Queer Sexuality
Desire, Identity, and the Politics of the Body
The category of the normal in sexual life is recent, contested, and far from neutral. These books approach that category from several directions — historical, medical, theological, philosophical, and utopian — tracking how desire has been classified, condemned, pathologised, tolerated, and theorised across very different social worlds. The questions they raise are not only about sexuality: they are about how any society draws the line between the licit and the deviant, and who bears the cost of that line being drawn where it is.
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: The Will to Knowledge. Pantheon Books, 1978.