Merry Wiesner-Hanks & Mathew Kuefler in the Politics & Rights Review:
The women’s and gay liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s inspired the first professional historians of sexuality. Many of them specialized in the modern histories of Europe and the United States, and they theorized mainly from the modern Western experience. This is beginning to change: the field has expanded to incorporate premodern histories and histories in all regions of the world, becoming increasingly transhistorical and global.
World and global history have encouraged broad cross-cultural comparisons and the study of longue durée trends, developments now also seen in the history of sexuality. Historians can now move beyond concentrated specializations in one time and place to create a more comprehensive image of sexuality throughout human history, which is what the Cambridge World History of Sexualities is designed to do.
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