Journal of the History of Sexuality articles from July 2004

Journal of the History of Sexuality archives from July 2004

Editors' note: Barbara Loomis and William N. Bonds.
July 1, 2004... KUDOS Ann R. Gabbert's article, "Prostitution and Moral Reform in the Borderlands: El Paso, 1890-1920," published in the Journal of the History of Sexuality 12, no. 4 (October 2003): 575-604, was the winner of the Joan Jensen-Darlis Miller...

Philosophy in the English boudoir: Havelock Ellis, Love and Pain, and sexological discourses on algophilia.
July 1, 2004... IT IS WELL KNOWN among historians of nineteenth- and twentieth-century sexuality that Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) made a number of important advances in sex psychology, among them writing the first English medical textbook on homosexuality and...

Mephistopheles and monkeys: rejuvenation, race, and sexuality in popular culture in interwar France.
July 1, 2004... Give back the passions unabated, That deepest joy, alive with pain, Love's power and the strength of hatred, Give back my youth to me again. --Goethe, Faust I've had enough, I swear it, of youth and of disheartening...

Building a more stately closet: French gay movements since the early 1980s.
July 1, 2004... Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, ...

The sexual unification of Germany.
July 1, 2004... Sexuality is as much about words, images, ritual, and fantasy as it is about the body: the way we think about sex fashions the way we live it. --Jeffrey Weeks, Sexuality and Its Discontents: Meanings, Myths and Modern...

Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle. By LOIS BANNER. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Pp. viii + 227. $30.00 (cloth). Much about Intertwined Lives is remarkable. First is Lois Banner's brilliant decision not...

Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest. By PETER BOAG. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xvi + 321. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Peter Boag's book, Same-Sex Affairs:...

Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965. By NAN ALAMILLA BOYD. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xii + 321. $27.50 (cloth). In the last quarter century there has been a move away from histories of...

Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Scandal: The Sexual Politics of the British Constitution. By ANNA CLARK. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi + 311. $35.00 (cloth). Constitutional history and the history of sexuality make strange bed-fellows. The...

A Virgin Conceived: Mary and Classical Representations of Virginity.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... A Virgin Conceived: Mary and Classical Representations of Virginity. By MARY F. FOSKETT. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002. Pp. viii + 238. $35.00 (cloth). In this book Mary Foskett reviews the multiple meanings and functions of...

Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire. By PHILIPPA LEVINE. New York: Routledge, 2003. Pp. ix + 480. $95.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). Research on the history of venereal disease (VD) has flourished...

From Camp to Queer: Remaking the Australian Homosexual.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... From Camp to Queer: Remaking the Australian Homosexual. By ROBERT REYNOLDS. Carlton South, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 2002. Pp. viii + 199. $19.95 (paper). The first formal homosexual emancipation organization in Australia, the...

Women, Writing, and Fetishism, 1890-1950: Female Cross-Gendering.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Women, Writing, and Fetishism, 1890-1950: Female Cross-Gendering. By CLARE L. TAYLOR. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. vii + 254. $80.00 (cloth). In his 1927 essay "Fetishism" Freud posited the disavowal of the mother's...

Schooling Sex: Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France, and England, 1534-1685.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Schooling Sex: Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France, and England, 1534-1685. By JAMES GRANTHAM TURNER. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xviii + 408. $80.00 (cloth). In this well-researched and ambitious book...

Sexual Encounters: Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities.(Book Review)
July 1, 2004... Sexual Encounters: Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities. By LEE WALLACE. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xi + 175. $45.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). This book asks its readers to rethink the history of sexuality in the modern...

Books of critical interest.
July 1, 2004... Abramson, Paul R., and Steven D. Pinkerton. With Pleasure: Thoughts on the Nature of Human Sexuality. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. X + 313. Paper, $19.95. Agigian, Amy. Baby Steps: How Lesbian Alternative...