Journal of the History of Sexuality articles from January 2002

Journal of the History of Sexuality archives from January 2002

Professional conferences.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... The 6th Congress of the European Federation of Sexology will meet at the Hawaii Grand Hotel in Limassol, Cyprus, from June 16 through June 20, 2002. Information about the meeting is available at the following website: . The next meeting of...

Notice of erratum.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2002... Several words were accidentally deleted from the first sentence of the second paragraph of Richard C. Trexler's review of Pete Sigal's book From Moon Goddesses to Virgins (JHS 10, nos. 3-4 [2001]: 584-86). The sentence should have read as...

Hubris and hypocrisy, incitement and disavowal: sexuality and German fascism.
January 1, 2002... It is not acceptable to disguise dirty desires with National Socialist ideas.... There arc no two sides to the Jewish question and it is not admissible to damn the Jew in his political, economic and human manifestation while secretly, for...

Sexuality and Nazism: the doubly unspeakable?
January 1, 2002... THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY in Nazi Germany unites two subjects vulnerable to sensationalist coverage: sex and Nazism. Film scholars have observed a tendency to eroticize National Socialism in that medium a phenomenon that reflects (and perhaps...

Backlash against prostitutes' rights: origins and dynamics of Nazi prostitution policies.
January 1, 2002... IN MEIN KAMPF, Adolf Hitler attacked prostitution as a major cause of Germany's decline. The "prostitution of love," he claimed, was responsible for the "terrible poisoning of the health of the national body" through syphilis. "Even if its...

Homophobic propaganda and the denunciation of same-sex-desiring men under National Socialism.
January 1, 2002... Because after all it had been made explicitly clear to us that we must do away with such things. Testimony of Else K. to the criminal police, July 10, 1934 IN 1935, UNDER THE GUISE of wide-ranging legal reforms, the National Socialist...

Telling sexual stories in the Nazi courts of law: race defilement in Germany, 1933 to 1945.
January 1, 2002... Szobar, Patricia IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY imagination, miscegenation with "non-European" races, particularly Jews and blacks, who were deemed figures of pathological and deviant sexuality, was posited as a key source of the physical...

Fascism and the female form: performance art in the Third Reich.
January 1, 2002... NAZI GERMANY IS generally understood to have been a sexually repressive society, and in fundamental social and political ways, it was repressive. The National Socialist Party intervened in the private space of the body to an extent never before...

Forbidden company: romantic relationships between Germans and foreigners, 1939 to 1945.
January 1, 2002... BY AUGUST 1944, over 7 million foreigners were living in the "Greater German Reich." The majority, which included 1.9 million prisoners of war and 5.7 million forced laborers, had been brought to Germany against their will. Among these...

Sex with a purpose: prostitution, venereal disease, and militarized masculinity in the Third Reich.
January 1, 2002... SEX IN THE THIRD REICH was for too long a virtual terra incognita for historians of Germany. There was an understandable desire to avoid providing titillating details about so murderous a regime. Still, the paucity of research on the subject...

The denial of homosexuality: same-sex incidents in Himmler's SS and police.(Heinrich Himmler)
January 1, 2002... IN PUBLIC, Heinrich Himmler minimized the existence of same-sex sexuality within the elite Schutzstaffel (SS). "In the whole of the SS there occur about eight to ten cases per year," Himmler announced to his senior SS generals in February 1937,...

Victims, villains, and survivors: gendered perceptions and self-perceptions of Jewish displaced persons in occupied postwar Germany.
January 1, 2002... As WE WRITE the history of the post-1945 years, we are only now rediscovering what was amply obvious to contemporaries: that in the immediate postwar period occupied Germany was the unlikely, unloved, and reluctant host to hundreds of thousands...

The pink triangle and political consciousness: gays, lesbians, and the memory of Nazi persecution.
January 1, 2002... WHEN, IN THE WINTER OF 1993, the gay magazine 10 percent criticized the use of the pink triangle as an emblem of gay identity, it touched a nerve. (1) "As a symbol of shared victimization, it is indefensible," wrote Sara Hart, a senior editor...

Books of critical interest.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2002... Angelides, Steven. A History of Bisexuality. Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society. Ed. John C. Fout. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. ix + 281. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $20.00. Bejel, Emilio. Gay Cuban Nation....