future of Lesbian Historiography 82
9. Part II. Scenes of Instruction; or, Early Modern Sex Acts
10. Chapter 5. The Joys of Martha Joyless: Queer Pedagogy and the (Early Modern) Production of Sexual Knowledge 103
11. Chapter 6. Sex in the Interdisciplines 125
12. Chapter 7. Talking Sex 171
13. Part III. The Stakes of Gender
14. Chapter 8. Shakespeare’s Sex 229
15. Chapter 9. The Sign of the Lesbian 265
16. Chapter 10. Sex Ed; or, Teach Me Tonight 294
17. Notes 325
18. Bibliography 407
19. Index 447
20. Acknowledgments 459