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Queering HPS - Topical Reading Lists

Queer Darwin - Contributed by Ross Brooks
  • Bauer, J. Edgar (2012). Hirschfeld: Sexology and the Reassessment of Evolutionary Theory as a Non-Essentialist Naturalism
  • Brooks, Ross (2021). Darwin’s Closet: The Queer Sides of The Descent of Man (1871)
  • Brooks, Ross (2015). One «Both» Sex«es»: Observations, suppositions, and airy speculations on fetal sex anatomy in British scientific literature, 1794-1871
  • Brooks, Ross (2019). LINK GOES TO PDF-  Queer Birds: Avian Sex Reversal and the Origins of Modern Sexology 
  • Brooks, Ross (2012). Transforming Sexuality: The Medical Sources of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825-95) and the Origins of the Theory of Bisexuality
  • Brooks, Ross (2009). All Too Human: Responses to Same-Sex Copulation in the Common Cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha (L.)), 1834-1900
  • Davis, Whitney (2010). Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond
  • Morris, Andrew R. (1993). Oscar Wilde and the Eclipse of Darwinism: Aestheticism, Degeneration, and Moral Reaction in Late-Victorian Ideology
Queer Genetics - Contributed by Ross Brooks
  • Allen, Garland E. (1997). The Double-Edged Sword of Genetic Determinism: Social and Political Agendas in Genetic Studies of Homosexuality, 1940-1994
  • Campos, Luis (2010). LINK TO PDF - Mutant Sexuality: The Private Life of a Plant
  • Dietrich, Michael R. (2016). Experimenting with Sex: Four Approaches to the Genetics of Sex Reversal before 1950
  • Dietrich, Michael R. (2000). Of Moths and Men: Theo Lang and the Persistence of Richard Goldschmidt’s Theory of Homosexuality, 1916-1960
  • Linge, Ina (2020). The Potency of the Butterfly: The Reception of Richard B. Goldschmidt’s Animal Experiments in German Sexology around 1920
Animal behaviour/queer ecology - Contributed by Ross Brooks
  • Adriaens, Pieter R. (2019). In Defence of Animal Homosexuality
  • Bagemihl, Bruce (1999). Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity
  • Brooks, Ross (2009). All Too Human: Responses to Same-Sex Copulation in the Common Cockchafer (Melolontha melolontha (L.)), 1834-1900
  • Brooks, Ross (2019). LINK GOES TO PDF - Queer Birds: Avian Sex Reversal and the Origins of Modern Sexology
  • Lancaster, Roger N. (2003). The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture
  • Pettit, Michael (2012). The Queer Life of a Lab Rat
  • Mills, Brett (2013). The Animals Went In Two by Two: Heteronormativity in Television Wildlife Documentaries
  • Mortimer-Sandilands, Catriona, and Bruce Erickson (2010). Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire
  • Russell, Douglas G. D., William J. L. Sladen, and David G. Ainley (2012). Dr. George Murray Levick (1876-1956): Unpublished Notes on the Sexual Habits of the Adélie Penguin
  • Terry, Jennifer (2000). "Unnatural Acts” in Nature: The Scientific Fascination with Queer Animals
  • Zuk, Marlene (2002). Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can’t Learn about Sex from Animals
Eugenics and Sexuality - Contributed by Ross Brooks
  • Allen, Garland E. (1997). The Double-Edged Sword of Genetic Determinism: Social and Political Agendas in Genetic Studies of Homosexuality, 1940-1994
  • Brennan, Toni (2015). Eugenics and Sexology
  • Giles, Geoffrey J. (1992). ‘The Most Unkindest Cut of All”: Castration, Homosexuality and Nazi Justice
  • Grau, Günter (1993). Hidden Holocaust? Gay and Lesbian Persecution in Germany 1933-45, trans. Patrick Camiller
  • Honkasalo, Julian (2016). When Boys Will Not Be Boys: American Eugenics and the Formation of Gender Nonconformity as Psychopathology
  • Lair, Liam Oliver (2016). Disciplining Diagnoses: Sexology, Eugenics, and Trans* Subjectivities’
  • Meer, Theo van der (2014). Voluntary and Therapeutic Castration of Sex Offenders in The Netherlands (1938-1968)
  • Meer, Theo van der (2008). Eugenic and Sexual Folklores and the Castration of Sex Offenders in the Netherlands
  • Mildenberger, Florian G. (2012). Socialist Eugenics and Homosexuality in the GDR: The Case of Günter Dörner
  • Ordover, Nancy (2003). American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism
  • Stern, Alexandra Minna (2010). Gender and Sexuality: A Global Tour and Compass
  • Wessel, Merle (2015). Castration of Male Sex Offenders in the Nordic Welfare State in the Context of Homosexuality and Heteronormativity, 1930-1955
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