Introduction: Queer 50s; H.Bauer & M.Cook PART I: ESPISTEMOLOGIES Sexology Backward: Hirschfeld, Kinsey and the Reshaping of Sex Research in the 1950s; H.Bauer 'Someone to Love': Teen Girls' Same-Sex Desire in the 1950s United States; A.H.Littauer Lesbians before 'the Lesbian', 'Sisters' in Faith and Crime: Conceptualisations of Cross-generational Sexual Relationships in Two Women's Same-sex Fornication Court Cases in 1950s Rural Finland; A.Sorainen PART II: REPRESENTATIONS 'Who Is She?': Identities, Intertextuality and Authority in Non-Fiction Lesbian Pulp of the 1950s; K.Mitchell Love 'Off the Rails' or 'Over the Teacups'?: Lesbian Desire and Female Sexualities in the 1950s Popular Press; A.Oram Nouveau Désordre: Diabolical Queerness in 1950s French Cinema; A.Asibong PART III: REASSESSMENTS Moral Panic or Critical Mass?: The Queer Contradictions of 1950s New Zealand; C.Brickell Queer Profits: Homosexual Scandal and the Origins of Legal Reform in Britain; J.Bengry The Long 1950s as Radical-in-Between; J.V.Evans PART IV: LEGACIES Warm Homes in a Cold Climate: Rex Batten and the Queer Domestic; M.Cook Geeks and Gaffs: The Queer Legacy of the 1950s American Freak Show; E.Stephens