Journal of the History of Sexuality articles from January 2005

Journal of the History of Sexuality archives from January 2005

Introduction: theory, methods, praxis: the history of sexuality and the question of evidence.
January 1, 2005... THE ESSAYS GATHERED IN THIS special issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality engage foundational issues of the origin and status of professional knowledge about the sexual past. Overwhelmingly, the contributors speak to and about the...

Without a trace: sexuality and the colonial archive.
January 1, 2005... There were no papers, the ostensible reason for my visit, and of course, no trace of the Rani. Again, a reaching and an un-grasping. --Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1) THE PAST FEW DECADES OF...

Where in the world are the lesbians?
January 1, 2005... IN 2001 I BECAME, AS FAR AS I CAN TELL, the first person hired at a Catholic university specifically because of my work in LGBTQ studies. I am blessed, as it were, with a departmental colleague who publishes widely in postcolonial queer...

The archival traces of desire: Vernon Lee's failed sexuality and the interpretation of letters in lesbian history.
January 1, 2005... MY INTEREST IN VERNON LEE (1856-1935) grew out of a project on the use of code by women who did not want to use sexological or psychological terms to describe their love for other women. (1) After reading Phyllis Mannocchi's article about the...

Feminine masculinities: scientific and literary representations of "female inversion" at the turn of the twentieth century.
January 1, 2005... THROUGHOUT MODERN EUROPEAN HISTORY articulations of gender and sexuality have been closely intertwined. At the turn of the twentieth century the interconnection between both categories played a crucial role in redefining cultural identities at...

On mother-love: history, queer theory, and nonlesbian identity.
January 1, 2005... Ironically, the assumption that modern homosexual identity came into being in the late nineteenth century, while so fruitful for historical research on the development of gay and lesbian communities and political action, has tended...

Twilight moments.(lesbianism)
January 1, 2005... IN 1863 THE CODRINGTON DIVORCE TRIAL exposed to the light of day what had long been concealed in darkness. Although married to an admiral, for years Helen Codrington had spent her nights in bed with the mannish feminist Emily Faithfull without...

What's law got to do with it? Legal records and sexual histories.
January 1, 2005... SCHOLARS RESEARCHING SOCIAL AND CULTURAL history have long been captivated by the possibilities of court records. Legal records seem to describe behavior not easily uncovered in other sources. As Edward Muir and Guido Ruggiero suggest, court...

Remembering Foucault.(Michel Foucault)
January 1, 2005... FORGETTING FOUCAULT? IS IT TIME TO FORGET Michel Foucault? Over the past quarter of a century there have been a number of injunctions for us to do so. The first, which became notorious, was a sharp polemical intervention from Baudrillard...

The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography. By VIRGINIA BURRUS. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. 216. $42.50 (cloth). This energetically written and erudite book is a welcome addition to the series...

Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty, and License in the Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Libertine Enlightenment: Sex, Liberty, and License in the Eighteenth Century. Edited by PETER CRYLE and LISA O'CONNELL. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. xii + 256. $65.00 (cloth). This must have been a marvelous conference at the...

Gay Male Pornography: An Issue of Sex Discrimination.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Gay Male Pornography: An Issue of Sex Discrimination. By CHRISTOPHER N. KENDALL. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. Pp. 270. $85.00 (cloth). The characterization of pornography as sex discrimination has come to the fore...

Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London. By SETH KOVEN. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. 399. $29.95 (cloth). Seth Koven has written a very "queer" book. It is an engaging study of philanthropy in...

The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... The Great Southern Babylon: Sex, Race, and Respectability in New Orleans, 1865-1920. By ALECIA P. LONG. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. xv + 282. $39.95 (cloth). When the Southern Historical Association holds its...

Henry Sidgwick, Eye of the Universe: An Intellectual Biography.(Book Review)
January 1, 2005... Henry Sidgwick, Eye of the Universe: An Intellectual Biography. By BART SCHULTZ. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 878. $60.00 (cloth). The Victorians made Oxford the stuff of legend. Hughes sent Tom Brown there. Arnold...

Books of critical interest.
January 1, 2005... Anderlini-D'Onoirio, Serena, ed. Plural Lives: Designs for Bi and Poly Living. Binghamton, N.Y.: Harrington Park Press, 2005. Pp. xv + 244. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $29.95. Published simultaneously as Journal of Bisexuality 4, nos. 3-4 (2004). ...