Sexuality in History
A Bibliography
by Michael H. Burchett
Aristophanes (Douglas Parker, Trans.). Lysistrata (New York: New American Library, 1986).
A Sappho Companion (2001).
Barnard, Mary. Sappho: A New Translation (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988).
Bennett, Paula. Solitary Pleasures: The Historical, Literary and Artistic Discourses of Autoeroticism (Routledge, 1995).
Boedeker, Deborah Dickmann. Aphrodite's entry into Greek epic (Brill, yr. unknown).
Boswell, John. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981).
Bremmer, Jan. From Sappho to De Sade: Moments in the History of Sexuality (New York: Routledge, 1991).
Brown, Peter. The Body and Society (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988).
Caligula (Unrated Version) (DVD: Image Entertainment, 1999).
Cantarella, Eva. Bisexuality in the Ancient World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992).
Danielou, Alain. The Complete Kama Sutra: The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text (Inner Traditions International Ltd., 1995).
D'Emelio, John. Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (University of Chicago Press, 1997).
Dover, Kenneth J. Greek Homosexuality (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989).
Flaceliere, Robert. Love in ancient Greece (Greenwood Press, 1973).
Halperin, David M., et al. (eds). Before Sexuality (Princeton University Press, 1991).
Halperin, David M. One Hundred Years of Homosexuality (New York: Routledge, 1990).
History of Sex (VHS Cassette, 4 Vols.: A&E Entertainment, 1999).
Hunt, Lynn Avery. The Invention of Pornography, 1500-1800 (Zone Books, 1996).
Kendrick, Walter. The Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture (University of California Press, 1996).
Laqueur, Thomas W. Solitary Sex : A Cultural History of Masturbation (Zone Books, 2003).
Moulton, Ian Frederick. Before Pornography: Erotic Writing in Early Modern England (Studies in the History of Sexuality) (Cambridge: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Ovid. The Art of Love (Modern Library Classics) (Modern Library, 2002).
Pagels, Elaine Adam, Eve, and the Serpent (New York; Vintage Books, 1989).
Playboy (monthly periodical: New York, 1953- ).
Richlin, Amy The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).
Richlin, Amy. Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).
Rousselle, Aline. Porneia: On Desire and the Body in Antiquity (Blackwell Publishers, 1993).
Sade, Marquis de. Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Other Writings (New York: Grove Press, 1990).
___________ The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings (New York: Grove Press, 1987).
___________ The Ghosts of Sodom : The Secret Journals of the Marquis de Sade (Creation Books, 2003).
Sigel, Lisa Z. Governing Pleasures: Pornography and Social Change in England, 1815-1914 (Rutgers University Press, 2002).
Sissa, Giulia. Greek Virginity (Revealing Antiquity, 3) (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990).
Strossen, Nadine. Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights (New York: NYU Press, 2000).
Williams, Linda. Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the "Frenzy of the Visible" (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).
Winkler, John J. Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece (New York: Routledge, 1990).
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