Journal of the History of Sexuality articles from January 2004

Journal of the History of Sexuality archives from January 2004

Editors' note: Barbara Loomis and William N. Bonds.
January 1, 2004... NEW ELECTRONIC JOURNALS The National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC), housed at San Francisco State University and supported by the Ford Foundation, has begun publication of two new online journals: American Sexuality Magazine and...

The sodomitic lions of Granada.
January 1, 2004... EVEN BEFORE THE APPEARANCE in 1980 of John Boswell's Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, scholars had shown some interest in the presence of "homoeroticism" in medieval Spain. (1) Their attention centered on erotic themes found...

In the name of the law: the "female homosexual" and the criminal code in fin de siecle Germany.
January 1, 2004... IN A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY OF what he called the juridical "field," sociologist Pierre Bourdieu portrayed law as the quintessential form of the symbolic power of naming that creates the things it names, individuals and social groups in particular....

Regulating Chinese women's sexuality during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria: reading between the lines of Wu Ying's "Yu" (Lust) and Yang Xu's Wo de riji (My diary).
January 1, 2004... FOR BOTH GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS and Chinese writers in the Japanese colony of Manchukuo (Manzhouguo, 1932-45), women's sexuality was a defining element of cultural identity. No other aspect of women's lives garnered more attention from the state....

Public pedagogy: sex education and mass communication in the mid-twentieth century.
January 1, 2004... QUESTIONING THE RELATIONSHIP between medium and message has long exercised media and communications theorists, but historians have devoted comparatively little attention to the issue. (1) The historiography of sexology confirms this: rather...

The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture. By ELIZABETH FREEMAN. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. xix + 288. $19.95 (paper). There's a crass old joke--still popular in low-end greeting cards--that...

Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America. Edited by MATTHEW C. GUTMANN. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. xi + 416. $74.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Changing Men and Masculinities in Latin America is an innovative work...

Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Trying Neaira: The True Story of a Courtesan's Scandalous Life in Ancient Greece. By DEBRA HAMEL. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xxiii + 200. $24.95 (cloth). The modern reader may sometimes wonder whether the elderly...

Talk about Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Talk about Sex: The Battles over Sex Education in the United States. By JANICE M. IRVINE. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. 271. $24.95 (cloth). In Talk about Sex, sociologist Janice Irvine poses a central question: "How...

Making Girls into Women: American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Making Girls into Women: American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity. By KATHRYN R. KENT. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. 355. $64.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). With Making Girls into Women, Kathryn Kent enters a...

The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Seduction of the Occult and the Rise of the Fantastic Tale. By DOROTHEA E. VON MUCKE. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003. Pp. 304. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Dorothea E. von Mucke's The Seduction of the Occult and...

Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland, 1400-1600.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Sodomy in Reformation Germany and Switzerland, 1400-1600. By HELMUT PUFF. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. ix + 311. $60.00 (cloth); $24.00 (paper). Helmut Puff seeks to liberate the study of late medieval and early modern...

The Erotic History of Advertising.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... The Erotic History of Advertising. By TOM REICHERT. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2003. Pp. 394. $24.00 (paper). From the first two sentences of The Erotic History of Advertising, readers should know they are in trouble. Author Tom...

At the Dawn of the Sexual Revolution: Reflections on a Dialogue.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... At the Dawn of the Sexual Revolution: Reflections on a Dialogue. By IRA L. REISS and ALBERT ELLIS. Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 2002. Pp. xii + 212. $29.95 (paper). There is something deliciously satisfying about reading other...

Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret. By LEILA J. RUPP and VERTA TAYLOR. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. 272. $27.50 (cloth). Many a reader of an academic book will rush to the acknowledgments to find out who was thanked and who...

Revealing Male Bodies.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Revealing Male Bodies. Edited by NANCY TUANA et al. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. 352. $49.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). On my way home from the screening of a new documentary about the gay male community's obsession with...

Images of Rape: The Heroic Tradition and Its Alternatives.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Images of Rape: The Heroic Tradition and Its Alternatives. By DIANE WOLFTHAL. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 304. $95.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper). From the vibrant brushstrokes of Titian's Rape of Europa to the classical...

Books of critical interest.
January 1, 2004... Abelove, Henry. Deep Gossip. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. Pp. xviii + 104. Cloth, $25.95. Besen, Wayne R. Anything but Straight: Unmasking the Scandals and Lies behind the Ex-Gay Myth. New York: Harrington Park Press,...