Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2014
1 Three important books that place the mollies in a larger context are Bray, Alan, Homosexuality in Renaissance England, 2d ed. (New York, 1995)Google Scholar; Hitchcock, Tim, English Sexualities, 1700–1800 (New York, 1997)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Trumbach, Randolph, Sex and the Gender Revolution, vol. 1, Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London (Chicago, 1998)Google Scholar.
2 Rediker, Marcus, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700–1750 (Cambridge, 1987)Google Scholar.
3 Foucault, Michel, The History of Sexuality, vol. 1, An Introduction, trans. Hurley, Robert (New York, 1978)Google Scholar; Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York, 1985)Google Scholar. Another influential work is Goldberg, Jonathan, Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities (Stanford, Calif., 1992)Google Scholar.