Journal of the History of Sexuality

January 2013, 22:1
September 2012, 21:3
May 2012, 21:2
January 2012, 21:1
September 2011, 20:3
May 2011, 20:2
January 2011, 20:1
September 2010, 19:3
May 2010, 19:2
January 2010, 19:1
September 2009, 18:3
May 2009, 18:2
January 2009, 18:1
September 2008, 17:3
May 2008, 17:2
January 2008, 17:1
September 2007, 16:3 (special issue on Latin America)
May 2007, 16:2
January 2007, 16:1
September 2006, 15:3
May 2006, 15:2
January 2006, 15:1
October 2005, 14:4
July 2005, 14:3
January/April 2005, 14:1/2
Archives

January 2013, 22:1

In Bizarre Fashion: The Double-Voiced Discourse of John Willie's Fetish Fantasia

Julia Pine

Colonial Allure: Normal Homoeroticism and Sodomy in French and Timucuan Encounters in Sixteenth-Century Florida

Heather Martel

Reconsidering Libertines and Early Modern Heterosexuality: Sex and American Founder Gouverneur Morris

Thomas Foster

Trauma, Body, and Mind: Forensic Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Dutch Rape Cases

Willemijn Ruberg

Keying Desire: Alfred Kinsey's Use of Punched-Card Machines for Sex Research

Donna J. Drucker

"The Civil Rights of Parents": Race and Conservative Politics in Anita Bryant's Campaign against Gay Rights in 1970s Florida

Gillian Frank

September 2012, 21:3

Winnie Woodfern Comes Out in Print: Story-Paper Authorship and Protolesbian Self-Representation in Antebellum America

Daniel A. Cohen

From the Sexual Question to the Praise of Prostitution: Modernism and Sexual Politics in Florence, 1908-1914

Mauro Pasqualini

Disorderly Houses: Residencies, Privacy, and the Surveillance of Sexuality in 1920s Harlem

Stephen Robertson, Shane White, Stephen Garton, and Graham White

Waiting for Uncle Ben: Age-Structured Homosexuality in New Zealand, 1920-1950

Chris Brickell

Comrades, Queers, and Oddballs: Sodomy, Masculinity, and Gendered Violence in Leningrad Province of the 1950s

Dan Healey

Sex and the Girl's Single: French Popular Music and the Long Sexual Revolution of the 1960s

Jonathyne Briggs

May 2012, 21:2

Special Issue: Approaches to Childbirth in the Middle Ages

Guest Editor: Margaret Cormack

Introduction: Approaches to Childbirth in the Middle Ages

Margaret Cormack

Childbearing and Infancy in the Carolingian World

Valerie L. Garver

Christianization, Female Infanticide, and the Abundance of Female Burials at Viking Age Birka in Sweden

Nancy L. Wicker

Pregnancy and Childbirth in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century French and English Law

Fiona Harris-Stoertz

Of Vanishing Fetuses and Maidens Made-Again: Abortion, Restored Virginity, and Similar Scenarios in Medieval Irish Hagiography and Penitentials

Maeve B. Callan

Childbirth Miracles in Swedish Miracle Collections

Anders Fröjmark

Mothers and the Martyr: The Unlikely Patronage of a Medieval Dominican Preacher

Donald S. Prudlo

January 2012, 21:1

A Depiction of Male Same-Sex Seduction in Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Effects of Bad Government Fresco

Dennis Romano

The Virtues of Childhood Sexual Abuse and Marital Infidelity in Marie-Jeanne Roland’s Mémoires particuliers (1795)

Mary McAlpin

Replotting the Ethnographic Romance: Revolutionary Frenchmen in the Pacific, 1768–1804

Carol E. Harrison

Where Else but Greenwich Village? Love, Lust, and the Emergence of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Sexual Rights Agenda, 1920–1931

Leigh Ann Wheeler

Sex and the Ordinary Cuban: Cuban Physicians, Eugenics, and Marital Sexuality, 1933–1958

Sarah R. Arvey

A Busman’s Holiday in the Not-So-Lonely Crowd: Business Culture, Epistolary Networks, and Itinerant Homosexuality in Mid-Twentieth-Century America

Nicholas L. Syrett

Charlotte Wolff’s Contribution to Bisexual History and to (Sexuality) Theory and Research: A Reappraisal for Queer Times

Toni Brennan and Peter Hegarty

September 2011, 20:3

Special Issue: Intersections of Race and Sexuality

Guest Editor: Ramón A. Gutiérrez

Sexual Abuse of Black Men under American Slavery

Thomas A. Foster

“Crimes which startle and horrify”: Gender, Age, and the Racialization of Sexual Violence in White American Newspapers, 1870–1900

Estelle B. Freedman

Missionary Wives and the Sexual Narratives of German Lutheran Missions among Australian Aborigines

Lisa Curtis-Wendlandt

“Ramon is not one of these”: Race and Sexuality in the Construction of Silent Film Actor Ramón Novarro’s Star Image

Ernesto Chávez

Containing “Perversion”: African Americans and Same-Sex Desire in Cold War Los Angeles

Kevin Allen Leonard

“Miss Eurafrica”: Men, Women’s Sexuality, and Métis Identity in Late Colonial French Africa, 1945–1960

Rachel Jean-Baptiste

Men in the House: Race, Welfare, and the Regulation of Men’s Sexuality in the United States, 1961–1972

Alison Lefkovitz

May 2011, 20:2

Special Issue: Sexual Deviance and Social Control in Late Imperial Eastern Europe

Guest Editors: Keely Stauter-Halsted and Nancy M. Wingfield

Introduction: The Construction of Sexual Deviance in Late Imperial Eastern Europe

Keely Stauter-Halsted and Nancy M. Wingfield

Deviance and the Public Sphere: Media Sensations and Sex Scandals

Scandal at the Severnaia; or, Sex and the “New Man” in Late Imperial Odessa

Roshanna P. Sylvester

Sex Scandals, Sexual Violence, and the Word on the Street: The Kolasówna Lustmord in Cracow’s Popular Press, 1905–1906

Nathaniel D. Wood

Prostitution and Sex Trafficking

The Physician and the Fallen Woman: Medicalizing Prostitution in the Polish Lands

Keely Stauter-Halsted

Destination: Alexandria, Buenos Aires, Constantinople; “White Slavers” in Late Imperial Austria

Nancy M. Wingfield

Prostitutes as a Threat to National Honor in Habsburg-Occupied Serbia during the Great War

Jovana Knežević

Cross-Dressing and Gender Bending

Cross-Dressing in a Russian Orthodox Monastery: The Case of Mariia Zakharova

Christine D. Worobec

Of Female Chastity and Male Arms: The Balkan “Man-Woman” in the Age of the World Picture

Aleksandra Djajić Horváth

January 2011, 20:1

Exclusion as Language and the Language of Exclusion: Tracing Regimes of Gender through Linguistic Representations of the "Eunuch"

Shane Gannon

Between Monks: Tales of Monastic Companionship in Early Byzantium

Derek Krueger

Unbecoming Women: Sex Reversal in the Scientific Discourse on Female Deviance in Britain, 1880-1920

Lisa Carstens

"Must we dance naked?": Art, Beauty, and Law in Munich and Paris, 1911-1913

Edward Ross Dickinson

The Stained Glass Closet: Celibacy and Homosexuality in the Church of England to 1955

Timothy Jones

"The most profoundly revolutionary act a homosexual can engage in": Drag and the Politics of Gender Presentation in the San Francisco Gay Liberation Movement, 1964-1972

Betty Luther Hillman

September 2010, 19:3

"Fitful Rambles of an Unruly Pencil": George Southern's Challenge to Sexual Normativity in 1920s Australia

Lisa Featherstone

Liberal Exclusions and Sex between Men in the Modern Era: Speculations on a Framework

Charles Upchurch

Power and Passion in Sixteenth-Century Florence: The Sexual and Political Reputations of Alessandro and Cosimo I de' Medici

Nicholas Scott Baker

"Against Their Own Weakness": Policing Sexuality and Women in San Antonio, Texas, during World War I 458

Courtney Q. Shah

Paying for Love: Women's Work and Love in Popular Film in Interwar Britain

Christine Grandy

"Kissing is a symbol of democracy!" Dating, Democracy, and Romance in Occupied Japan, 1945–1952

Mark McLelland

The American Gay Rights Movement and Patriotic Protest

Simon Hall

May 2010, 19:2

Picturing Same-Sex Marriage in the Antebellum United States: The Union of "Two Most Excellent Men" in Longstreet's "A Sage Conversation"

Timothy Stewart-Winter and Simon Stern

Shifting the Scene of the Crime: Sodomy and the American History of Sexual Violence

Stephen Robertson

Frigidity at the Fin-de-Siècle in France: A Slippery and Capacious Concept

Alison Moore and Peter Cryle

From Subversion to Obscenity: FBI's Investigation of the Early Homophile Movement in the United States, 1953-1958

Douglas M. Charles

Parthenogenesis and Lesbian Separatism: Regenerating Women's Community through Virgin Birth in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s

Greta Rensenbrink

Asking Angela: Discourses about Sexuality in an Irish Problem Page, 1963-1980

Paul Ryan

January 2010, 19:1

Special Issue: Desire and Eroticism in Medieval Europe, Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries: Sex without Sex

Guest Editors:Sally N. Vaughn and Christina Christoforatou

Introduction

Sally N. Vaughn and Christina Christoforatou

The Bishop in the Bedroom: Witnessing Episcopal Sexuality in an Age of Reform

Megan McLaughlin

Long Distance Love: The Ideology of Male-Female Spiritual Friendship in Goscelin of St. Bertin's Liber confortatorius

H. M. Canatella

Saint Anselm and His Students Writing About Love: A Theological Foundation for the Rise of Romantic Love in Europe

Sally N. Vaughn

The Chaste Erotics of Marie d' Oignies and Jacques de Vitry

Jennifer N. Brown

Chaste Marriage, Sexual Desire, and Christian Martyrdom in La vie seinte Audrée

Virginia Blanton

"Temples to Christ's Indwelling": Forms of Chastity in a Barking Abbey Manuscript

Nicole R. Rice

Uncovering Difference: Encoded Homoerotic Anxiety within the Christian Eremitic Tradition in Medieval England

Michelle M. Sauer

September 2009, 18:3

Special Issue: New Perspectives on Commercial Sex and Sex Work in Urban America, 1850-1940

Guest Editor: Timothy J. Gilfoyle

"Wouldn't a Boy Do?" Placing Early-Twentieth-Century Male Youth Sex Work into Histories of Sexuality

Don Romesburg

Saving Young Girls from Chinatown: White Slavery and Woman Suffrage, 1910-1920

Mary Ting Yi Lui

"Bright and Good Looking Colored Girl": Black Women's Sexuality and "Harmful Intimacy" in Early-Twentieth-Century New York

Cheryl D. Hicks

"Look for the Moral and Sex Sides of the Problem": Investigating Jewishness, Desire and Disciplne at Macy's Department Store, New York City, 1913

Val Marie Johnson

Barnum's Brothel: P.T.'s "Last Great Humbug"

Timothy J. Gilfoyle

May 2009, 18:2

Mollies Down Under: Cross-Dressing and Australian Masculinity in Peter Carey'sTrue History of the Kelly Gang

Heather Smyth

Medieval Arab Lesbians and Lesbian-Like Women

Sahar Amer

Women, the Family, and the Fate of the Nation in American Anti-Catholic Narratives, 1830–1860

Sandra Frink

Faith, Desire, and Sexual Identity: Constance Maynard's Atonement for Passion

Pauline Phipps

The Queer Histories of a Crime: Representations and Narratives of Leopold and Loeb

David S. Churchill

January 2009, 18:1

Special Issue: Feminine Sexual Pathologies in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Europe

Guest Editors: Peter Cryle and Lisa Downing

Introduction: Feminine Sexual Pathologies

Peter Cryle and Lisa Downing

From Lamarck to Aberration: Nature, Hierarchies, and Gender

Caroline Warman

Female Sterilization and Artificial Insemination at the French Fin de Siècle: Facts and Fictions

Michael Finn

"A Terrible Ordeal from Every Point of View": (Not) Managing Female Sexuality on the Wedding Night

Peter Cryle

Housewife or Harlot? Sex and the Married Woman in Nineteenth-Century France

Rachel Mesch

Theorizing Female Inversion: Sexology, Discipline, and Gender at the Fin de Siècle

Heike Bauer

The Origin of Italian Sexological Studies: Female Sexual Inversion, ca. 1870-1900

Chiara Beccalossi

Murder in the Feminine: Marie Lafarge and the Sexualization of the Nineteenth-Century Criminal Woman

Lisa Downing

Rethinking Gendered Perversion and Degeneration in Visions of Sadism and Masochism, 1886-1930

Alison Moore

Selfish Passions and Artificial Desire: Rereading Clérambault's Study of "Silk Erotomania"

Peta Allen Shera

September 2008, 17:3

Illegal Sexual Behavior in Late Medieval Norway as Testified in Supplications to the Pope

Torstein Jørgensen

Producing Patriarchy: Male Sodomy and Gender in Early Modern Spain

Cristian Berco

Women's Bodies, Demography, and Public Health: Abortion Policy and Perspectives in the Ottoman Empire of the Nineteenth Century

Tuba Demirci and Selçuk Akşin Somel

Pathologizing the Leaky Male Body: Spermatorrhoea in Nineteenth-Century British Medicine and Popular Anatomical Museums

Elizabeth Stephens

Queering Fundamentalism: John Balcom Shaw and the Sexuality of a Protestant Orthodoxy

Kathryn Lofton

May 2008, 17:2

Who Is the Subject? Queer Theory Meets Oral History

Nan Alamilla Boyd

Erotica and Women in Early Modern France: Madeleine de l'Aubespine's Queer Poems
This article received the 2009 Nancy Lyman Roelker Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference.

Anna Klosowska

Prostitution and the Origins of the Governmental Regulatory System in Nineteenth-Century Spain: The Plans of the Trienio Liberal, 1820-1823

Jean-Louis Guereña

Controlling Male Sexuality: Combating Venereal Disease in the New Zealand Military during Two World Wars

Antje Kampf

The Battle in Every Man's Bed: Playboy and the Fiery Feminists

Carrie Pitzulo

January 2008, 17:1

Special Issue: Masculinity and Homosexuality in Germany and the German Colonies, 1880-1945

Guest Editors: Daniel Walther and Clayton Whisnant

Introduction: Gay German History: Future Directions?

Clayton Whisnant

Racializing Sex: Same-Sex Relations, German Colonial Authority, and Deutschtum

Daniel J. Walther

Colonial Intimacy: The Rechenberg Scandal and Homosexuality in German East Africa

Heike I. Schmidt

Male Sexuality and Psychological Trauma: Soldiers and Sexual Disorder in World War I and Weimar Germany

Jason Crouthamel

The Rites of Artgenossen: Contesting Homosexual Political Culture in Weimar Germany

Glenn Ramsey

Queer Eyes and Wagnerian Guys: Homoeroticism in the Art of the Third Reich

Tim Pursell

September 2007, 16:3

Special Issue: Latin American Sexualities, Guest Editor: Ramón A. Gutiérrez

Introduction to the Special Issue

Ramón A. Gutiérrez

Masturbation, Salvation, and Desire: Connecting Sexuality and Religiosity in Colonial Mexico

Zeb Tortorici

Women on Top: The Love Magic of the Indian Witches of New Mexico

Ramón A. Gutiérrez

Conjugal Violence, Sex, Sin, and Murder in the Mission Communities of Alta California

Brian T. McCormack

Masculine Friendships, Sentiment, and Homoerotics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico: The Correspondence of José María Calderón y Tapia, 1820s-1850s

Víctor Manuel Macías-González

Plebeian Masculinity and Sexual Comedy in Buenos Aires, 1880-1930

Pablo Ben

Sex and the Security State: Gender, Sexuality, and "Subversion" at Brazil's Escola Superior de Guerra, 1964-1985

Benjamin Cowan

"Obvious Gays" and the State Gaze: Cuban Gay Visibility and U.S. Immigration Policy during the 1980 Mariel Boatlift

Susana Peña

May 2007, 16:2

The Peirce Brothers, John Addington Symonds, Horatio Brown, and the Boundaries of Defending Homosexuality in Late-Nineteenth-Century Anglo-America

William Pencak

Purgatory, Punishment, and the Discourse of Holy Widowhood in the High and Later Middle Ages

Katherine Clark

Policing Sex in Germany, 1882-1982: A Preliminary Statistical Analysis

Edward Ross Dickinson

Free for All Lesbians: Lesbian Cultural Production and Consumption in the United States during the 1970s

Heather Murray

Discophobia: Antigay Prejudice and the 1979 Backlash against Disco

Gillian Frank

January 2007, 16:1

A Neglected Document on Socialism and Sex

Christopher Phelps

Female Mutability and Male Anxiety in an Early Buddhist Legend

Serinity Young

Milkmaids, Ploughmen, and Sex in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Robin Ganev

Sapphism and Sedition: Producing Female Homosexuality in Great War Britain

Deborah Cohler

A Part and Apart: Lesbian and Straight Feminist Activists Negotiate Identity in a Second-Wave Organization

Stephanie Gilmore and Elizabeth Kaminski

September 2006, 15:3

Queer Hoover: Sex, Lies, and Political History

Claire Bond Potter

Children of Disorder: Clerical Parentage, Illegitimacy, and Reform in the Middle Ages

Laura Wertheimer

Sexual and Textual Indeterminacy: Eighteenth-Century English Representations of Sapphism

Catherine Craft-Fairchild

Authenticity and Asceticism: Discourse and Performance in Nude Culture and Health Reform in Belgium, 1920-1940

Evert Peeters

Gayola: Police Professionalization and the Politics of San Francisco's Gay Bars, 1950-1968

Christopher Agee

May 2006, 15:2

Chaussons in the Streets: Sodomy in Seventeenth-Century Paris

Jeffrey Merrick

Infidelity and the Presidio Captain: Adultery and Honor in the Lives of María Rosa Tato y Anza and José Antonio Vildósola, Sonora, New Spain, 1769-1783

Carlos Herrera

"One Yank and They're Off": Interaction between U.S. Troops and Northern Irish Women, 1942-1945

Leanne McCormick

Perversion for Profit: Citizens for Decent Literature and the Arousal of an Antiporn Public in the 1960s

Whitney Strub

Spiral Women: Locating Lesbian Activism in New Zealand Feminist Art, 1975-1992

Judith Collard

January 2006, 15:1

Monastic Masturbation in Pali Buddhist Texts

J. Duncan M. Derrett

Heterosexuality as a Threat to Medieval Studies

James A. Schultz

"Inspired by Flames of Love": Homosexuality, Mysticism, and Moravian Brothers around 1750

Paul Peucker

"Model Mamas": The Domestic Partnership of Home Economics Pioneers Flora Rose and Martha Van Rensselaer

Megan Elias

The Joy of Work: Helen Gurley Brown, Gender, and Sexuality in the White-Collar Office

Julie Berebitsky

October 2005, 14:4

The Queer Life and Afterlife of Roger Casement

Brian Lewis

Embodying Delinquency: Boys' Bodies, Sexuality, and Juvenile Justice History in Early-Twentieth-Century Quebec

Tamara Myers

"Your body is yours": Anarchism, Birth Control, and Eugenics in Interwar France

Richard Sonn

Sexualizing Youth: Morality Campaigns and Representations of Youth in Early 1960s Buenos Aires

Valeria Manzano

July 2005, 14:3

Savages in the Scottish Enlightenment's History of Desire

Pat Moloney

Nationalizing Sexuality: Sexual Stereotypes in the Habsburg Empire

Alexander Maxwell

Heterogeneous Imperialism and the Regulation of Sexuality in British West Africa

Richard Phillips

Sexuality and Gender in Hirschfeld's Die Transvestiten: A Case of the "Elusive Evidence of the Ordinary"

Darryl B. Hill

January/April 2005, 14:1/2

Special Issue: Studying the History of Sexuality: Theory, Methods, Praxis
Guest Editors: Julian Carter and Lesley A. Hall

Introduction: Theory, Methods, Praxis: The History of Sexuality and the Question of Evidence

Julian Carter

Without a Trace: Sexuality and the Colonial Archive

Anjali Arondekar

Where in the World are the Lesbians?

Linda Garber

Vernon Lee's Place in Lesbian History: Some Thoughts on Letters, Evidence, and Desire

Sally Newman

Feminine Masculinities: Scientific and Literary Representations of "Female Inversion" at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Claudia Breger

On Mother-Love: History, Queer Theory, and Nonlesbian Identity

Julian Carter

Twilight Moments

Anna Clark

What's Law Got to Do with It? Legal Records and Sexual Histories

Stephen Robertson

Remembering Foucault

Jeffrey Weeks

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