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Frontmatter

History's Queer Stories Pub Date : 2018-12-31 DOI: 10.1515/9783839445433-fm

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“No Sense of a Tidy Ending”: Resisting Closure “没有整洁结局的感觉”:拒绝结束

History's Queer Stories Pub Date : 2018-12-31 DOI: 10.14361/9783839445433-007

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“People’s Pasts [are] so Much More Interesting than Their Futures” – Re-Negotiating the Homosexual Problem Novel “人们的过去比他们的未来有趣得多”-同性恋问题小说的重新谈判

History's Queer Stories Pub Date : 2018-12-31 DOI: 10.14361/9783839445433-004

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Index 指数

History's Queer Stories Pub Date : 2018-12-31 DOI: 10.1515/9783839445433-009

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Frontmatter

History's Queer Stories Pub Date : 2018-12-31 DOI: 10.14361/9783839445433-fm

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List of Abbreviations 缩略语一览表

History's Queer Stories Pub Date : 2018-12-31 DOI: 10.1515/9783839445433-002

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“The Collapse of a Wall [...] Starts with a Few Loose Bricks” – Queering Space, Body and Time “一堵墙的倒塌……从几块松动的砖块开始”——古怪的空间、身体和时间

History's Queer Stories Pub Date : 2018-12-31 DOI: 10.14361/9783839445433-006

S. Waters

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Introduction: “Never in the History of Sex was so Much Offered to so Many by so Few” 导言:“在性的历史上，从来没有这么少的人向这么多的人提供这么多的东西。”

History's Queer Stories Pub Date : 2018-12-31 DOI: 10.14361/9783839445433-003

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History's Queer Stories Pub Date : 2018-12-31 DOI: 10.14361/9783839445433-009

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“We Have to Do the Things They Tell Us” – Nation, Masculinity and War “我们必须做他们告诉我们的事”-国家，男子气概和战争

History's Queer Stories Pub Date : 2018-12-31 DOI: 10.14361/9783839445433-005

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