Journal of the History of Sexuality articles from October 2004

Journal of the History of Sexuality archives from October 2004

Editors' note: Barbara Loomis and William N. Bonds.
October 1, 2004... PASSING THE TORCH With the publication of this issue we will have edited five volumes of the Journal of the History of Sexuality. While we are grateful for this truly rewarding experience, it is time for both of us to take on other...

"Having it off" with fish, camels, and lads: sodomitic pleasures in German-language turcica.
October 1, 2004... IN 1530 THE GERMAN LUTHERAN REFORMER Justus Jonas claimed: "Wherever [the Turk] does not slay all, he leads off the best men, woman and child, and the youth, into captivity, and takes them to market in Turkey, naked, has them viewed shamefully,...

Discourse and sexual desire: German-language discourse on masturbation in the late eighteenth century.
October 1, 2004... DISCOURSE ANALYSIS AND THE HISTORY of sexuality have enjoyed a brief but very stimulating relationship. Since the 1970s the historiography of sexuality has increasingly been written in terms of the history of discourses on things sexual. Over...

"A very Proper Bostonian": rediscovering Ogden Codman and his late-nineteenth-century queer world.
October 1, 2004... WRITING FROM HIS NATIVE BOSTON in March 1892, twenty-nine-year-old Ogden Codman confided to his closest friend, Arthur, of his latest attraction: "I am rather interested in Walter Abbott, Gordon Abbott's younger brother who has been in New York...

"Anna Ruling": a problematic foremother of lesbian herstory.
October 1, 2004... THE NAME "ANNA RULING" BRINGS TO MIND one of the first lesbian activist political speeches to address the relationship between the women's movement and homosexuality. (1) Ruling delivered her speech, "Homosexualitat und Frauenbewegung"...

"The sexual state": sexuality and Scottish governance, 1950-1980.
October 1, 2004... IN RECENT YEARS HISTORIANS and social scientists have engaged in extensive research on the role that medical, legal, and moral discourses have played in shaping the social politics of sexual health and the regulation of "dangerous sexualities"...

The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity. By KATHY L. GACA. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. Pp. xvii + 359. $60.00 (cloth). The final two complete volumes of...

Mexican Masculinities.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Mexican Masculinities. By ROBERT MCKEE IRWIN. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. Pp. xxxvi +283. $54.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). This book is a sweeping survey of the history of Mexican literary representations of the...

The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government. By DAVID K. JOHNSON. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. 277. $30.00 (cloth). On the last day of February 1950 Assistant Secretary of...

Nature's Domain: Anne Lister and the Landscape of Desire.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Nature's Domain: Anne Lister and the Landscape of Desire. By JILL LIDDINGTON. Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire: Pennine Pens, 2003. Pp. 123. [pounds sterling]7.50 (paper). Since Anne Lister (1791-1840) was both a keen walker and an amorous...

Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement. By JENNIFER NELSON. New York: New York University Press, 2003. Pp. x + 225. $55.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper). On April 25, 2004, more than 1 million marchers converged on the nation's...

Courtly Love in Medieval Manuscripts.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Courtly Love in Medieval Manuscripts. By PAMELA PORTER. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp. 64. $19.95 (paper). Pamela Porter's Courtly Love in Medieval Manuscripts is a beautifully illustrated introduction to courtly love in...

Love and Eugenics in the Late-Nineteenth Century: Rational Reproduction and the New Woman.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Love and Eugenics in the Late-Nineteenth Century: Rational Reproduction and the New Woman. By ANGELIQUE RICHARDSON. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xvii + 250. $70.00 (cloth). In Britain the emergence of the woman's movement in...

Moved by Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Moved by Love: Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France. By MARY D. SHERIFF. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 303. $35.00. This book is not exactly a history of art, though it deals extensively...

Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief.(Book Review)
October 1, 2004... Demon Lovers: Witchcraft, Sex, and the Crisis of Belief. By WALTER STEPHENS. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xv + 451. $20.00 (paper). This is an important book, one that asks us to reconsider the weight of scholarly...

Books of critical interest.
October 1, 2004... Abramson, Paul R., and Steven D. Pinkerton. With Pleasure: Thoughts on the Nature of Human Sexuality. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. x + 313. Paper, $19.95. Bainbridge, David. The X in Sex: How the X Chromosome...