LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives

LGBT Victorians argues for re-visiting the Victorian era's thinking about gender and sexual identity.

We think of those whose primary self-definition is in terms of sexuality (lesbians, gay men, bisexuals) and those for whom it is gender identity (intersex and transgender people, genderqueers) as simultaneously in coalition and distinct from each other. Re-examining how the Victorians considered such identity categories to have produced and shaped each other can ground a more durable basis ...