Journal of the History of Sexuality articles from July 2003

Journal of the History of Sexuality archives from July 2003

Editors' note: Barbara Loomis and William N. Bonds.
July 1, 2003... CALL FOR PAPERS Lesley A. Hall (Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine) and Julian Carter (Draper Program, New York University) are the guest editors for a special issue of the Journal of the History of Sexuality on...

Friction of the genitals and secularization of morality.
July 1, 2003... IN THE VOLUMINOUS and ever-growing scholarship on the history of sexuality, a fair portion deals in one way or another, explicitly or implicitly, with the complex issue of the secularization of morality. Whether one is interested in the...

Body doubles: the spermatorrhea panic.
July 1, 2003... A PROMISING YOUNG MEDICAL STUDENT becomes reclusive, tearful, and despondent, neglecting his studies and spending his days in bed. (1) A banker becomes paranoid and aggressive, attacking a fellow businessman on the street for no reason and...

Homosexual signs and heterosexual silences: Rorschach research on male homosexuality from 1921 to 1969.
July 1, 2003... IN FEBRUARY 2001 the validity of the Rorschach inkblot test became a matter of public concern--once again. During a phone-in debate on National Public Radio a research psychologist who had recently coauthored a lengthy critical review of...

The sexual abuse paradigm in historical perspective: passivity and emotion in mid-twentieth-century America.
July 1, 2003... WHAT MORE CAN HISTORIANS say about the sexual abuse recovery movement of the 1980s and 1990s? Its rise and fall are now well known. In the early 1980s Americans were shocked to learn that incest and child sexual abuse, formerly believed rare,...

Kinsey's biographers: a historiographical reconnaissance.
July 1, 2003... Authority must derive from reason, not from position. --Herman B Wells, 1938 (1) FOR ALFRED C. KINSEY, the end came in August 1956. Earlier that year one of his closest associates, Clarence Tripp, made the comment: "Of course now...

Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics. By DOUGLAS CRIMP. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. Pp. x + 320. $29.95 (cloth). In publishing a volume of collected essays, a writer has the opportunity to look back, reassess,...

Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China. By JUDITH FARQUHAR. Durham, NC: Duck University Press, 2002. Pp. xii + 341. $54.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). During the height of Maoist collectivism, puritan ethics ruled the day. Lei Feng,...

Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Opening Up: Youth Sex Culture and Market Reform in Shanghai. By JAMES FARRER. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xii + 387. $50.00 (cloth); $19.00 (paper). Opening Up is a marvelous book. Readers who are familiar with changes...

G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire. By KATHERINE FRANK. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. 331. $59.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). There's a recent cartoon in a certain "men's magazine" in which an elegant...

Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Queer Episodes in Music and Modern Identity. Edited by SOPHIE FULLER and LLOYD WHITESELL. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. viii + 324. $39.95 (cloth). This is an aptly titled collection of twelve essays that possesses the...

Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... Sexual Blackmail: A Modern History. By ANGUS MCLAREN. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. x + 332. $35.00 (cloth). In 1937 the blackmail trials of a New York City abortion ring involving over two hundred physicians and...

The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England. By VALERIE TRAUB. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xiv + 492. $80.00 (cloth). Valerie Traub's book analyzes with scrupulous attention to detail the genealogy of female...

The Making of a Gay Asian Community: An Oral History of Pre-AIDS Los Angeles.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
July 1, 2003... The Making of a Gay Asian Community: An Oral History of Pre-AIDS Los Angeles. By ERIC C. WAT. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. Pp. 224. $70.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). On March 23, 2002, a group of Asian Americans gathered at the...

Books of critical interest.(directory of works on sexuality)(Directory)
July 1, 2003... Berry, Chris, Fran Martin, and Audrey Yue, eds. Mobile Cultures: New Media in Queer Asia. Console-ing Passions: Television and Cultural Power series, ed. Lynn Spigel. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003. Pp. vi + 306. Paper, $21.95. ...