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The biopolitics of gender

which aims to firmly historicise the connections within specific cultural moments between sexuality and gender nonconformity, whilst simultaneously mapping them over time in order to challenge the received orthodoxy that male homosexuality only became recognizable in the wake of the Wilde trials. His reading is attentive to class and highlights the slippage in certain contexts between upper-class display and deviance. Caricature, it seems, invites a queer interpretation because it highlights the shifting nature of sexual representation through its ephemerality and the different readings it poses depending on who is doing the viewing. Oscar Wilde prefigured convincingly demonstrates how the form acted as much to expand and problematize acceptable standards of masculinity as to police them, a refreshing thesis amidst a preponderance of scholarship that takes prohibition and criminalization as its main focus of how homosexuality came into being as an identity. Janes capitalizes on the expansiveness and definitional ambiguity of the term ‘queer’ and its attendant methodology, and his work will be of interest to historians of sexuality and culture more broadly. The book is extremely readable and accessible to non-specialists while being so thorough in its research that it will be of considerable appeal to experts and those familiar with queer history. Janes tackles an impressive breadth of sources and navigates a space of over a hundred years with ease and a compelling style. While this book introduces readers to new evidence in the form of a largely overlooked genre, it also sheds new light on well-trodden ground, and the insights it draws are of no small significance to the field.