By: conductress

In reply to Adrian.

Yes, this! That’s a really fantastic book. Other fantastic books related to queer history:

– Regina Kunzel’s Criminal Intimacy (on the US prison system; like Canaday, she argues that fear of homosexuality in bureaucratic settings is central to the policing of heterosexuality)

Nancy Cott’s Public Vows (this one isn’t as directly related to gay history, but it’s about the history of marriage and the implications for gender and gender norms, so it’s relevant and also super interesting)