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Sex and the Archives: Current Work on Subordinate Identities and Early Modern Cultural Formation

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2012

Melissa Mowry
Melissa Mowry
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St. John's University
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , January 2005 , pp. 178 - 186
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2 For one version of this debate, see the exchange between Karras, Ruth Mazo, der Meer, Theo Van, and Freccero, Carla in Journal of Women's History 11, no. 2 (1999): 159–98CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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4 David M. Halperin, e.g., has argued that “we need to find ways of asking how different historical cultures fashioned different sorts of links between sexual acts, on the one hand, and sexual tastes, styles, dispositions, characters, gender presentations, and forms of subjectivity on the other hand.” “Forgetting Foucault: Acts, Identities, and the History of Sexuality,” Representations 63 (Summer 1998): 93–120, 109CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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