Books of Critical Interest

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 Books of Critical Interest

Abu-Lughod, Lila, ed. Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle
East. Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History, edited by Sherry B. Ortner,
Nicholas B. Dirks, and Geoff Eley. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
1998. Pp.ix +300.
Baruth, Philip E., ed. Introducing Charlotte Charke: Actress, Author, Enigma. Ur-
bana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1998. Pp. viii + 250.
Blanchard, Mary Warner. Oscar Wilde ys America: Counterculture in the Gilded Age.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xv + 302.
Bonomi, Patricia U. The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics ofReputation in Brit?
ish America. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, for the
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg,
Virginia, 1998. Pp. xiv + 290.
Boone, Joseph Alien. Libidinal Currents: Sexuality and the Shaping of Modernism.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 495.
Boureau, Alain. The Lord's First Night: The Myth ofthe Droit de Cuissage. Translated
by Lydia G. Cochrane. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. ix + 300.
Bristow, Joseph. Sexuality. The New Critical Idiom series, edited by John Drakakis.
London: Routiedge, 1997. Pp. 248.
Brock, Deborah R. Making Work, Making Trouble: Prostitution as a Social Problem.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 206.
Bush, M. L. What is Love? Richard Carlile's Philosophy ofSex. London: Verso, 1998.
Pp. x + 214.
Cabaj, Robert P, and David W. Purcell, eds. On the Road to Same-Sex Marriage: A
Supportive Guide to Psychological, Political, and Legal Issues. San Francisco, CA:
Josey-Bass Publishers, 1998. Pp. xvi + 218.
Carlston, Erin G. Thinking Fascism: Sapphic Modernism and Fascist Modernity.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. viii + 217.
Chancer, Lynn S. Reconcilable Differences: Confronting Beauty, Pornography, and
the Future of Feminism. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998. Pp.
viii + 324.

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214 Books of Critical Interest

Chant, Sylvia, and Cathy Mcllwaine, comps. 3 Generations,

and Men in a Changing Century. London: Zed Books
Chu, C. Y. Cyrus. Population Dynamics: A New Econo
Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 226.
Clarke, Adele E. Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity,
athe Problems of Sex." Berkeley, CA: University of C
xvii + 421.

Comensoli, Viviana, and Anne Russell, eds. Enacting Gender on the English Renais-
sance Stage, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999. Pp. 270.
Dalby, Liza Crihfield. Geisha. With a new preface. Berkeley, CA: University of Cali?
fornia Press, 1998. Pp. xix + 347.
Dellamora, Richard, and Daniel Fischlin, eds. The Work ofOpera: Genre, Nation-
hood, and Sexual Difference. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. xi
+ 350.
Demczuk, Irene, and Frank W. Remiggi. Sortir de L'Ombre: Histoires des
Communautes Lesbienne et Gaie de Montreal. Montreal: VLB Editeur, 1998.
Pp. 409.
D'Emilio, John. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making ofa Homosexual
Minority in the United States, 1940-1970. 2d ed. Chicago: University of Chi?
cago Press, 1998. Pp. xvi + 269.
Dreger, Alice Domurat. Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex. Cam?
bridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii + 268.
Ellis, Lee, and Linda Ebertz, eds. Males, Females, and Behavior: Toward a Biological
Understanding. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. Pp. xxii + 322.
Escoffier, Jeffrey. American Homo: Community and Perversity. Berkeley, CA: Uni?
versity of California Press, 1998. Pp. xi + 278.
Feher, Michel, ed. The Libertine Reader: Eroticism and Enlightenment in Eigh?
teenth-CenturyFrance. New York: Zone Books, 1997. Pp. 1324.
Fehr, Drude von der, Anna G. Jonasdottir, and Bente Rosenbeck, eds. Is There a
Nordic Feminism? Nordic Feminist Thought on Culture and Society. Gender,
Change, and Society series, edited by David Morgan and Gail Hawkes. London:
UCL Press, 1998. Pp. xvi + 366.
Ferber, Abby L. White Man Falling: Race, Gender, and White Supremacy. Lanham,
MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. Pp. xiii + 182.
Fone, Byrne R. S., ed. The Columbia Anthology ofGay Literature: Readings from
Western Antiquity to the Present Day. New York: Columbia University Press,
1998. Pp. xxv+ 829.
Frantzen, Alien J. Before the Closet: Same-Sex Love from Beowulfto Angels in America.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xi + 369.
Gamson, Joshua. Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. x + 288.
Garrow, David J. Liberty and Sexuality: The Right to Privacy and the Making ofRoe
v. Wade. Updated, with a new epilogue. Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press, 1998. Pp. x + 1047.
Gillespie, Michele, and Catherine Clinton, eds. Taking Off the White Gloves: South?
ern Women and Women Historians. Columbia, MS: University of Missouri Press,
1998. Pp. x + 187.

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 Books of Critical Interest 215

Ginsburg, Faye D. Contested Lives: The Abortion Debate in

nity. Updated edition. Berkeley, CA: University of Cali
xxxviii + 315.
Green, Sarah F. Urban Amazons: Lesbian Feminism and Beyo
ality and Identity Battles of London. New York: St. Marti
+ 234.
Griggs, Claudine. S/he: Changing Sex and Changing Clothes. Dress, Body, Culture
series, edited by Joanne B. Eicher. New York: Berg, 1998. Pp. xii + 160.
Gruber, Helmut, and Pamela Graves, eds. Women and Socialism, Socialism and
Women: Europe Between the Two World Wars. New York: Berghahn Books, 1998.
Pp. xvi + 591.
Gustav-Wrathall, John Donald. Take the Young Stranger By the Hand: Same-Sex
Relations and the TMCA. Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society,
edited by John C. Fout. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xiv
+ 267.
Haggerty, George E. Unnatural Affections: Women and Fiction in the Later 18th
Century. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1998. Pp. x + 211.
Haidt, Rebecca. Embodying Enlightenment: Knowing the Body in Eighteenth-Cen-
tury Spanish Literature and Culture. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xi
+ 279.
Halberstam, Judith. Female Masculinity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998.
Pp. xiv + 329.
Hamilton, Marybeth. ccWhen Vm Bad, Vm Better": Mae West, Sex, and American
Entertainment. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. x + 307.
Hart, Angie. Buying and Selling Power: Anthropological Reflections on Prostitution
in Spain. Studies in Ethnographic Imagination, edited by John Comaroff and
Maurice Bloch. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. Pp. ix + 256.
Hart, Lynda. Between the Body and the Flesh: Performing Sadomasochism. Between
Men?Between Women series, edited by Lillian Faderman and Larry Gross.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii + 269.
Heathcote, Owen, Alex Hughes, and James S. Williams, eds. Gay Signatures: Gay
and Lesbian Theory, Fiction and Film in France, 1945-1995. New York: Berg,
1998. Pp. x + 227.
Helfaer, Philip M. Sex and Self-Respect: The Quest for Personal Fulfillment. Westport,
CT: Praeger, 1998. Pp. 239.
Huntington, Vince. The Huntington Sexual Behavior Scale: An Assessment, Diagno-
sis, and Classification Manual. Perspectives in Psychotherapy series. Riverton,
NJ: Weidner & Sons Publishing, 1998. Pp. 416.
Iacovetta, Franca, and Wendy Mitchinson, eds. On the Case: Explorations in Social
History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998. Pp. vi + 369.
Jenkins, Philip. Moral Panic: Changing Concepts ofthe Child Molester in Modern
America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 302.
Jordan, Mark D. The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology. Chicago Series on
Sexuality, History, and Society, edited by John C. Fout. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. x + 190.
Kates, Steven M. Twenty Million New Customers! Understanding Gay Menys Con?
sumer Behavior. New York: The Harrington Park Press, 1998. Pp. xi + 235.

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216 Books of Critical Interest

Keen, Lisa, and Suzanne B. Goldberg. Strangers to th

Law, Meaning, and Violence series, edited by Martha
Austin Sarat. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan
Kessler, Suzanne J. Lessons from the Intersexed. New B
versity Press, 1998. Pp. x + 193.
Kincaid, James R. Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Chi
Duke University Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 352.
Koch, Patricia Barthalow, and David L. Weis, eds. Sex
standing Our Sexual Values and Behavior. Foreword
New York: Continuum, 1998. Pp. xiv + 346.
Kramer, Lawrence. Franz Schubert: Sexuality, Subjectiv
ies in Music Theory and Analysis. Cambridge: Cambrid
Pp. xii + 183.
Kripal, Jeffrey J. Kali's Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings
of Ramakrishna. 2d ed., with a foreword by Wendy Doniger. Chicago: Univer?
sity of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xxxiii + 386.
Kulick, Don. Travesti: Sex, Gender and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered
Prostitutes. Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and
Culture, edited by Gilbert Herdt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Pp. xi + 269.
Leeming, David. Amazing Grace: A Life ofBeauford Delaney. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi + 221.
Liddington, Jill. Female Fortune: Land, Gender and Authority. London: Rivers Oram
Press, 1998. Pp. xxi + 298.
McCall, Laura, and Donald Yacavone, eds. A Shared Experience: Men, Women, and
the History of Gender. Foreword by Mark C. Carnes. New York: New York Uni?
versity Press, 1998. Pp. xvi + 387.
McCarren, Felicia. Dance Pathologies: Performance, Poetics, Medicine. Stanford, CA:
Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. x + 278.
McFarlane, Cameron. The Sodomite in Fiction &Satire, 1660-1750. Between Men?
Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies, edited by Lillian Faderman and
Larry Gross. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. Pp. ix + 216.
McGarry, Molly, and Fred Wasserman. Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of
Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Penguin Stu-
dio, 1998. Pp. xvii + 282.
Maclnnes, John. The End of Masculinity: The Confusion of Sexual Genesis and Sexual
Difference in Modern Society. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1998. Pp.
viii + 168.

Mackaman, Douglas. Leisure Settings: Bourgeois Culture, Medicine, and the Spa in
Modern France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. Pp. 230.
McMullan, Gordon, ed. Renaissance Configurations: Voices/Bodies/Spaces, 1580-
1690. London: MacMillan Press Ltd., 1998. Pp. xxiii + 263.
Manderson, Lenore, and Margaret Jolly, eds. Sites of Desire, Economies of Pleasure:
Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific. Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and
Society, edited by John C. Fout. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.
Pp. xii + 367.

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Markowitz, Fran, and Michael Ashkenazi, eds. Sex, Sexua

gist. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 199
Martin, Robert K. The Homosexual Tradition in Ameri
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1998. Pp. xx
Martin, Robert K., and George Piggford, eds. Queer For
Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture, e
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. {need pa
Mendelson, Sara, and Patricia Crawford. Women in Ear
1720. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp.
Middleton, Sue. Disciplining Sexuality: Foucault, Life
Foreword by Michael W. Apple. Athene Series. New
Press, 1998. Pp. xx + 148.
Miles, Sara, and Eric Rofes, eds. Opposite Sex: Gay Men o
Men. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Pp
Miller, Alice. Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society ys Betray
by Hildegarde and Hunter Hannum. With a new pre
and a new introduction by the author. New York: Noo
+ 329.

Minsky, Rosalind. Psychoanalysis and Culture: Contemporary States ofMind. New

Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii + 245.
Molloy, Sylvia, and Robert McKee Irwin, eds. Hispanisms and Homosexualities. Q
series, edited by Michele Aina Barale, et al. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,
1998. Pp. xvi + 319.
Munt, Sally R. Heroic Desire: Lesbian Identity and Cultural Space. New York: New
York University Press, 1998. Pp. viii + 184.
Murray, Stephen O., and Will Roscoe, eds. Boy Wives and Female Husbands: Studies
of African Homosexualities. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xxii + 358.
Olyan, Saul M., and Martha C. Nussbaum, eds. Sexual Orientation and Human
Rights in American Religious Discourse. New York: Oxford University Press,
1998. Pp. xix + 260.
Parker, Richard. Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality, and
Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil. New York: Routiedge, 1999. Pp. xvi +
288.

Pinto-Correia, Clara. The Ovary ofEve: Egg and Sperm and Preformation. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1997. Pp. xxiii + 396.
Pollard, Miranda. Reign of Virtue: Mobilizing Gender in Vichy France. Women in
Culture and Society, edited by Catherine R Stimpson. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xxi + 285.
Prieur, Annick. Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos.
Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture, edited
by Gilbert Herdt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xv + 293.
Prosser, Jay. Second Skins: The Body Narratives ofTranssexuality. Gender and Cul?
ture series, edited by Carolyn G. Heilbrun and Nancy K. Miller. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. x + 270.
Rambuss, Richard. Closet Devotions. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998.
Pp. xiii + 193.

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218 Books of Critical Interest

Rofes, Eric. Dry Bones Breathe: Gay Men Creating Po

tures. Haworth Gay and Lesbian Studies, edited b
York: Harrington Park Press, 1998. Pp. xii + 352.
Roman, David. Acts of Intervention: Performance, G
natural Acts: Theorizing the Performative, edited by Su
and Susan Leigh Foster. Bloomington, IN: Indiana U
xxxiii + 344.

Sadoff, Dianne F. Sciences ofthe Flesh: Representing Body and Subject in Psychoanaly-
sis. Writing Science series, edited by Timothy Lenoir and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii + 343.
Schacht, Steven P, and Doris W. Ewing, eds. Feminism and Men: Reconstructing
Gender Relations. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Pp. ix + 310.
Schanke, Robert A., and Kim Marra, eds. Passing Performances: Queer Readings of
Leading Players in American Theater History. Triangulations series, edited by
Jill Dolan and David Roman. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press,
1998. Pp. xiv + 338.
Smith, Merril D., ed. Sex and Sexuality in Early America. New York: New York
University Press, 1998. Pp. ix + 341.
Solinger, Rickie, ed. Abortion Wars: A Half Century of Struggle, 1950-2000. Ber?
keley, CA: University of California Press, 1998. Pp. xvi + 413.
Spaas, Lieve, ed. Paternity and Fatherhood: Myths and Realities. New York: St.
Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. xv + 284.
Stewart, Suzanne R Sublime Surrender: Male Masochism at the Fin-de-Siecle. Cornell
Series in the History of Psychiatry, edited by Sander L. Gilman and George J.
Makari. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. x + 224.
Spurlock, John C, and Cynthia A. Magistro. New and Improved: The Transforma-
tion of American Women's Emotional Culture. The History of the Emotions
series. New York: New York University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii + 213.
Ullman, Sharon R. Sex Seen: The Emergence of Modern Sexuality in America. Berke?
ley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. Pp. xi + 176.
Vargo, Marc E. Acts of Disclosure: The Coming-Out Process of Contemporary Gay
Men. Haworth Gay and Lesbian Studies, edited by John P. De Cecco. New
York: Harrington Park Press, 1998. Pp. xviii + 164.
Weston, Kath. Longslowburn: Sexuality and Social Science. New York: Routiedge,
1998. Pp. 265.
Weeks, Jeffrey, and Kevin Porter, eds. Between the Acts: Lives of Homosexual Men,
1885-1967. 2d ed. London: Rivers Oram Press, 1998. Pp. xiii + 190.
Yokota-Murakami, Takayuki. Don Juan East/West: On the Problematics of Com?
parative Literature. The Margins of Literature series, edited by Mihai I. Spariosu.
Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998. Pp. xiv + 226.
Zita, Jacquelyn N. Body Talk: Philosophical Reflections on Sex and Gender. Between
Men?Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies, edited by Lillian Faderman
and Larry Gross. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. Pp. xi + 298.

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