Journal of the History of Sexuality articles from May 2006

Journal of the History of Sexuality archives from May 2006

Editor's note: Mathew Kuefler.
May 1, 2006... Historians of sexuality represent a real community of scholars, in my opinion, brought together as pioneers by the not far distant origins of the field, a field that was considered mostly as illegitimate until recently, and held together by our...

Chaussons in the streets: sodomy in seventeenth-century Paris.
May 1, 2006... WE HAVE LEARNED A GREAT DEAL in recent years about the sodomitical subculture of Paris in the eighteenth century, but we know relatively little about the seventeenth century because of the shortage of documentation. When Louis XIV created the...

Infidelity and the presidio captain: adultery and honor in the lives of Maria Rosa Tato y Anza and Jose Antonio Vildosola, Sonora, New Spain, 1769-1783.
May 1, 2006... IN 1767 KING CARLOS III OF SPAIN called for vecinos (citizens) of the colonial province of Sonora (now in northwestern Mexico) to wage war against a loose confederation of Seri warrior clans that inhabited the coastal fringes of the province....

"One Yank and they're off": interaction between U.S. troops and Northern Irish women, 1942-1945.
May 1, 2006... THE FIRST AMERICAN TROOPS CAME to Northern Irish shores on 26 January 1942. Their numbers peaked at 120,000 in December 1943, which represented the equivalent of one tenth of the total population before the start of World War II and, in some...

Perversion for Profit: Citizens for Decent Literature and the arousal of an antiporn public in the 1960s.
May 1, 2006... THE FILM BEGINS. "Outstanding news reporter" George Putnam warns viewers that a "floodtide of filth threatens to pervert an entire generation" and then presents a parade of unsubstantiated information: 75 to 90 percent of the pornography...

Spiral women: locating lesbian activism in New Zealand feminist art, 1975-1992.(Cover story)
May 1, 2006... THE CONNECTION BETWEEN ART AND ACTIVISM is rarely discussed in New Zealand art historical writing. (1) Yet acknowledging this link is essential for understanding the choices made, both aesthetic and iconographic, by lesbian feminist artists...

Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France. By KATHERINE CRAWFORD. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 310. $49.95 (cloth). Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France has a dual...

Pornography, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Pornography, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action. By FRANCES FERGUSON. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. 208. $45.00 (cloth); $18.00 (paper). In her very difficult yet thought-provoking latest work Frances Ferguson...

Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan. By SABINE FRUHSTUCK. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. 277. $50.00 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Sabine Fruhstuck's book is the first detailed history of sexual...

Masculinities without Men? Female Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Fictions.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Masculinities without Men? Female Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Fictions. By JEAN BOBBY NOBLE. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. Pp. 222. $85.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Jean Bobby Noble's Masculinities without Men?...

American Sexual Character: Sex, Gender, and National Identity in the Kinsey Reports.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... American Sexual Character: Sex, Gender, and National Identity in the Kinsey Reports. By MIRIAM G. REUMANN. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Pp. 305. $49.95 (cloth). Miriam G. Reumann's new book, American Sexual Character:...

Venereal Disease, Hospitals and the Urban Poor: London's "Foul Wards," 1600-1800.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Venereal Disease, Hospitals and the Urban Poor: London's "Foul Wards," 1600-1800. By KEVIN P. SIENA. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2004. Pp. 280. $80.00 (cloth). Infecting both the poor and the wealthy, the young and the...

Fragile Scholar: Power and Masculinity in Chinese Culture.(Book review)
May 1, 2006... Fragile Scholar: Power and Masculinity in Chinese Culture. By GENG SONG. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2004. Pg. 256. $39.50 (cloth). Despite a sweeping title, Fragile Scholar: Power and Masculinity in Chinese Culture, based on...

Books of critical interest.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2006... 1-0-1 Intersex: Das Zwei-Geschlechter-System als Menschenrechtsverletzung. Berlin: Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst, 2005. Adams, Vincanne, and Stacy Leigh Pigg. Sex in Development: Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global...