Journal of Women's History articles from January 1998

Journal of Women's History archives from January 1998

From temporary wife to prostitute: sexuality and economic change in early modern Southeast Asia.(Sexing Women's History)
January 1, 1998... The historical study of women and gender in Southeast Asia is relatively new, and has concentrated almost exclusively on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This article provides a deeper base to the discussion by examining changing attitudes...

The Eberbach asylum and the practice(s) of nymphomania in Germany, 1815-1849.(Sexing Women's History)
January 1, 1998... This article is a case study of rural, lower-class female patients diagnosed with (or displaying symptoms of) nymphomania at one of Germany's first modern insane asylums, Eberbach. It seeks to uncover the social dynamics behind the translation of...

"A woman who married three wives": management of disruptive knowledge in the 1879 Australian case of Edward De Lacy Evans.(Sexing Women's History)
January 1, 1998... Edward De Lacy Evans, born female, lived as a man for twenty-three years between 1856 and 1879, in the colony of Victoria, Australia. The "imposture" was discovered when s/he was admitted to a lunatic asylum, and this attracted substantial press...

The masculine degenerate: American doctors' portrayals of the lesbian intellect, 1880-1949.(Sexing Women's History)
January 1, 1998... Beginning in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American medical writers first attempted to define the troubling specter of the lesbian. As a central part of this endeavor, medical professionals tried to pinpoint the lesbian's...

Battle colors: race, sex, and colonial soldiery in World War I.(Sexing Women's History)
January 1, 1998... The First World War saw the adoption in Britain of significant measures of constraint aimed at white working-class women and at black colonial, especially Indian, soldiers. While British and Dominion troops enjoyed considerable freedom of...

"El fruto envenenado del arbol capitalista": women workers and the prostitution of labor in urban Chile, 1896-1925.(Sexing Women's History)
January 1, 1998... This article examines the phenomenon of female prostitution in early-twentieth-century urban Chile through the lens of the labor press, in which the growth of female prostitution was consistently linked to industrial employers and their...

Spirited youth or fiends incarnate: the Samarcand arson case and female adolescence in the American South.(Sexing Women's History)
January 1, 1998... This article examines the 1931 arson trial of sixteen inmates of the North Carolina reformatory for delinquent girls. The sensational trial triggered a public debate on the meaning of "sexual delinquency" in working-class white girls. While the...

"The burning of letters continues": elusive identities and the historical construction of sexuality.(Sexing Women's History)
January 1, 1998... To explore how historians grapple with the sexual identity of their subjects, this article reflects on the research process for a biography of prison reformer Miriam Van Waters. It reviews three kinds of evidence that combine to shape an...

Creating GI Jane: Sexuality and Power in the Women's Army Corps during World War II.
January 1, 1998... Leisa D. Meyer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. 260 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-231-10144-9 (c1). The authors and editors of these five books present the history of women's sexuality in dramatically different narrative frameworks. Women's...

The Other Americans: Sexual Variance in the National Past.
January 1, 1998... Charles O. Jackson, ed. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Press, 1996. 249 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-27595-550-8 (c1); 0-275-95551-6 (pb). The authors and editors of these five books present the history of women's sexuality in dramatically different narrative...

Banishing the Beast: Sexuality and the Early Feminists.
January 1, 1998... Lucy Bland. New York: The New Press, 1995. 410 pp.; ill. ISBN 1-56584-307-X (c1). The authors and editors of these five books present the history of women's sexuality in dramatically different narrative frameworks. Women's sexuality is here...

Homosexuality in Modern France.
January 1, 1998... Jeffrey Merrick and Bryant T. Ragan, Jr., eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 253 pp. ISBN 0-19-509303-8 (c1); 019-509304-6 (pb). The authors and editors of these five books present the history of women's sexuality in dramatically...

Machos, Mistresses, Madonnas: Contesting the Power of Latin American Gender Imagery.
January 1, 1998... Marit Melhuus and Kristi Anne Stolen, eds. New York: Verso, 1996. 272 pp. ISBN 1-85984-805-2 (c1); 1-85984-160-0 (pb). The authors and editors of these five books present the history of women's sexuality in dramatically different narrative...

Dismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain, and the Great War.
January 1, 1998... Joanna Bourke. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 336 pp. ISBN 0-226-06746-7 (c1). Pick up any catalogue issued by an academic press these days, and you will be sure to notice that more and more books on the history of sexuality...

Love between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism.
January 1, 1998... Bernadette J. Brooten. University of Chicago Press, 1996. xxii + 412 pp. ISBN 0-226-075915 (c1). Pick up any catalogue issued by an academic press these days, and you will be sure to notice that more and more books on the history of...

Authority and Sexuality in Early Modern Burgundy.
January 1, 1998... James R. Farr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. viii + 252 pp. ISBN 0-19408907-3 (c1). Pick up any catalogue issued by an academic press these days, and you will be sure to notice that more and more books on the history of sexuality...

Torrid Zones: Maternity, Sexuality, and Empire in Eighteenth-Century English Narratives.
January 1, 1998... Felicity A. Nussbaum. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. x + 264 pp. ISBN 0-8018-4075-4 (pb). Pick up any catalogue issued by an academic press these days, and you will be sure to notice that more and more books on the...

Nasculinity and Male Codes of Honor in Modern France.
January 1, 1998... Robert A. Nye. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. ix + 316 pp. ISBN 0-19-404649-8 Pick up any catalogue issued by an academic press these days, and you will be sure to notice that more and more books on the history of sexuality are...