Journal of the History of Sexuality articles from May 2008

Journal of the History of Sexuality archives from May 2008

Editor's note: Mathew Kuefler.(Editorial)(Correction notice)
May 1, 2008... Congratulations are in order for Prof. Tamara Myers of the University of British Columbia, the author of "Embodying Delinquency: Boys' Bodies, Sexuality, and Juvenile Justice History in Early-Twentieth-Century Quebec," which was published in...

Who is the subject? Queer theory meets oral history.(Essay)
May 1, 2008... THE TINY SUBFIELD OF U.S. gay, lesbian, and queer history has evolved since the publication of John D'Emilio's 1983 Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities into a fledgling discipline that has over time established an overarching set of research...

Erotica and women in early modern France: Madeleine de l'Aubespine's queer poems.(Critical essay)
May 1, 2008... WHAT CAN WE KNOW ABOUT AN early modern woman's sexuality? Consider these lines by Madeleine de l'Aubespine (1546-96): "Riddle" As the sweetest diversion that I could ever find, Frequently, after dinner, for fear of...

Prostitution and the origins of the governmental regulatory system in nineteenth-century Spain: the plans of the Trienio Liberal, 1820-1823.(Essay)
May 1, 2008... THE HISTORY OF PROSTITUTION IS NOW a classic field of the history of sexuality in many countries, especially during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (1) Historians have been particularly interested in the attitudes of authorities toward...

Controlling male sexuality: combating venereal disease in the New Zealand military during two world wars.
May 1, 2008... THERE IS AN ABUNDANCE OF STUDIES about control of venereal disease in the military during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Historians have written extensively on this subject, beginning with the Contagious Diseases Acts, which...

The battle in every man's bed: Playboy and the fiery feminists.(Essay)
May 1, 2008... I was a feminist before there was such a thing as feminism. That's a part of the history very few people know. (1) --Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy magazine IT MAY SEEM OBVIOUS THAT Playboy and the women's movement would come to blows...

Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Ernest Hemingway: Machismo and Masochism. By RICHARD FANTINA. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. 224. $69.95 (cloth). Masculinity has arguably always been the central feature of scholarship on Ernest Hemingway; one need only think of...

Sodom on the Thames: Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Sodom on the Thames: Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times. By MORRIS B. KAPLAN. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2005. Pp. 328. $35.00 (cloth). In 1889, in an unpublished letter to the radical journal Truth during the Cleveland...

Queer Wars: The New Gay Right and Its Critics.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Queer Wars: The New Gay Right and Its Critics. By PAUL ROBINSON. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 192. $25.00 (cloth); $18.00 (paper). The last fifteen years have witnessed the seeming contradiction of openly gay...

Sex, Marriage, and Family in John Calvin's Geneva. Vol. 1. Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage.(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Sex, Marriage, and Family in John Calvin's Geneva. Vol. 1. Courtship, Engagement, and Marriage. By JOHN WITTE, JR., and ROBERT M. KINGDON. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2005. Pp. 544. $32.00 (paper). With individuals and institutions...

Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People.(The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and Transgender Rights)(Book review)
May 1, 2008... Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People. By JOAN ROUGHGARDEN. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. 474. $40.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). The Riddle of Gender: Science, Activism, and...

Books of critical interest.(Brief article)(Recommended readings)
May 1, 2008... Cheney, Victor T. A Brief History of Castration. 2nd ed. Bloomington, Ind.: Authorhouse, 2006. Pp. 243. $13.40 (paper). Firestein, Beth A., ed. Becoming Visible: Counseling Bisexuals across the Lifespan. New York: Columbia University Press,...