Recently added articles from Journal of the History of Sexuality:
Editor's note: Mathew Kuefler.(Editorial)
Sep 01, 2008; ... With this, the final issue of volume 17, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to all of the scholars worldwide who have acted as reviewers of books and essays over the past year. I depend so much on the generosity of others who must take time from busy professional and personal ...
Illegal sexual behavior in late medieval Norway as testified in supplications to the pope.(Report)
Sep 01, 2008; ... On 22 MARCH 1476 THE REGENT of the office of the Apostolic Penitentiary absolved and dispensed a young Norwegian man, Svein Igulsson, who was domiciled in the city of Stavanger, located on the southwestern coast of the country. (1) Svein's cause had been brought to Rome because he had ...
Producing patriarchy: male sodomy and gender in early modern Spain.
Sep 01, 2008; ... THE RECENT SHIFT IN THE HISTORY of homosexuality from an essentialist-constructionist debate that sought to find the historical origins of a gay identity into a field dominated by queer studies--an amalgam of theoretical positions that tend to stress the importance of difference as a tool ...
Women's bodies, demography, and public health: abortion policy and perspectives in the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century.
Sep 01, 2008; ... ACCORDING TO MICHEL FOUCAULT, discipline in modern times means "a policy of coercions that act upon the body, a calculated manipulation of its elements, its gestures, its behavior." He argued that discipline is a technique of political domination intended to make the human body useful and ...
Pathologizing leaky male bodies: spermatorrhea in nineteenth-century british medicine and popular anatomical museums.(Report)
Sep 01, 2008; ... DR. KAHN's Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage, in its forty-seventh edition in 1863, follows the convention of many nineteenth-century popular medical texts in including letters from a number of his patients describing the disorders from which they were suffering. He cites the ...