Journal of the History of Sexuality articles from May 2007

Journal of the History of Sexuality archives from May 2007

Editor's note: Mathew Kuefler.
May 1, 2007... If you would like to review books or article submissions for the Journal of the History of Sexuality, please send me an email (to jhistsex@mail.sdsu.edu) or write to Prof. Mathew Kuefler Editor, Journal of the History of...

The Peirce brothers, John Addington Symonds, Horatio Brown, and the boundaries of defending homosexuality in late-nineteenth-century Anglo-America.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2007... ON 11 APRIL 1895 THE NATION published one of its many anonymous reviews of recent scholarly books, Horatio Brown's biography of John Addington Symonds. Both the biography and the review are unusual. The biography, consisting to a large extent...

Purgatory, punishment, and the discourse of holy widowhood in the high and later Middle Ages.(Essay)
May 1, 2007... MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN WIDOWS OCCUPIED a blessed but liminal position. Their chastity and devotion to God defined their state and invested them with intercessory and prophetic powers. Their spiritual mettle was proved as they escaped the carnality...

Policing sex in Germany, 1882-1982: a preliminary statistical analysis.(Essay)
May 1, 2007... MOST HISTORIANS TODAY UNDERSTAND the social functions of the modern state broadly in the terms of a model that has been developed--and debated--over the past five or six decades. That model had its origins in the theories of the early modern...

Free for all lesbians: lesbian cultural production and consumption in the United States during the 1970s.(Essay)
May 1, 2007... THE 1970s MARKED A MOMENT when the meaning of being a lesbian took on a broader feminist significance, referring to more than simply a homoerotic attraction but a distinctive sensibility and culture. Some lesbian writers and activists had been...

Discophobia: antigay prejudice and the 1979 backlash against disco.(Essay)
May 1, 2007... ON THURSDAY, 12 JULY 1979, over seventy thousand people converged at Comiskey Park in Chicago for a doubleheader between the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Tigers. The stadium was filled beyond its capacity, marking the highest attendance of...

When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David. By SUSAN ACKERMAN. Gender, Theory, and Religion. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. 336. $47.50 (cloth). This is the most thorough study published so...

The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society. By WALTER G. ANDREWS and MEHMET KALPAKLI. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. Pp. 440. $94.95 (cloth); $25.95 (paper). It is a...

A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... A Surgical Temptation: The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain. By ROBERT DARBY. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 368. $35.00 (cloth). Robert Darby has added a fascinating chapter to the...

Through the Reading Glass: Women, Books and Sex in the French Enlightenment.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Through the Reading Glass: Women, Books and Sex in the French Enlightenment. By SUELLEN DIACONOFF. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005. Pp. 268. $75.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Whereas the French Revolution is said to have done...

Schnittmuster des Geschlechts. Transvestitismus und Transsexualitat in der fruhen Sexualwissenschaft.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Schnittmuster des Geschlechts. Transvestitismus und Transsexualitat in der fruhen Sexualwissenschaft. By RAINER HERRN. Gie[beta]en, Germany: Psychosozial-Verlag, 2005. Pp. 246. [euro]29.90 (paper). Rainer Herrn's recent book, Schnittmuster...

With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India. By GAYATRI REDDY. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 312. $60.00 (cloth); $24.00 (paper). Appearing on the tail of a recent surge of interest in the hijra, With...

Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936-1961.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936-1961. By GARY RICHARDS. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. Pp. 256. $44.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). This impressive and useful monograph manages to be both...

The Case of the Ugly Suitor and Other Histories of Love, Gender, and Nation in Buenos Aires, 1776-1870.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... The Case of the Ugly Suitor and Other Histories of Love, Gender, and Nation in Buenos Aires, 1776-1870. By JEFFREY M. SHUMWAY. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. Pp. 200. $29.95 (paper). Although the year 1810 marks the birth of...

The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitional Spain.(Book review)
May 1, 2007... The Lives of Women: A New History of Inquisitional Spain. By LISA VOLLENDORF. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005. Pp. 256. $39.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Early modern Spain has become a vibrant canvas for the study of women. In...

Books of critical interest.(Bibliography)
May 1, 2007... Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. 240. $74.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper). Albanese, Patrizia. Mothers of the Nation: Women, Families, and Nationalism in...