Journal of the History of Sexuality articles from January 2008

Journal of the History of Sexuality archives from January 2008

Gay German history: future directions?
January 1, 2008... THE STUDY OF GERMANY'S GAY HISTORY has come a long way since its meager beginnings in the 1970s. (1) Drawing vitality from the gay and lesbian liberation movement that sprung to life in West Germany at the beginning of the 1970s, the study of...

Racializing sex: same-sex relations, German colonial authority, and Deutschtum.
January 1, 2008... As NUMEROUS AUTHORS HAVE NOTED, sexuality had a significant impact on the understanding and construction of empire. Indeed, in his groundbreaking study Edward Said states: "The Orient was a place where one could look for sexual experience...

Colonial intimacy: the Rechenberg scandal and homosexuality in German East Africa.(Georg Albrecht Freiherr von Rechenberg)
January 1, 2008... ON THE EVE OF WORLD WAR I the Rechenberg scandal captivated colonial society in Dar es Salaam, the capital of German East Africa. Georg Albrecht Freiherr von Rechenberg (1861-1935), governor of the colony from September 1906 to October 1912,...

Male sexuality and psychological trauma: soldiers and sexual disorder in World War I and Weimar Germany.
January 1, 2008... IN THE HISTORY OF THE INTERSECTIONS between war, gender, and sexuality, historians have debated the degree to which the age of total war represented a step toward "remasculinization," a process by which traditional constructions of masculinity...

The rites of Artgenossen: contesting homosexual political culture in Weimar Germany.
January 1, 2008... Serious activists who fight for an outlawed and suppressed minority must be themselves conscious of what they do. Therefore, it is necessary that in the future everything that can do harm to homosexuals be censured, and foremost...

Queer eyes and Wagnerian guys: homoeroticism in the art of the Third Reich.(Richard Wagner, German Composer)(Nazi Germany)(Critical essay)(Cover story)
January 1, 2008... Physique... constitutes a basic sign. --Roland Barthes, "The World of Wrestling" (1) AT LEAST SINCE SUSAN SONTAG'S ESSAY "Fascinatin' Fascism" we have been aware that people may be interested in the aesthetic objects produced by...

Sisters of Salome.(Book review)
January 1, 2008... Sisters of Salome. By TONI BENTLEY. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. 240. $32.00 (cloth). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Pp. 226. $16.95 (paper). Toni Bentley's book Sisters of Salome raises a number of...

Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters and Postwar American Culture.(Critical essay)
January 1, 2008... Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters and Postwar American Culture. By RACHEL DEVLIN. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. 272. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). In Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent...

Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures.
January 1, 2008... Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures. By GAYATRI GOPINATH. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. 264. $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). In her book Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian...

Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas.
January 1, 2008... Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas. By ELLEN HARRIS. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. 448. $49.95 (cloth); $20.95 (paper). Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas declares...

Thicker than Water: The Origins of Blood as Symbol and Ritual.
January 1, 2008... Thicker than Water: The Origins of Blood as Symbol and Ritual. By MELISSA L. MEYER. New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 272. $95.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). In Thicker than Water Melissa Meyer pursues an ambitious project that aims to...

Crimes against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960.
January 1, 2008... Crimes against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York City, 1880-1960. By STEPHEN ROBERTSON. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005. Pp. 352. $59.95 (cloth); $22.50 (paper). The beginning of this book, the...

Radical Modernism and Sexuality: Freud, Reich, D. H. Lawrence & Beyond.
January 1, 2008... Radical Modernism and Sexuality: Freud, Reich, D. H. Lawrence & Beyond. By DAVID SEELOW. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. 176. $69.95 (cloth). The cultural and literary modernism of the early twentieth century looks different to...

Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Reproduction in Transatlantic Modern Thought.
January 1, 2008... Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Reproduction in Transatlantic Modern Thought. By ALYS EVE WEINBAUM. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. 368. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). This text offers stimulating and challenging...

Books of critical interest.(Bibliography)
January 1, 2008... Bernstein, Frances Lee. The Dictatorship of Sex: Lifestyle Advice for the Soviet Masses. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2007. Pp. 264. $42.00 (cloth). Bourg, Julian. From Revolution to Ethics: May 1968 and Contemporary French...