Journal of the History of Sexuality articles from September 2006

Journal of the History of Sexuality archives from September 2006

Editor's note: Mathew Kuefler.(Editorial)
September 1, 2006... Once again, with the final issue of volume 15, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all of the scholars worldwide who have acted as reviewers of books and essays. I depend so much on the generosity of others who must take time from...

Queer Hoover: sex, lies, and political history.(J. Edgar Hoover)
September 1, 2006... WHAT DOES THE HISTORY OF SEX look like without evidence of sexual identities or proof that sex acts occurred? And how might an analysis of gossip, rumors, and perhaps even lies about sex help us to write political history? Answers to these...

Children of disorder: clerical parentage, illegitimacy, and reform in the Middle Ages.
September 1, 2006... THE MEANING AND EFFECTS OF LEGITIMATE and illegitimate birth in the works of medieval scholars, canonists, and theologians took place within a nexus of complex and not always easily reconcilable ideas. The institutional church's interest in and...

Sexual and textual indeterminacy: eighteenth-century English representations of sapphism.
September 1, 2006... UNTIL FAIRLY RECENTLY IT HAS BEEN commonplace in studies of eighteenth-century sexuality to dismiss the cultural fear of female-female erotic unions by comparing popular reactions to "sapphists" with public responses to "molly clubs" of male...

Authenticity and asceticism: discourse and performance in nude culture and health reform in Belgium, 1920-1940.
September 1, 2006... THERE ARE NUMEROUS STUDIES OF nude culture in the twentieth century. Interestingly, many appear to share a similar and quite revealing perspective, describing sexual and bodily liberation through the prism of cultural discourse. This approach...

Gayola: police professionalization and the politics of San Francisco's gay bars, 1950-1968.(City overview)
September 1, 2006... JOHN MINDERMANN ENTERED THE San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) as a patrol officer in 1959. Born and raised in San Francisco, Mindermann was the son of a cop, and although he had graduated from college with the intention of becoming a...

Friendship's Bonds: Democracy and the Novel in Victorian England.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Friendship's Bonds: Democracy and the Novel in Victorian England. By RICHARD DELLAMORA. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. 264. $49.95 (cloth). What is the connection between citizenship and friendship in Victorian...

Sex and Salvation: Virginity as a Soteriological Paradigm in Ancient Christianity.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Sex and Salvation: Virginity as a Soteriological Paradigm in Ancient Christianity. By ROGER STEVEN EVANS. New York: University Press of America, 2004. Pp. 204. $32.00 (paper). This book is an assemblage both of the ancient writers who...

An Interpretation of Desire: Essays in the Study of Sexuality.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... An Interpretation of Desire: Essays in the Study of Sexuality. By JOHN H. GAGNON. Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender and Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. 336. $65.00 (cloth); $22.50 (paper). ...

Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology. By JOHN F. GALLIHER, WAYNE H. BREKHUS, and DAVID P. KEYS. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. Pp. 144. $60.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). Laud Humphreys was a sociologist, an...

The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era. Edited by BILLY J. HARBIN, KIM MARRA, and ROBERT A. SCHANKE. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005....

Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology and Sexuality.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology and Sexuality. By ANDREW P. LYONS and HARRIET D. LYONS. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Pp. 420. $60.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology...

Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Liminal Lives: Imagining the Human at the Frontiers of Biomedicine. By SUSAN MERRILL SQUIER. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. 368. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). In 1959 C. P. Snow presented Cambridge University's annual...

Medical Women and Victorian Fiction.(Book review)
September 1, 2006... Medical Women and Victorian Fiction. By KRISTINE SWENSON. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005. Pp. 240. $39.95 (cloth). The figure of the "naughty" or "nasty" nurse is ubiquitous in modern British popular culture, as likely to...

Books of critical interest.(Bibliography)
September 1, 2006... Adams, Vincanne, and Stacy Leigh Pigg. Sex in Development: Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. 360. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper). Benemann, William. Male-Male Intimacy in...