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LGBTQ History Dissertations If you have completed or are in the process of completing a relevant dissertation, please send bibliographic information to CLGH Web Manager, Martin Meeker at: Martin_Meeker@yahoo.com. The following list of LGBTQ history dissertations is arranged in chronological order. It is based on information supplied by CLGH members and other LGBTQ historians. The list includes dissertations described by their authors as "fully" or "partially" focussed on LGBTQ history. 1978 Salvatore John Licata Gay
Power: A History of the American Gay Movement,
1908–1974. 1980 Ramon A. Gutierrez Marriage,
Sex, and the Family: Social Change in Colonial New Mexico,
1690-1846. 1982 John D'Emilio Out of
the Shadows: The Homosexual Emancipation Movement in the United
States. 1984 Michael Lombardi The
Translation of the Works by Karl Heinrich Ulrichs with Special Emphasis
on Research on the Riddle of Man-Manly Love. 1989 George Chauncey Gay New
York: Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male World,
1890–1940. 1990 Susan A. Cahn Coming
On Srong: Gender and Sexuality in Women's Sport. Sharon Ullman Broken
Silences: Sex and Culture in Turn of the Century
America. Kevin F. White The
Flapper's Boyfriend: The Revolution in Morals and the Emergence of
Modern American Male Sexuality, 1910-1930. 1991 Will Roscoe The Zuni
Man-Woman: An Ethnohistorical Study of a Third Gender Role.
University of California at Santa Cruz, History of
Consciousness. 1992 Lisa Duggan The
Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sex, Science, and Sensationalism in Turn of
the Century America. Les Wright The
Chiasmic Bind: Comparative Studies in Contemporary Gay Male
Subjectivities. 1993 Leisa Meyer Creating
G. I. Jane: The Women's Army Corps During World War
II. Kevin J. Mumford From
Vice to Vogue: Black/White Sexuality and the 1920s. Vernon Rosario Doctors,
Patients, and Novelists: Narrating the Erotic Imagination in
Nineteenth-Century France. 1994 Rudi Bleys Male-to-Male
Sexual Behaviour and the Ethnographic Imagination,
1750–1918. Matthew Harvey Sommer Sex,
Law, and Society in Late Imperial China. Marc Stein The City
of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: The Making of Lesbian and Gay Movements
in Greater Philadelphia, 1945–1972. Juan Antonio Suarez Avant-garde
Cinema and Mass Culture: The 1960s American Underground. John Donald Wrathal American
Manhood and the Y.M.C.A., 1868–1920. 1995 Nan Alamilla Boyd San
Francisco Was A Wide Open Town: Charting the Emergence of Gay and
Lesbian Communities Through the Mid-Twentieth Century. Scott Bravmann Queer
Fictions of the Past. Andrea Friedman Prurient
Interests: Anti-Obscenity Campaigns in New York City,
1909–1945. Katie Gilmartin The Very
House of Difference: Intersections of Identities in the Life Histories
of Colorado Lesbians, 1940–1965. 1996 Jane Gerhard Desiring
Revolution: Second Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual
Thought, 1920–1980. James N. Green Beyond
Carnival: Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil. Gregory M. Pflugfelder Cartographies
of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse,
1600–1950. William B. Turner Sex and
the American Subject: Foucault's Impact on Feminist and Lesbian/Gay
Scholars. Anne Valk Separatism
and Sisterhood: Race, Sex, and Women's Activism in 1997 Brett Beemyn A Queer
Capital: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Life in Washington, D.C.,
1890–1955. John Howard Men Like
That: Male Homosexualities in Mississippi, 1945–1985. William A. Peniston Pederasts
and Others: A Social History of Male Homosexuality in the Early Years of
the French Third Republic. 1998 Elizabeth Clement Trick or
Treat: Prostitution and Working-Class Women's Sexuality in NYC,
1900–1932. Jennifer Gilbert Diversity,
Difference and Power: The National Organization for Women and the
Politics of Identity, 1966–1976. David Michael Robinson To
Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before: The Representation of Lesbianism
in Mid-Seventeenth- to Early Eighteenth-Century British and French
Literature. 1999 Randolph W. Baxter Eradicating
This Menace: Homophobia and Anti-Communism in Congress,
1947–1954. Stacy L. Braukman Anticommunism
and the Politics of Race and Sex in Florida,
1954–1965. Melissa J. Doak "She
Will Never Get Well While Doing Anything 'Unnatural'": Women's Sexual
Deviance and Institutional Psychiatry in New York City,
1890-1920. David Michael Lugowski Queering
the (New) Deal: Lesbian, Gay and Queer Representation in United States
Cinema of the Great Depression, 1929-1941. Yolanda Retter On the
Side of Angels: Lesbian Activism in Los Angeles,
1970-1990. David Serlin Built
for Living: Imagining the American Body Through Medical Science,
1945–65. 2000 Brett Abrams Horray
for Hollywood: Gender and Sexual Non-Conformity During the Classical
Hollywood Era. David Churchill When
Home Became Away: American Expatriates and New Social Movements in
Toronto, 1965–1977. Deborah Gould Sex,
Death, and the Politics of Anger: Emotions and Reason in ACT UP's Fight
Against AIDS. Chad Heap Slumming:
Sexuality, Race and Urban Commercial Leisure,
1900–1940. David K. Johnson The
Lavender Scare: Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Civil
Service, 1945–1975. Karen C. Krahulik Cape
Queer: The Politics of Sex, Race, and Class in Provincetown,
Massachusetts, 1859–1999. Martin Meeker Come Out
West: Communication and the Gay and Lesbian Migration to San Francisco,
1940s–1960s. Meredith Wood ReSisters
in Crime: Politics and Sexuality in Lesbian Detective
Fiction. 2001 Elise Chenier Stranger
in Our Midst: Male Sexual Deviance' in Postwar Ontario. Karen Duder The
Spreading Depths: Lesbians and Bisexual Women in English Canada,
1910-1965. Jennifer V. Evans Reconstruction
Sites: Sexuality, Citizenship, and the Limits of National Belonging in
Divided Berlin, 1944-58. Scott Gunther The
Elastic Closet: Legal Censure and Auto-Censure of Homosexuality in
France. David Hurewitz Made in
Edendale: Bohemian Los Angeles and the Politics of Sexual Identity,
1918-1953. Kevin P. Murphy The
Manly World of Urban Reform: Political Manhood and the New Politics of
Progressivism in New York City, 1877-1916. William Poulin-Deltour Le Gai
Paris Gay? Making Sense of American Influence on Contemporary French Gay
Activism. Horacio N. Roque Ramírez Communities
of Desire: Queer Latina/Latino History and Memory, San Francisco Bay
Area, 1960s-1990s. Kevin Reilly The
Interpretation of Paul and the Social Construction of
Sexuality. Jens Rydstrm Sinners
and Citizens: Bestiality and Homosexuality in Sweden 1880-1950.
Stockholm University, History. Supervisor: Anders
Berge. 2002 Cristian Berco Uncovering
the Unmentionable Vice: Male Homosexuality, Race, and Class in Golden
Age Spain. Jennifer Brier Infectious
Ideas: AIDS and the Politics of Conservatism in the 1980s. Rutgers
University, History. Supervisor: Alice Kessler-Harris. Eliza Starr Byard Inverts,
Perverts, and National Peril: Federal Responses to Homosexuality,
1890-1956. Paul Jackson Courting
Homosexuals in the Military: The Management of Homosexuality in the
Canadian Military during the Second World War. Tirza Latimer Looking
Like a Lesbian: Portraiture and Sexual Politics in Paris Between the
Wars. Heather Lee Miller The
Teeming Brothel: Sex Acts, Desires, and Sexual Identities in the United
States, 1870-1940. 2003 Ian Lekus Queer
and Present Dangers: Homosexuality and American Antiwar Activism during
the Vietnam Era. Colin Johnson Columbia's
Orient: Intimacy, Geography and the Invention of Heterosexuality in
Rural America. David D. Doyle, Jr. The
Dandy and the Aesthete: Middle and Upper Class Gay Male Subcultures in
19th Century America. Greta Rensenbrink Reshaping
Body Politics: Lesbian Feminism and the Cultural Politics of the Body,
1968-1983. Charles Upchurch ‘ ...and
every Solicitation, Persuasion, Promise, or Threat’: David James Prickett Body Crisis, Identity Crisis: Homosexuality and Aesthetics in Wilhelmine- and Weimar Germany.
Margot Canaday The
Straight State: Sexuality and American Citizenship Before Stonewall.
University of Minnesota, History. Supervisor: Sara
Evans. Kenneth W. Cimino Gay
Assimilation: The Group Consciousness of Gay Conservatives
Marcia Gallo Different
Daughters: The Daughters of Bilitis and the Roots of Lesbian and Women's
Liberation, 1955-1970. Paul Herman How the
Homosexual Became Dangerous: The Cultural Understanding of Male
Homosexuality in the United States, 1890-1977. Terence Kissack Anarchism and The Politics of Homosexuality. J. Todd Ormsby Experience
and Sexuality: Gay Male Publicity, Community and Meaning in 1960s
San Francisco.
C. Todd White
"Out of Many...": A Social History of the Movement for Homosexual Rights. Nicholas L. Syrett
The Company He Keeps: White College Fraternities, Masculinity, and Power, 1825-1975.
Leslie Jansen
When Clothes Do Not Make the Man: Female Masculinity and Nationalism in Eighteenth Century British Literature. James E. Kollenbroich
Our Hour Has Come: The Homosexual Emancipation Movement in the Weimar Republic. Amanda H. Littauer
Unsanctioned Encounters: Women, Girls, and Non-Marital Sexuality in the United States, 1941--1963. Craig Loftin
Passionate Anxieties: McCarthyism and Homosexual Identities in the United States, 1945-1965. Don Romesburg
Arrested Development: Homosexuality, Gender, and American Adolescence, 1890-1930.
Amber R. Clifford-Napoleone
Queering the Inferno: Space, Identity, and Kansas City's Jazz Scene. Phil Tiemeyer
Manhood Up in the Air: Gender, Sexuality, Corporate Culture, and the Law in 20th Century America. Howell Williams
Homosexuality and the American Catholic Church: Reconfiguring the Silence, 1971-1999.
Richard Clark
Gay New Orleans, 1917-1977. Eduardo Contreras
Revitalizing Missions: Community Development, Ethnoracial Politics, and Sexuality in San Francisco, 1960-1980. Mary Gebhart
Trans-forming Feminism: The Michigan Womyn's Music Festival and the Challenge of Liminal Bodies. Andrea Lowgren
Street Reputations: Mapping Women's Sexuality in San Francisco, 1930-1965. Steven Maynard
Toronto the Gay: Homosexuality and Power in Urban Ontario, 1890-1940. Katherine Perdue
Writing Identity: The Letters of Drs. Frieda Fraser and Edith Bickerton Williams, 1924-1970. Brock Thompson
An Un-Natural State: Same-sex desire in Arkansas, the Depression through the Clinton Era. Red Vaughan Tremmel
Gangsters, Gamblers and Other Queers: The Sexual and Political Economy of the Postwar U.S., 1945-1975. Pablo Ben
Male Sexuality, the Popular Classes, and the State in Buenos Aires, 1880-1955. Timothy Stewart-Winter
Queer Citizens, Queer Clout: Lesbians, Gay Men, and Chicago Political Culture, 1960s-1990s. Gillian Frank
"Save Our Children": The Sexual Politics of Child Protection in the United States, 1965-1990. Catherine Batza
Before AIDS: The Gay and Lesbian Community Health Movement in the 1970s. |
