Journal of the History of Sexuality articles from January 2006

Journal of the History of Sexuality archives from January 2006

Editor's note: Mathew Kuefler.
January 1, 2006... This, the first issue of the fifteenth volume of the Journal of the History of Sexuality, includes a new cover look and a new layout of contents. When the Journal of the History of Sexuality was founded in 1990, the study of the history of...

Monastic masturbation in Pali Buddhist texts.
January 1, 2006... AN INTERESTING SET of disciplinary materials on masturbation appears in the Vinaya (Buddhist monastic law) in Pali, which is pre-Christian and, if interpolations could be removed, would reach back another five centuries, fragments being...

Heterosexuality as a threat to medieval studies.
January 1, 2006... MEDIEVALISTS KNOW that if they claim to have found "homosexuals" in the Middle Ages they will provoke cries of outrage, and nothing else they say will be heard. So they avoid the term. Thus Allen Frantzen, on the very first page of Before the...

"Inspired by flames of love": homosexuality, mysticism, and Moravian brothers around 1750.
January 1, 2006... IN 1751 A DISAPPOINTED ex-Moravian from Berlin, Heinrich Joachim Bothe, attempting to place the Moravians in a bad light, published his experiences with this Protestant group, with whom he had been close for almost ten years. Among many things...

"Model Mamas": the domestic partnership of home economics pioneers Flora Rose and Martha Van Rensselaer.
January 1, 2006... IN 1925, AT AN EVENT honoring Martha Van Rensselaer, cochair of the Department of Home Economics at Cornell University, an alumna of the department commented to the assembled crowd that "she it is, with the partner she came to love and who came...

The joy of work: Helen Gurley Brown, gender, and sexuality in the white-collar office.
January 1, 2006... Everywhere under the seemingly placid surface of business, there is the undercurrent of sex, upsetting, repelling, attracting individuals.... But the day's work must be done.... So, in most businesses, any outward manifestation of...

Re-thinking Sexualities in Africa.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Re-thinking Sexualities in Africa. Edited by SIGNE ARNFRED. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2004. Pp. 215. [euro]22 (paper). In this diverse and provocative volume scholars from a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social...

Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna. By MATTI BUNZL. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. 304. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). In Symptoms of Modernity Matti Bunzl has taken on questions of...

Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. By JOHN D'EMILIO. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. 592. $20.00 (paper). When you step into San Francisco's Castro Theatre you feel as though you are stepping back in time....

Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture. By KAREN HARVEY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 272. $80.00 (cloth). In 1741 Thomas Stretser, writing under the pseudonym Roger...

Eros and Inwardness in Vienna: Weininger, Musil, Doderer.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Eros and Inwardness in Vienna: Weininger, Musil, Doderer. By DAVID LUFT. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. 271. $35.00 (cloth). David Luft argues that the explosion of literary, philosophical, and medical interest in...

Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture. By FRAN MARTIN. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2003. Pp. 372. $39.50 (cloth). Fran Martin's Situating Sexualities is the first...

How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States. By JOANNE MEYEROWITZ. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 380. $29.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). In 1954 Christine Jorgensen--the woman whose famous personal...

Cruising Modernism: Class and Sexuality in American Literature and Social Thought.(Book review)
January 1, 2006... Cruising Modernism: Class and Sexuality in American Literature and Social Thought. By MICHAEL TRASK. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. Michael Trask's Cruising Modernism offers a new way of reading American literary modernism...

Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion.
January 1, 2006... Tantra: Sex, Secrecy, Politics, and Power in the Study of Religion. By HUGH B. URBAN. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. 388. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Of the many books on tantra flooding booksellers, this is the one...

Books of critical interest.(Recommended readings)
January 1, 2006... Abelove, Henry. Deep Gossip. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. Pp. 128. $25.95 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Adams, Vincanne, and Stacy Leigh Pigg, eds. Sex in Development: Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective....