Journal of the History of Sexuality articles from October 2005

Journal of the History of Sexuality archives from October 2005

Editor's note: Mathew Kuefler.
October 1, 2005... I would very much like to express my gratitude to Raymond Starr, Professor Emeritus of History at San Diego State University, and to Paul Feldman of Houston, Texas, for their donations toward the operations of the Editorial Office of the...

The queer life and afterlife of Roger Casement.
October 1, 2005... THE YEAR IS 1910, THE SCENE, Iquitos in northeastern Peru, a river port as far up the Amazon as steamboats traveled. Roger Casement, sauntering along the waterfront at night, is on the prowl, hoping to make eye contact. He exchanges glances...

Embodying delinquency: boys' bodies, sexuality, and juvenile justice history in early-twentieth-century Quebec.
October 1, 2005... JUVENILE JUSTICE WAS BORN in the reform schools of the nineteenth century and matured in the juvenile courts of the early twentieth. From the outset, juvenile delinquency was a subjective concept, invoking gender, class, and racial...

"Your body is yours": anarchism, birth control, and eugenics in interwar France.
October 1, 2005... EUGENICS IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD (1918-39) is generally associated with Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, though interest in preventing the "unfit" from breeding also reached a peak in the United States in these same years. (1) Most French...

Sexualizing youth: morality campaigns and representations of youth in early 1960s Buenos Aires.
October 1, 2005... BETWEEN OCTOBER 1960 AND MAY 1961 the Personal Security Section of the Argentinean Federal Police arrested thousands of people in Buenos Aires. Police officials captured women and men from nightclubs, transient hotels, and public squares,...

Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall.(Book review)
October 1, 2005... Screened Out: Playing Gay in Hollywood from Edison to Stonewall. By RICHARD BARRIOS. New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. 416. $32.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). Richard Barrios's book examines hundreds of both obscure and well-known movies with...

White Women, Rape and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960.(Book review)
October 1, 2005... White Women, Rape and the Power of Race in Virginia, 1900-1960. By LISA LINDQUIST DORR. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. 336. $49.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). In White Women, Rape and the Power of Race in Virginia,...

The Sexual Organization of the City.(Book review)
October 1, 2005... The Sexual Organization of the City. Edited by EDWARD O. LAUMANN, STEPHEN ELLINGSON, JENNA MAHAY, ANTHONY PAIK, and YOOSIK YOUM. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. 435. $35.00 (cloth); $23.00 (paper). I don't think that my...

Power Over the Body, Equality in the Family: Rights and Domestic Relations in Medieval Canon Law.(Book review)
October 1, 2005... Power over the Body, Equality in the Family: Rights and Domestic Relations in Medieval Canon Law. By CHARLES J. REID JR. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans, 2004. Pp. 347. $35.00 (paper). One of Charles Reid's purposes in this book is...

Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South.(Book review)
October 1, 2005... Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South. By DIANE MILLER SOMMERVILLE. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. 432. $59.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). In this well-written and tightly argued monograph Diane Miller...

Books of critical interest.
October 1, 2005... Ackerman, Susan. When Heroes Love: The Ambiguity of Eros in the Stories of Gilgamesh and David. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. 353. Andrews, Walter G., and Mehmet Kalpakh. The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in...