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{"title":"Predatory Colonialism: Indigenous Women and the Violence of Sexual Objectification in the United States","authors":"G. Smithers","doi":"10.7560/jhs30204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/jhs30204","url":null,"abstract":"I n S e p t e m b e r 1 9 5 4 t h e b u r l e S q u e performer known by the stage name Princess DoMay told a reporter from the Columbus Citizen newspaper that “I’m a full-blooded halfbreed.” DoMay’s tongue-in-cheek declaration was equal parts sales pitch and cultural appropriation, but at the height of the Cold War no one seemed to care. Men, mostly white men, kept turning up at her shows and buying the magazines in which she appeared, always in provocative poses. DoMay’s persona, contrived with her manager and husband, Doug Bonde, was a financially profitable fraud. She knew how to capitalize on racial and sexual stereotypes, parlaying her white privilege into a curated public persona as a racially exotic and sexually accessible Cherokee woman. How did DoMay, and scores of other white women, get away with this fraud? What historical damage did it perpetuate? And how can an Indigenous feminist reading of the past illuminate paths toward sexual sovereignty and empowered women and girls within nurturing communities? This article addresses these questions by focusing on “redface” performers in twentieth-century burlesque and evaluating how Playboy magazine perpetuated predatory representations of women claiming to have Indigenous ancestry. Engaging in this type of historical analysis is traumatic and can be triggering","PeriodicalId":45704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Sexuality","volume":"30 1","pages":"253 - 278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42298721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"\"She Will Eat Your Shirt\": Foreign Migrant Women as Brothel Keepers in Port Said and along the Suez Canal, 1880–1914","authors":"L. Carminati","doi":"10.7560/jhs30201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/jhs30201","url":null,"abstract":"“D e p o l i c e n o t h i n g t o m e . . . . My consul my policeman and judge, too.” Thus did a tall, dark woman of undetermined nationality, wrapped in a spangled red gown of some filmy material explain her business as a brothel keeper in early twentieth-century Port Said. “My consul good honest gentleman,” she continued in broken English. “He no going close house and stop woman make living.” Like her, hundreds of foreign women of Austrian, Russian, Greek, French, or other descent had set up prostitution ventures in late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Egypt. According to William N. Willis, the author of several polemical works on the subject of the so-called “white slave trade” (the international hysteria around the specter of the abduction and exploitation of white women in non-European contexts), these women had a keen eye to their business and the safety thereof, nurtured faith in the diplomats who had been dispatched in Egypt as their consular representatives, and defied attempts by the Egyptian government to interfere with their trade. Willis disparagingly described foreign brothel keepers as coarse, bold, and embellished harpies with mercenary souls and plump red hands.1 Some of the women in the","PeriodicalId":45704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Sexuality","volume":"30 1","pages":"161 - 194"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46740078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Queer Intimacies in Goscelin of St. Bertin's Liber confortatorius (ca. 1080–1082)","authors":"S. Klein, Brian Pietras","doi":"10.7560/jhs30205","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/jhs30205","url":null,"abstract":"I n t h e P r o l o g u e t o h I s v e r y long and strange letter, the Liber confortatorius, Goscelin of St. Bertin warns away licentious readers. After insisting that the letter contains only “virginal simplicity and pure love,”1 Goscelin’s language turns apotropaic: “May the whisperer of scandal, the lecherous eye, the pointing finger, the spewer of hot air, and the dirty snickerer be far from this pure encounter.”2 He had good reason to worry. Despite their ostensibly private nature, medieval letters were in fact highly public documents, often reaching audiences far larger than the individual","PeriodicalId":45704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Sexuality","volume":"30 1","pages":"279 - 309"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45263385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Erotic Revolution? Pornography in the Russian Empire, 1905–1914","authors":"Siobhán Hearne","doi":"10.7560/jhs30202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/jhs30202","url":null,"abstract":"I n M a y 1911 F r I d r I c h L I b L I k , a fifty-one-year-old bookshop owner living in Iur’ev (now Tartu, Estonia), stood trial for selling pornographic postcards.1 Two students alleged that Liblik kept postcards with “seductive images” in a special box in his bookshop. On the basis of their testimony and the discovery of eleven of the offending postcards, Liblik was fined fifteen rubles and required to serve a week’s prison sentence. The production of “obscene” literary or artistic works “with the goal of corrupting morals, or which are obviously opposed to morality and decency” had been an offense under the Russian Empire’s criminal code since 1845.2 Under Article 1001, individuals who produced and disseminated material with the potential to “corrupt morals” faced a maximum fine of 500 rubles and up to three months’ imprisonment. Censorship committees were responsible for deciding what exactly constituted an illegal image, guided by this vague definition of obscenity as material intent on bringing about moral decline. Overburdened officials working within the tsarist bureaucracy were tasked with confiscating illegal images and bringing the producers and distributors to justice. This article examines the history of pornography in the Russian Empire between 1905 and 1914 with a particular focus on distributors, publishers, and the imperial police. The article has two principal arguments. First, I will demonstrate that reactions to pornography signaled unease with the empire’s accelerated path toward “modernity,” broadly defined as a period of industrialization, urbanization, consumerism, and the development of","PeriodicalId":45704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Sexuality","volume":"30 1","pages":"195 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43765884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bubis behind Bars: Seeing Queer Histories in Postwar Germany through the Prison","authors":"A. Rottmann","doi":"10.7560/jhs30203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/jhs30203","url":null,"abstract":"I n a 2016 o r a l h I s t o r y I n t e r v I e w conducted for the Archiv der anderen Erinnerungen (Archive of Other Memories), East Berlin dog groomer Rita “Tommy” Thomas describes her time in the East Berlin women’s prison at Barnimstraße, just minutes from Alexanderplatz, where she served ten months for unlawful possession of a gun in the early 1950s.1 After the police found the gun at her home, she narrates,","PeriodicalId":45704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Sexuality","volume":"30 1","pages":"225 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49162447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Reviews","authors":"P. Lundberg","doi":"10.7560/jhs30206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/jhs30206","url":null,"abstract":"PHILLIP DE LACY (editor, translator and commentator), Galeni De Placitis Hippocratis et Platonis Libri IV, (Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V 4, 1, 2), Berlin, DDR, Akademie Verlag, 1978, 8vo, pp. 359, 98M. Reviewed by Vivian Nutton, M. A., Ph.D., Wellcome Institutefor the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Road, London NW) 2BP. With this publication, Professor De Lacy, Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University ofPennsylvania, has brought forth the first fruits ofmany years of scholarly labour and more than fulfilled our hopes of its high quality. An important work of Galen has now at last received an edition worthy of its merits. The overall plan of this edition is that the first two volumes contain the text and English translation, the last two a detailed commentary. Volume I, which begins with a long introduction on manuscripts, editions, the date and plan of PHP and on Galenic stylistics, continues with an edition of the Greek text of Books 1 to 5, a subordinate apparatus of variant readings and testimonia, and a facing translation. This translation , the first into a modern European language, reads fluently; and the text, which uses for the first time the oldest surviving MS., Berlin, Hamilton 270, as well as evidence from the church father Nemesius of Emesa and from the Arabs, is an immense improvement over the 1874 edition of von Muller. It is appropriate here to note the major contribution made to the text by Benedict Einarson, who, alas, did not live to see it in print: De Lacy's edition will stand as a fitting memorial to the selflessness of his friend. The collations of the various MSS. are accurate (I observe two minor errors: 78.21 Caius in mg.; inciderit Caius in versione: 78.23 add. Caius in mg.), the printing impeccable, and only the binding, which, in the reviewer's copy, was not properly stuck down, failed to live up to the high standards we have come to expect of Dr. Kollesch and her staff of the Corpus Medicorum in Berlin. 'On the opinions of Plato and Hippocrates' (PHP) is a rambling work, full of digressions, difficult to analyse, yet one of the most important in the Galenic corpus, for a variety of reasons. In the first place, it is an attempt to solve scientifically problems in human physiology and to draw \"moral\" or \"philosophical\" consequences from them: it is a philosophical meditation on the facts revealed elsewhere in Anatomical procedures. Although Galen's self-appointed task, to reconcile Plato's views on the tripartite soul with those of Hippocrates on the powers that control animal activity, seems to us essentially misguided and Galen himself later rejected some of his Hippocratic evidence as spurious -, he was trying to bring scientific method into an area distinguished, so he alleged, only by modern philosophical madness. A lack of logic, a failure to appreciate the facts of life, and an uncritical adherence to the views of one's school, especially the Stoic, are here vigorously attacked and disproved by better l","PeriodicalId":45704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Sexuality","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42553042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sexuality in Translation: Anne Lister and the Ancients","authors":"Christine Roulston","doi":"10.7560/JHS30105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/JHS30105","url":null,"abstract":"A n n e L i s t e r , t h e n o w f A m o u s early nineteenth-century Yorkshire diarist who candidly recorded her romantic relationships and affairs with women over the course of three decades, has become a touchstone for queer and lesbian history. In terms of both scholarly and popular culture, Lister’s diary has been read as a unique document that has not only disproved what Terry Castle has called the “no-lesbians-before-1900” theory but also revealed the autonomy and agency of women with regard to questions of sexuality and desire.1 While Lister has been on the scholarly radar since 1988, thanks to Helena Whitbread’s publication of the first diary extracts, I Know My Own Heart, the past decade has seen a flurry of mainstream interest in Lister that includes a 2010 BBC docudrama, The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, with its accompanying documentary, The Real Anne Lister, and Sally Wainwright’s BBC-HBO series, Gentleman Jack (2019), based on Lister’s courtship of and union to Ann Walker. Two biographies have been published in recent years: Anne Choma’s accompaniment to Wainwright’s series, Gentleman Jack: The Real Anne Lister (2019), and Angela Steidele’s biography, Gentleman Jack: A Biography of Anne Lister, translated from the German in 2019.2 In 2017 a historical plaque was affixed to the Holy Trinity Church in York, where Lister and Walker shared a sacrament to celebrate their union, and the Lister diaries have been added to the UNESCO “Memory of the World” register. After 150 years of being","PeriodicalId":45704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Sexuality","volume":"30 1","pages":"112 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46406723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Writing a Sexual Revolution: Contraception, Bodily Autonomy, and the Women's Pages in Irish National Newspapers, 1935–1979","authors":"M. O'Brien","doi":"10.7560/JHS30104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/JHS30104","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Sexuality","volume":"30 1","pages":"111 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41677955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond the Depathologization of Homosexuality: Reframing Evelyn Hooker as a Boundary Shifter in Twentieth-Century US Sex Research","authors":"Stephen Molldrem","doi":"10.7560/JHS30103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/JHS30103","url":null,"abstract":"E v E l y n H o o k E r (1907–96 ) wa s a psychologist best known for a 1957 paper that showed no statistically significant differences between what she characterized as the “adjustment” of thirty homosexual men and thirty heterosexual men drawn from nonclinical samples who “on the surface at least, seemed to have average adjustment.”1 That landmark study, titled “The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual” and published in the Journal of Projective Techniques, played a key role in laying the foundation for the removal of homosexuality from the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) in 1973.2","PeriodicalId":45704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Sexuality","volume":"30 1","pages":"48 - 91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45119352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Amateur Sexology: Gershon Legman and US Sexual History","authors":"Nina Attwood, B. Reay","doi":"10.7560/JHS30101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/JHS30101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45704,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the History of Sexuality","volume":"30 1","pages":"1 - 22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44954675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}