Journal of the History of Sexuality articles from July 2002

Journal of the History of Sexuality archives from July 2002

The Garment and the man: masculine desire in Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies, 1764-1793.
July 1, 2002... The Garment and the Man: Masculine Desire in Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies, 1764-1793 ELIZABETH CAMPBELL DENLINGER Truly My Satan thou art but a Dunce And dost not know the Garment from the Man Every Harlot was a Virgin...

Bitches, Mollies, and Tommies: Byron, Masculinity, and the history of sexualities.
July 1, 2002... DURING MUCH OF HIS ADULT LIFE, George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824), a poet whose actions and writings exerted significant influence on British and European culture throughout the nineteenth century, grappled with issues of class and gender....

Officers, gentlemen, "Man-Talk," and group sex in the "Old Navy," 1870-1873.
July 1, 2002... MODERN SCHOLARS WHO have written on the history of the United States Navy in the late nineteenth century have almost without exception viewed the service narrowly, examining its missions, strategies, technology, political impact, and similar...

"Sporty" girls and "artistic" boys: friendship, illicit sex, and the British "companionship" advertisement, 1913-1928.
July 1, 2002... ON SEPTEMBER 1, 1920, Sir Basil Thomson, commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, received a note warning him of a grave threat to the morals of the British nation. The letter was from R. A. Bennett, editor of the weekly newspaper Truth and a...

Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II and Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day. (Book Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II. Edited by ROBERT ALDRICH and GARRY WOTHERSPOON. London: Routledge, 2001. Pp. xix + 502. $29.95 (cloth). Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War...

Global Sex. (Book Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Global Sex. By DENNIS ALTMAN. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xii + 216. $24.00 (cloth). This provocative and wide-ranging new book by Dennis Altman explores sexual politics in the era of creeping globalization. By turns...

Sexual Identities, Queer Politics. (Book Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Sexual Identities, Queer Politics. Edited by MARK BLASIUS. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. ix + 382. $60.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Political scientists have come to the study of LGBT topics somewhat later than...

Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages. (Book Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages. Edited by CINDY L. CARLSON and ANGELA JANE WEISL. The New Middle Ages, edited by BONNIE WHEELER. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. ix + 270. $49.95 (cloth). Widows and...

Vir: Perceptions of Manliness in Andalucia and Mexico, 1561-1699. (Book Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Vir: Perceptions of Manliness in Andalucia and Mexico, 1561--1699. By FEDERICO GARZA CARVAJAL. Amsterdam: Stichting Amsterdamse Historische Reeks, 2000. Pp. xii + 306. Vir: Perceptions of Manliness in Andalucia and Mexico, 1561--1699 is a...

Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation. (Book Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation. By NANCY COTT. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. 304. $29.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper). Nancy Cott's subtitle, A History of Marriage and the Nation, should be taken...

Dangerous Liaisons: A Social History of Venereal Disease in Twentieth-Century Scotland. (Book Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Dangerous Liaisons: A Social History of Venereal Disease in Twentieth-Century Scotland. By ROGER DAVIDSON. The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine. Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2000. Pp. 383. $85.00 (cloth); $28.00 (paper). ...

Politics, Prudery and Perversions: The Censoring of the English Stage, 1901-1968, Governing Morals: A Social History of Moral Regulation and Bound and Gagged: A Secret History of Obscenity in Britain. (Book Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Politics, Prudery and Perversions: The Censoring of the English Stage, 1901- 1968. By NICHOLAS DE JONGH. London: Methuen, 2000. Pp. xvi + 272. [pounds sterling]16.99; $21.95. Governing Morals: A Social History of Moral Regulation. By ALAN...

Willa Cather and Others. (Book Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Willa Cather and Others. By JONATHAN GOLDBERG. Series Q. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. Pp. 240. $54.95. Best known as a scholar of gender and sexuality in early modern British literature, Jonathan Goldberg, author of Queering the...

Queer Nations: Marginal Sexualities in the Maghreb. (Book Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Queer Nations: Marginal Sexualities in the Maghreb. By JARROD HAYES. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xiii + 307. $50.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper). This book is not a study of sexuality per se but rather a work of literary...

Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai: A Social History, 1849-1949. (Book Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai: A Social History, 1849-1949. By CHRISTIAN HENRIOT. Trans. NOEL CASTELINO. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xviii + 467. $85.00. The history of prostitution in Shanghai has been...

Before Pornography: Erotic Writing in Early Modern England. (Book Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Before Pornography: Erotic Writing in Early Modern England. By IAN FREDERICK MOULTON. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 268. $49.95 (cloth). This book is a new addition to an important series, Studies in the History of Sexuality....

Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as Poet. (Book Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as Poet. By DEBORAH PARKE R. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. x + 233; 29 black-and-white illustrations. $60.00 (cloth). The Florentine artist Agnolo di Cosimo, or Bronzino (1503-72), was also...

Passing: Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion. (Book Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Passing: Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion. Edited by MARIA CARLA SANCHEZ and LINDA SCHLOSSBERG. NEW YORk: New York University Press, 2001. Pp. 274. $55.00 (cloth). As we search, singly and collectively, for clues...

Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse. (Book Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Chaucer's Pardoner and Gender Theory: Bodies of Discourse. By ROBERT S. STURGES. The New Middle Ages Series, edited by Bonnie Wheeler. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. Pp. xxiii + 232. $49.95. Much of the most exciting recent work on...

Imagine Hope: AIDS and Gay Identity. (Book Reviews).
July 1, 2002... Imagine Hope: AIDS and Gay Identity. By SIMON WATNEY. London: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xii + 282. $85.00 (cloth); $25.99 (paper). Most American gay men know more about the comings and goings of the British royal family than about the lives of...

Books of critical interest.
July 1, 2002... Barringer, Judith. The Hunt in Ancient Greece. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii + 296. Cloth, $48.00. Birkhead, Tim. Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University...