K. O'Donnell – författare

This book gathers the most recent scholarship on the historicization of masculinity by the most original and widely respected thinkers in the field. By using the analytical tools of Queer Theory these interdisciplinary scholars have reconfigured the history of sexuality in radically altering how we think about sexuality and how we write history.

This volume gathers scholarship on the historicization of masculinity by thinkers in this relatively new field. By using the analytical tools of queer theory, these international, interdisciplinary scholars have reconfigured the history of sexuality in radically altering how we think about sexuality and how we write history. This book answers and raises questions about male love, sex, friendship and intimacy in the early modern era. It is a revaluation on that takes into account how widely this matter has been debated since the 1990s and is a useful contribution to gay, lesbian and queer studies; sexual, social and cultural history; and early modern and enlightenment studies more generally.

This book offers the most up to the minute snapshot of scholarship on queer/gay historiographies in a number of geographical regions in western Europe, Asia and the US. It features the work of the most established scholars in the field of the history of same-sex desire and promises to take the study of same-sex relations in the early modern period in radical new directions.

This book provides a much-needed historiographical overview of modern Irish History, which is  often written mainly from a socio-political perspective. This guide offers a comprehensive account of Irish History in its manifold aspects such as family, famine, labour, institutional, women, cultural, art, identity and migration histories.