Journal of the History of Sexuality articles from July 2005

Journal of the History of Sexuality archives from July 2005

Editor's note: Mathew Kuefler.
July 1, 2005... This issue represents my first contribution as editor to the continuing legacy of the Journal of the History of Sexuality. I am extremely proud to be involved in such a worthwhile endeavor and hope that I can maintain the standard of excellence...

Savages in the Scottish Enlightenment's history of desire.
July 1, 2005... IF SEX IS ASSUMED BY MOST PEOPLE TODAY to be a relatively stable feature of human biology, and if, partly as a counter to this, one preoccupation of the field of sexual studies in the academy is the tracing of the complex histories of the...

Nationalizing sexuality: sexual stereotypes in the Habsburg Empire.
July 1, 2005... Love takes a unique form among every nation in the world, which depends on its temperament and character. Among some nations, love is a fleeting coquetry, by others a serious and honorable thing. --"Character der Liebe in Paris," Allgemeine...

Heterogeneous imperialism and the regulation of sexuality in British West Africa.
July 1, 2005... UNPACKING AND APPLYING TO THE IMPERIAL FIELD Michel Foucault's analysis of sexuality as "an especially dense transfer point for relations of power," historians of sexuality and postcolunial critics have identified close, mutually constitutive...

Sexuality and gender in Hirschfeld's Die Transvestiten: a case of the "elusive evidence of the ordinary".
July 1, 2005... MAGNUS HIRSCHFELD WAS, WITHOUT QUESTION, a key player in the development of taxonomies of sexual identities. Most significantly, he is credited with naming two categories that continue to this day: transvestite and transsexual. (1) His work on...

The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture.(Book review)
July 1, 2005... The Violet Hour: The Violet Quill and the Making of Gay Culture. By DAVID BERGMAN. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. Pp. 288. $62.50 (cloth); Pp. 368. $24.50 (paper). The members of the literary circle known as the Violet...

Modernising Sexualities: Towards a Socio-Historical Understanding of Sexualities in the Swiss Nation.(Book review)
July 1, 2005... Modernising Sexualities: Towards a Socio-Historical Understanding of Sexualities in the Swiss Nation. By NATALIA GERODETTI. Bern: Peter Lang, 2005. Pp. 286. $35.95 (paper). Modernising Sexualities analyzes the history of the criminalization...

The Empty Cradle of Democracy: Sex, Abortion, and Nationalism in Modern Greece.(Book review)
July 1, 2005... The Empty Cradle of Democracy: Sex, Abortion, and Nationalism in Modern Greece. By ALEXANDRA HALKIAS. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. 413. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). This study is difficult to summarize fair-mindedly...

The Perfect Servant: Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in Byzantium.(Book review)
July 1, 2005... The Perfect Servant: Eunuchs and the Social Construction of Gender in Byzantium. By KATHERINE M. RINGROSE. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. 312. $40.00 (cloth). For millennia eunuchs played prominent roles in important...

The Yard of Wit: Male Creativity and Sexuality, 1650-1750.(Book review)
July 1, 2005... The Yard of Wit: Male Creativity and Sexuality, 1650-1750. By RAYMOND STEPHANSON. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. 312. $55.00 (cloth). In coupling male creativity and sexuality in the title of this work, Raymond...

Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928.(Book review)
July 1, 2005... Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928. By MARTHA VICINUS. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. 344. $35.00 (cloth). Throughout several decades of work on gender, women's history, and female same-sex love, Martha...