Journal of the History of Sexuality articles from January 2003

Journal of the History of Sexuality archives from January 2003

Editors' note: Barbara Loomis and William N. Bonds.(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... THE CURRENT ISSUE This issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality contains a set of articles on a common topic--the World League for Sexual Reform (WLSR). Although the life of the WLSR was short (it was established after the First...

The World League for Sexual Reform: some possible approaches.
January 1, 2003... AN ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW THE WORLD LEAGUE FOR SEXUAL REFORM (WLSR)was the final organization founded by Magnus Hirschfeld following the Scientific Humanitarian Committee (Wissenschaftlich-humanitares Komitee) in 1897 and the Institute...

"All the World's a Stage": Dora Russell, Norman Haire, and the 1929 London World League for Sexual Reform Congress.
January 1, 2003... WHEN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE penned the lines in Twelfth Night, "If this were play'd upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction" (3.4.127-28), he very aptly described the drama, intrigue, and machinations that would characterize...

From neo-Malthusianism to sexual reform: the Dutch section of the World League for Sexual Reform.
January 1, 2003... WRITING ABOUT THE UPCOMING international congress of the World League for Sexual Reform (WLSR), to be held in Vienna from September 16-23, 1930, Dutch writer, educator, and freethinker H. G. Cannegieter wondered why the WLSR was virtually...

Sexual reform, psychoanalysis, and the politics of divorce in Spain in the 1920s and 1930s.
January 1, 2003... THE SEXUAL REFORM MOVEMENT in Spain before the Spanish civil war was the product of a loose coalition of physicians and lawyers influenced by Freudian psychology. These individuals shared concerns about gender inequality and sexual dysfunction,...

The World League for Sexual Reform in Spain: founding, infighting, and the role of Hildegart Rodriguez.
January 1, 2003... HILDEGART RODRIGUEZ, the founding secretary of the Spanish chapter of the World League for Sexual Reform (WLSR), is little known today, even by Spaniards and Hispanists. Yet in her time this young woman was a prodigy--a prolific writer, a...

"Science and sympathy" or "sexual subversion on a human basis"? Anarchists in Spain and the World League for Sexual Reform.
January 1, 2003... The problem of dealing with Prostitution and Venereal Disease should be approached with science and sympathy and not with moral disapproval. --Resolution of the Third Congress of the WLSR, 1929 (1) Prostitution is above all the...

Institut fur Sexualwissenschaft (1919-1933)--The Institute for Sexual Science--Instituto de Sexologia.(multiilingual Web site dedicated to Magnus Hirschfeld, German gay rights activist (1868-1935))
January 1, 2003... Ausstellung--Exhibition--Exposicion Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft, Berlin, 2002 The advent of the Internet has opened up new possibilities for publishing and distributing the printed word as well as pictorial material. The combination of...

Perfect Wives, Other Women: Adultery and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By GEORGINA DOPICO BLACK. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. xx + 307. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Georgina Dopico Black's Perfect Wives, Other Women: Adultery and Inquisition in Early Modern Spain makes the provocative...

Strength in Numbers: Population, Reproduction, and Power in Eighteenth-Century France.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By CAROL BLUM. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. 261. $46.00 (cloth). Carol Blum's Strength in Numbers traces the obsession with population decline in eighteenth-century France. As Blum demonstrates with a wealth of...

The Emergence of Sexuality: Historical Epistemology and the Formation of Concepts.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By ARNOLD I. DAVIDSON. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. 272. $39.95 (cloth). Is it possible any longer to consider writing a history of modern sexuality that does hot, in some sense, wrestle with the ideas of Michel...

A Queer Mother for the Nation: the State and Gabriela Mistral.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By LICIA FIOL-MATTA. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. Pp. xxix + 269. $54.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). This study is an engaging and thought-provoking analysis of the myth and person of Gabriela Mistral, the Chilean poet who...

Desiring Revolution: Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By JANE GERHARD. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. Pp. ix + 232. $45.00 (cloth); $17.50 (paper). Second-wave feminism has gotten a bad rap recently. In the 1990s, with the advent of poststructuralist feminism and queer theory in...

Borders of Being: Citizenship, Fertility, and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Edited by MARGARET JOLLY and KALPANA RAM. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. Pp. xii + 326. $24.95 (paper). The editors of this well-researched volume ingeniously call out attention to certain specific sex/gender connections...

Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By WENDY KLINE. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xv + 218. $35.00 (cloth). Wendy Kline has written a provocative and original book on eugenics in the United States that takes gender and sexuality as central and...

Among Women: from the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Edited by NANCY SORKIN RABINOWITZ and LISA AUANGER. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. Pp. 424. $50.00 (cloth). Among Women is a welcome addition to the burst of scholarship now examining gender and sexuality in the ancient world....

Erosand Greek Athletics.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By THOMAS F. SCANLON. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. 466. $74.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper). Thomas Scanlon's book consists of an introduction, ten chapters, endnotes, bibliography, and index. Most of the text was published...

The Beggar's Benison: Sex Clubs of Enlightenment Scotland and Their Rituals.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By DAVID STEVESON. East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 2001. Pp. xviii + 265. 18.99 [pounds sterling] (cloth). In discreet meetings, the leading figures of Scotland's East Neuk met to engage in public masturbation and to extol the pleasures of...

The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By MASON STOKES. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. viii + 252. $54.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Mason Stokes's The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy is a smart and provocative book,...

Caravaggio's Secrets.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... By LEO BERSANI and ULYSSE DUTOIT. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (An October Book), 1998. Pp. xii + 118 (illustrated). $18.95 (paper). Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit have given their book a coyly suggestive name, and several of their chapter...

Books of critical interest.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Armstrong, Elizabeth A. Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xix + 272. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $22.50. Boule, Jean-Pierre. HIV Stories: The Archaeology of...