Journal of the History of Sexuality articles from October 2003

Journal of the History of Sexuality archives from October 2003

Editors' note: Barbara Loomis and William N. Bonds.
October 1, 2003... ADDENDUM TO THE EDITORS' NOTE IN VOLUME 12, NUMBER 1 OF THIS JOURNAL The articles that appeared in volume 12, number 1 were all based upon papers presented at a symposium on the World League for Sexual Reform held at Clair College,...

Love, sodomy, and scandal: controlling the sexual reputation of Henry III.
October 1, 2003... IN 1589 HENRY III, king of France, was addressed by an outraged subject as "Henry of Valois, buggerer, son of a whore, tyrant." (1) The audacity of calling a king by his family name and then attacking him in sexually pejorative terms indicates...

The trials of Frederick Hollick: obscenity, sex education, and medical democracy in the antebellum United States.(1846 trial)
October 1, 2003... IN THE SPRING OF 1846 a large audience gathered to hear what promised to be a hotly contested lecture. Speakers on the lyceum circuit that year had tackled national controversies such as the antislavery movement and the American war against...

Prostitution and moral reform in the borderlands: El Paso, 1890-1920.
October 1, 2003... EL PASO NATIVE Owen Payne White eulogized the passing of the frontier in his numerous books and articles about El Paso and the Southwest. For White and authors like C. L. Sonnichsen and H. Gordon Frost, the El Paso of the past was a glorious...

Bahnhof boys: policing male prostitution in post-Nazi Berlin.
October 1, 2003... ALTHOUGH GERMANY'S unconditional surrender swept away much of the political rubble of the Third Reich, the shattered physical and social geography of Berlin hampered official efforts to rebuild the former capital. In 1945 Berlin was divided...

Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994. By ELIZABETH A. ARMSTRONG. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xix + 272. $60.00 (cloth); $22.50 (paper). In Forging Gay Identities, Elizabeth Armstrong...

HIV Stories: The Archaeology of AIDS Writing in France, 1985-1988.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... HIV Stories: The Archaeology of AIDS Writing in France, 1985-1988. By JEAN-PIERRE BOULE. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2002. Pp. vii + 184. $52.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). This book is a literary analysis of six texts from a period...

Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Sex Drives: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism. By LAURA FROST. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. viii + 197. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). In Sex Drives Laura Frost examines the modernist aesthetic with an eye to...

Homoerotic Space: The Poetics of Loss in Renaissance Literature.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Homoerotic Space: The Poetics of Loss in Renaissance Literature. By STEPHEN GUY-BRAY. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Pp. 320. $60.00 (cloth). There is a kind of literary criticism that transparently evokes the critic's own...

Marriage and Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Marriage and Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. Edited by EUKENE LACARRA LANZ. New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. xvi + 265. $85.00 (cloth). Over the years the study of marriage and sexuality has become an increasingly important...

"Miscegenation": Making Race in America.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... "Miscegenation": Making Race in America. By ELISE LEMIRE. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. Pp. 204. $35.00 (cloth). In "Miscegenation": Making Race in America, Elise Lemire, intent on developing a genealogy of...

The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome. Edited by MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM and JUHA SIHVOLA. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. viii + 457. $75.00 (cloth); $26.00 (paper). The Sleep of...

Lytton Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity: The Last Eminent Victorian.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Lytton Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity: The Last Eminent Victorian. By JULIE ANNE TADDEO. Binghamton, N.Y.: Harrington Park Press, 2002. Pp. 189. $39.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Like its title, Julie Anne Taddeo's study...

Working Like a Homosexual: Camp, Capital, Cinema.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Working Like a Homosexual: Camp, Capital, Cinema. By MATTHEW TINKCOM. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. x + 226. $54.95 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Matthew Tinkcom's Working Like a Homosexual is a welcome, deliciously quirky, and...

Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent.(Book Reviews)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Gay Rebel of the Harlem Renaissance: Selections from the Work of Richard Bruce Nugent. Edited by THOMAS H. WIRTH. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002. Pp. 304. $84.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Richard Bruce Nugent was a bridge between...

Books of critical interest.
October 1, 2003... Abramson, Paul R., Steven D. Pinkerton, and Mark Huppin. Sexual Rights in America: The Ninth Amendment and the Pursuit of Happiness. New York: New York University Press, 2003. Pp. viii + 227. Cloth, $27.95. Banner, Lois W. Intertwined...