Journal of the History of Sexuality articles from January 2007

Journal of the History of Sexuality archives from January 2007

Editor's note: Mathew Kuefler.
January 1, 2007... If you would like to review books or article submissions for the Journal of the History of Sexuality, please send me an email (to jhistsex@mail.sdsu.edu) or write to Prof. Mathew Kuefler Editor, Journal of the History of...

A neglected document on socialism and sex.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENT, "Socialism and Sex," was long forgotten until this rediscovery. (1) In it, H. L. Small--most likely a pseudonym--provides an elegant, if concise, exposition on behalf of destigmatizing consensual sexuality between...

Female mutability and male anxiety in an early Buddhist legend.(Critical essay)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... IN 399 CE A CHINESE MONK named Fa-hsien (ca. 337-ca. 422) began a fourteen-year pilgrimage to South Asia in order to visit Buddhist pilgrimage sites and to gather Buddhist texts to bring back to China. In his account of that remarkable journey...

Milkmaids, ploughmen, and sex in eighteenth-century Britain.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... "John and Nell." As Nell sat underneath her cow, Upon a cock of hay, Brisk John was coming from the plough, And chanc'd to pass that way: Like lightning to the maid he flew, And by the hand he squeez'd her; Pray...

Sapphism and sedition: producing female homosexuality in Great War Britain.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... IN EARLY 1918, as British military forces were in retreat and the country expected humiliating military defeat at the hands of Germany, two events simultaneously raised rhetorical concern over female sexual representation in Britain. In one...

A part and apart: lesbian and straight feminist activists negotiate identity in a second-wave organization.
January 1, 2007... "CIVIL MARRIAGE IS A CIVIL RIGHT!" proclaimed a flyer advertising a Valentine's Day action in Toledo, Ohio, in February 2005. Penned by the Toledo chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW), the flyer announced that the event would...

The Courage to Connect: Sexuality, Citizenship, and Community in Provincetown.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... The Courage to Connect: Sexuality, Citizenship, and Community in Provincetown. By SANDRA L. FAIMAN-SILVA. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Pp. 280. $35.00 (cloth). Faiman-Silva has written a provocative and complex study of...

Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique. By RODERICK A. FERGUSON. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. Pp. 175. $53.24 (cloth); $19.50 (paper). We all know well the time-honored, cliched riddle about what...

Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... Alien Sex: The Body and Desire in Cinema and Theology. By GERARD LOUGHLIN. Challenges in Contemporary Theology, ed. Gareth Jones and Lewis Ayres. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004. Pp. 336. $79.95 (cloth); $36.95 (paper). Alien Sex takes a long look...

Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture, 1748-1818.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture, 1748-1818. By RUTH PERRY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 476. $85.00 (cloth); $35.99 (paper). This is a genuinely interdisciplinary work,...

Songs of Love, Poems of Sadness: The Erotic Verse of the Sixth Dalai Lama.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2007... Songs of Love, Poems of Sadness: The Erotic Verse of the Sixth Dalai Lama. By PAUL WILLIAMS. London: I. B. Tauris, 2004. Pp. 200. [pounds sterling]17.99 (cloth). The contradictions in the life of the Sixth Dalai Lama, Tsangyang Gyatso,...

Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing unto Others.(books on love and sexuality)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Review Essay. Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing unto Others. By RUTH MAZO KARRAS. New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 208. $95.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper). Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages: A Sourcebook. By CONOR MCCARTHY. London:...

Books of critical interest.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2007... Adlard, John, ed. Restoration Bawdy: Poems, Songs and Jests on the Subject of Sensual Love. Manchester, U.K.: Carcanet, 2003. Pp. 144. [pounds sterling]6.95 (paper). Barton, Bernadette C. Stripped: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers. New...