KATHERINE O'DONNELL is Lecturer in Feminist Theory in the Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre (WERRC) at University College Dublin. She has published several articles on Eighteenth-Century Ireland. MICHAEL O'ROURKE is a teaching Fellow in the School of English at University College Dublin. With Katherine O'Donnell, he edited Love, Sex, Friendship and Intimacy Between Men, 1550-1800 (Palgrave 2003). He has published several articles on gender theory and French philosophy.

• Preface; G.Rousseau Introduction; M.O'Rourke Searching in the Dark: Towards a Historiography of Queer Early Modern and Enlightenment (Anglo) Ireland; C.Mounsey Faust's Transgressions: Male-Male Desire in Early Modern Germany; R.D.Tobin The Historiography of Male-Male Love in Portugal, 1550 to 1800; D.Higgs 'People Like Us': Early Modern Homosexuality in Holland; T.Van der Meer Almost Nothing: Male-Male Sex in Denmark, 1550-1800; W.Von Rosen A State of Sin: Switzerland and the Early Modern Imaginary; H.Puff Can we 'Queer' Early Modern Russia?; D.Healey Male Homosexuality in Early Modern Japan: The State of the Scholarship; G.P.Leupp Colliding Cultures: Masculinity and Homoeroticism in Mughal and Early Colonial South Asia; W.Penrose Colonial Latin America; M.A.Nesvig 'Sodomitical Actings', 'Inward Disposition', and 'The Bonds of Brotherly Affection': Sexual and Emotional Intimacy Between Men in Colonial and Revolutionary America; R.Godbeer Homosexuality in Early Modern France; M.Sibalis Between Men in Early Modern England; G.V.Stanivukovic Index

KATHERINE O'DONNELL is Lecturer in Feminist Theory in the Women's Education, Research and Resource Centre (WERRC) at University College Dublin. She has published several articles on Eighteenth-Century Ireland. MICHAEL O'ROURKE is a teaching Fellow in the School of English at University College Dublin. With Katherine O'Donnell, he edited Love, Sex, Friendship and Intimacy Between Men, 1550-1800 (Palgrave 2003). He has published several articles on gender theory and French philosophy.

• Preface; G.Rousseau Introduction; M.O'Rourke Searching in the Dark: Towards a Historiography of Queer Early Modern and Enlightenment (Anglo) Ireland; C.Mounsey Faust's Transgressions: Male-Male Desire in Early Modern Germany; R.D.Tobin The Historiography of Male-Male Love in Portugal, 1550 to 1800; D.Higgs 'People Like Us': Early Modern Homosexuality in Holland; T.Van der Meer Almost Nothing: Male-Male Sex in Denmark, 1550-1800; W.Von Rosen A State of Sin: Switzerland and the Early Modern Imaginary; H.Puff Can we 'Queer' Early Modern Russia?; D.Healey Male Homosexuality in Early Modern Japan: The State of the Scholarship; G.P.Leupp Colliding Cultures: Masculinity and Homoeroticism in Mughal and Early Colonial South Asia; W.Penrose Colonial Latin America; M.A.Nesvig 'Sodomitical Actings', 'Inward Disposition', and 'The Bonds of Brotherly Affection': Sexual and Emotional Intimacy Between Men in Colonial and Revolutionary America; R.Godbeer Homosexuality in Early Modern France; M.Sibalis Between Men in Early Modern England; G.V.Stanivukovic Index