Disturbing practices : history, sexuality, and women's experience of modern war / Laura Doan.

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2013]

xiv, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction: History and sexuality/sexuality and history -- The practice of sexual history -- An uncommon project: The discipline problem reconsidered -- Genealogy inside and out -- Practicing sexual history -- Topsy-turvydom: Gender, sexuality, and the problem of categorization -- "We cannot use that word": On the habits of naming, name calling and self-naming -- Normal soap and elastic hymens: Historicizing the modern norms of sexuality.

Includes bibliographical references and index.