Journal of the History of Sexuality articles from April 2004

Journal of the History of Sexuality archives from April 2004

Editors' note: Barbara Loomis and William N. Bonds.
April 1, 2004... CALL FOR REVIEWERS We invite you to help maintain the high standards of the Journal of the History of Sexuality by adding your name to our list of expert reviewers to referee manuscripts for potential publication and to review recently...

"Wearing out a pair of fool's shoes": sexual advice for youth in Holland's Golden Age.
April 1, 2004... DURING THE LATE sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the cities of the Dutch Republic experienced a population explosion. Leiden grew from 26,000 inhabitants in 1600 to 60,000 in 1647, and Amsterdam swelled from 60,000 to 140,000 in the...

William Acton's antipodean disciples: a colonial perspective on his theories of male sexual (dys)function.
April 1, 2004... The rank and file of doctors are no more scientific than their tailors.... Doctoring is an art, not a science: any layman who is interested in science sufficiently to take in one of the scientific journals and follow the literature of the...

"This intricate commerce of souls": the origins and some early expressions of Lytton Strachey's ethics.
April 1, 2004... ADESCENDANT OF BRITAIN'S nineteenth-century intellectual aristocracy, a dandy, a core member of the Bloomsbury Group, and the inadvertent originator, in Richard Altick's words, of "a major new field of historiography," namely, Victorian...

The politics of sexual knowledge: the origins of Ireland's Containment culture and the Carrigan Report (1931).
April 1, 2004... "IN IRELAND--whenever a child is born out of wedlock, so shocked is the public sense by the very unusual occurrence, that it brands with an irreparable stigma, and, to a large extent, excommunicates the woman guilty of the crime." (1) Writing...

Sexual Antipodes: Enlightenment Globalization and the Placing of Sex.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Sexual Antipodes: Enlightenment Globalization and the Placing of Sex. By PAMELA CHEEK. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. xi + 246. $49.50 (cloth). Among scholars who have been documenting the long-term and uneven...

When Children Want Children: The Urban Crisis of Teenage Childbearing.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... When Children Want Children: The Urban Crisis of Teenage Childbearing. By LEON DASH. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp. 270. $18.95 (paper). Setting out to investigate black teenage pregnancy for the Washington Post in 1984,...

Figures of Speech: Men and Maidens in Ancient Greece.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Figures of Speech: Men and Maidens in Ancient Greece. By GLORIA FERRARI. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. 352. $60.00 (cloth). Although it has become more and more common in academic disciplines to read visual...

The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance. By VALERIA FINUCCI. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. 316. $74.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Most of us grew up listening in wondrous...

Art and the Crisis of Marriage: Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Art and the Crisis of Marriage: Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe. By VIVIEN GREEN FRYD. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. 278. $40.00 (cloth). In this fascinating book Vivien Green Fryd explores the often contentious...

The Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work. By ARLIE RUSSELL HOCHSCHILD. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. ix + 313. $49.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper). "The second shift," "the stalled revolution," "the...

Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance. By JANET R. JAKOBSEN and ANN PELLEGRINI. New York: New York University Press, 2003. Pp. 175. $23.00 (cloth); $17.00 (paper). It is seldom that I can incorporate in class...

Lewd and Notorious: Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Lewd and Notorious: Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century. Edited by KATHARINE KITTREDGE. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003. Pp. 288. $59.50 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). The merits of Lewd and Notorious, and they are...

The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China. By TZE-LAN D. SANG. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. 380. $70.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). Tze-lan D. Sang has traced the competing and shifting meanings of...

Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity.(Book Review)
April 1, 2004... Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity. BY EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. 195. $54.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). I was under the influence of Eve Sedgwick whose instruction, as any of ...

Books of critical interest.
April 1, 2004... Althaus-Reid, Marcella. The Queer God. London: Routledge, 2003. Pp. vi + 186. Paper, $30.95. Bancroft, John, ed. Sexual Development in Childhood. Kinsey Institute Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. Pp. 502. Cloth, $59.95....