Sexual and gender difference in the British Navy, 1690-1900 / edited by Seth Stein LeJacq.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

LeJacq, Seth, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Royal Navy--Conduct of life--History--18th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain. Royal Navy--Conduct of life--History--19th century.

Great Britain. Royal Navy--Gay people--History.

Sailors--England--Social conditions--18th century.

Sailors.

Sailors--England--Social conditions--19th century.

Great Britain--History, Naval--18th century.

Great Britain--History, Naval--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 409 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Seth LeJacq is a Lecturing Fellow at Duke University, USA. He has published extensively on the Royal Navy's efforts to suppress sex between males and undertakes public engagement related to this history.

Contents:

"The Unnatural and Detestable Sin": The Ban on Same-Sex Contact in the Articles of War (1661 and 1749)

"He was Pleased with all his other Attempts upon Him": Relationships between Three Sailors from HMS Expedition (1705)

Vigilante Violence: An Attack on a Member of the "Vile Clan" (1731)

Avoiding Trial: A Newspaper Reports Discretionary Punishments (1735)

Sex in the Foretop: The trial of Hugh Ducaty and William Tofts (1738)

"A Very Extraordinary Kind of Sea Discipline": "Amazonian" Women Punish Buggery on HMS Princess Amelia (1742)

Punishing and Permitting Same-Sex Acts at Sea: Press Coverage (1747, 1757)

Executing a Boy for Buggery: The George Newton and Thomas Finley Trial (1761)

"I Did What I Had no Right to Do": Captain Graham Moore Chooses Summary Punishment (1788, 1793)

"Striking Examples": The Admiralty Attempts to Punish Marine James Parker (1811)

How to Prosecute Same-Sex Acts: Naval Jurist John McArthur on Buggery at Sea (1813)

"The Last Person in the Ship I Should Have Suspected": The Trial of Seaman Thomas Randall (1815)

"A Tragic Incident": Lieutenant John Towne's Account of a Buggery Hanging (1833)

Part 2: Queer Tars

"It was much better to lay with one another": Quartermaster Thomas Pike Plans an Assignation on HMS York (1701)

"An Odd Affair which Lately Happened": A Cross-Dressing Cabin Boy (1739)

"A Backdoor Man": Marine Officers Fight over Masculinity in a Plymouth Tavern (1755)

"Tender Expressions... Not Becoming Men": Intimacy Between Officers on HMS Raven (1775)

"The Little Female Tar": A Cross-Dressing Sailor Testifies in a Buggery Trial (1809)

"A Correspondence... Not Fit to be Named": Tobias Smollett's Captain Whiffle and Mr. Simper (1748)

"I am No Man to be Tried by a Court Martial": A Sailor Pleads "Neutrality of Gender" (1803)

"The Childish Vice of Boys": Adolescent Sexual Activity Aboard HMS Africaine (1816)

"A Thorn Has Been Given Him In the Flesh": Naval Officer James Woolls Describes His Same-Sex Desire (1818)

Part 3: In Print

Reports of Same-Sex Acts in Seventeenth-Century Newspapers (1650, 1654)

"Any Port in a Storm": A Sailor Risks Sodomy in Fanny Hill (1748)

The Lieutenant Thomas Wye Affair: A Buggery Case on Shore (1755-56)

"Indecent Familiarities with Mankind": William Benbow Recalls the Captain Charles Sawyer Scandal (1823)

"A Case of Unparalleled Hardship": Lieutenant Arthur W. Adair Appeals to the Nation for Justice (1807, 1809)

"A Full Acquittal": Captain Thomas G. Muston Insists on his Innocence in Print (1812)

"Familiarity with Gross Pollution": Captain Edward Hawker on Female Sex Workers and Same-Sex Intimacy in the Navy (1821)

Part 4: Naval Buggery Scandals

"Is It Not What Great Men Do?": The Edward Rigby Scandal (1698)

The HMS Stag Affair: Captain Henry Angel is Arrested by His Officers (1762, 1805)

"But for this Detestable Propensity": Lieutenant William Berry (1807)

"Guilty of an Abominable Offence": Naval Surgeon James Nehemiah Taylor (1809)

Part 5: "A Man F

g Ship": The Same-Sex Subculture on HMS Africaine

Sworn Statements from the Officers' Investigation on HMS Africaine (October-November 1815)

Sworn Statements from the Admiralty's investigation (December 1815)

Admiral Edward Thornbrough's Report on the Africaine Punishments (1816)

Press Coverage of the Africaine Trials and Punishments

Part 6: The Victorian Navy

"Considered the Prisoner as a Father": The Lieutenant Richard Inman Scandal (1838)

"So Full an Acquittal": The Trials of Lieutenant Lionel R. Place (1842)

"To Throw Himself Upon the Protection of the Publick": Defending Lieutenant Henry Stokes (1844-1845)

"Revolting Charges Against a Naval Officer": Lieutenant George Armitage Brings a Perjury Accusation (1862-1864)

"Charged with Insobriety and Indecency": The Trial of Lieutenant Frederick W. Kuper (1871)

"Foul Offence and Exemplary Punishment": The Trial and Flight of Navigating Sub-Lieutenant William Renwick (1873)

"In the Water Closet of a Café at Gibraltar": The Trial of Seamen Robert Simpson and Henry Keenor (1874).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 20, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: Sexual and gender difference in the British Navy, 1690-1900

ISBN:

9781003433606

100343360X

9781000955958

1000955958

9781000955934

1000955931

Publisher Number:

40032190294

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