HISTSEX ARCHIVES: JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1999
© Lesley Hall and list contributors
From: Franz.Eder@univie.ac.at
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 15:56:12 +0000
Subject: about my work
My work and my research interests:
I've published about 20 articles on the history of sexuality
especially in Austria and Germany and a book on gender specific labour
distribution in the 17th and 18th centuries (Geschlechterproportion
und Arbeitsorganisation im Land Salzburg 17.-19. Jahrhundert =Sozial-
und wirtschaftshistorische Studien 20, Geschichte und
Politk/Oldenbourg1990). Editor of two special issues of the Austrian
Journal for History (Oesterreichische Zeitschrift fuer
Geschichtswissenschaften) on sexuality (with Gert Hekma and Harry
Oosterhuis issue 98/3 on the history of homosexualites and 94/3 on
general questions of the history of sexuality); also co-editor of the
two volumes on Sexual Cultures in Europe (with Lesley Hall and Gert
Hekma) which will appear from Manchester UP this spring. I am working
on a book on Social and Cultural History of Sexuality in German
Speaking Countries, 1700-1945. Editor also of an article collection on
European and Asian Sex in history (with Sabine Fruestueck), which will
be published in autumn. I am interested in theory of sexuality and in
the history of sexuality and sexual culture in the 18th, 19th and 20th
centuries, especially in Central Europe.
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Franz X. Eder
Institute for Economic and Social History
University of Vienna
Dr. Karl Lueger-Ring 1
A-1010 Vienna
Telefon: +43-1-4277-41321 or -41301
E-Mail: franz.eder@univie.ac.at
Fax: +43-1-4277-9413
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From: Franz.Eder@univie.ac.at
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 11:55:06 +0000
Subject: OEZG issue on homosexualities
Dear colleagues
The OEZG (Austrian Journal for History) has published an issue on the
HISTORY OF HOMOSEXUALITIES. You will find the table of contents, the
editorial and the English abstracts under
http://www.univie.ac.at/Wirtschaftsgeschichte/OEZG/OEZG983.html
Also visit our home page
http://www.univie.ac.at/Wirtschaftsgeschichte/OEZG/
Sincerely yours
Franz X. Eder
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Franz X. Eder
Institute for Economic and Social History
University of Vienna
Dr. Karl Lueger-Ring 1
A-1010 Vienna
Telefon: +43-1-4277-41321 or -41301
E-Mail: franz.eder@univie.ac.at
Fax: +43-1-4277-9413
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From: The Fawcett Library <fawcett@lgu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Introductions
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 09:34:07 +0000 (GMT)
Introducing myself:
I'm David Doughan, and have worked at The Fawcett Library
(on its way to becoming the National Library of Women)
since 1977. This has meant me coming into contact with
lots and lots of writing on sexuality (especially in the
Josephine Butler Society Library), and with researchers in
this area (e.g. L. Hall, L. Bland, S. Jeffreys ...). I
think a bit of knowledge amy have rubbed off. However, I
haven't published in this field - my main areas of interest
in the past have been feminist periodicals and the
inter-war women's movement in Britain; currently I seem to
have been spending most of my non-library work time on New
DNB entries (including one for the redoutable R. Frances
Swiney).
David Doughan, Reference Librarian
The Fawcett Library (The National Library of Women)
fawcett@lgu.ac.uk
http://www.lgu.ac.uk/fawcett/main.htm
Phone: 0171 320 1189
Fax: 0171 320 1188
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From: Histsex:For historians of sexuality <histsex-owner@listbot.com>
To: Histsex:For historians of sexuality <histsex@listbot.com>
Subject: Introductions
In order to start things moving on this list, I thought it might be a nice
idea to invite people to post brief introductions about themselves, what
they are working on, their general areas of interest within history of
sexuality, and any other pertinent information.
So to start off: as you may already know, I'm an archivist at the Wellcome
Institute for the History of Medicine in London (and also an Honorary
Lecturer at University College London). I've published 2 books, _Hidden
Anxieties: Male Sexuality 1900-1950_ (Polity Press, 1991) and (with Roy
Porter) _The Facts of Life: the creation of sexual knowledge in Britain,
1650-1950_ (Yale UP 1995), and numerous articles and chapters on birth
control, STDs, sexology, heterosexual relations, Marie Stopes, Stella
Browne, etc. 2 co-edited volumes on _Sexual Cultures in Europe_ (with
Franz Eder and Gert Hekma) are due to appear from Manchester UP this
spring. I'm currently working on a textbook 'Sex, gender and social change
in Britain since 1880', a co-edited volume (with Roger Davidson) on
venereal diseases in their social context in Europe since 1870, and a
biography of feminist socialist sex radical Stella Browne (1880-1955). I'm
interested in most aspects of history of sexuality and sexual culture in
the C19th and C20th in particular, especially in Britain.
Lesley
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
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To: Histsex:For historians of sexuality <histsex@listbot.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:49:33 +0000
From: Ivan Crozier <s9801550@pop3.unsw.edu.au>
Introduction
Hello, I am Ivan Crozier, from the University of New South Wales,
Sydney. I am currently finishing my Ph.D in the School of Science and
Technology Studies (I am trained as an historian of science, but am
interested in the history of medicine). This thesis is called
"Writing a book about sex: Havelock Ellis and the medical construction
of homosexuality in England, 1850-1900," which, as the name gives
away, is concerned with how Ellis could get into a position to write
_Sexual Inversion_ with John Addington Symonds in 1897. It also
considers English and Continental medical writing about homosexualtiy
and the sexual instinct in an effort to contextualise Ellis.
My other research interests have been concerned with William Acton
(I have a paper forthcoming in the Journal of Victorian Culture); the
use of medical evidence in Victorian England's most famous sodomy
trial, R. v. Boulton and Park, 1871 (with Gary Edmond, Law, Cambridge,
about to be submitted to _Law and Critique_, I think?); Ellis' other
writing on sex ("Havelock Ellis, Eonism, and the patients' discourse;
or, writing a text about sex," _History of Psychiatry_, forthcoming,
someday); and other papers which are in the throws of being published
(on medical writing on homosexuality and its relationship with the law
in England, 1850-1900; on Freud v. Ellis on homosexuality; on Acton
and child sexuality; on Ellis as an historian of sexuality; and on the
professionalisation of sexology in England in the 1890s, or why Ellis'
books were well reviewed and Carpenter's were not--being given at the
Social History of Medicine Conference, Glasgow, July, 1999). I also
*like* reviewing books, which may be of interest to any editors out
there! (see my reviews of Jones' Kinsey Biog, History of Science,
1998; Spongberg's _Feminizing Venereal Disease_, _Metascience_,
fotrthcoming; Rosario (ed.) _Science and Homosexualities_, _Medical
History_, forthcoming)
Apart from this work, I also teach in the history and sociology of
science at various universities around Sydney (UNSW, Wollongong and
Sydney Uni). The next aim is to get out of Sydney and into England:
any suggestions welcome! After all, it is about 25 degrees, raining,
and a quarter to nine in the morning as I write this.
Cheers, Ivan
Ivan Crozier,
School of STS,
UNSW, Sydney, 2052
Australia
email: i.crozier@unsw.edu.au
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From: The Fawcett Library <fawcett@lgu.ac.uk>
To: Histsex: ;
Subject: Urnings
A piece of frivolity that may not be known to *everyone* on
this list: it's from the review of _The Intermediate Sex_,
published in the British Medical Journal 26 June, 1909:
THE URANIAN
The Urning and the Carpenter
Were sitting hand in hand;
They wept because Homogeny
Is generally banned;
"If prejudice were swept away,"
they said, "it would be grand!"
"If to abnormal practices
We publicly adhere,
Do you suppose," The Urning sighed,
"The Law might interfere?"
"I dread it," cried the Carpenter,
And shed a sterile tear.
Drawn to my attention by Lorraine Blair, currently working
on H. Barnett, C.R. Ashbee, and various Toynbeeasts.
David Doughan, Reference Librarian
The Fawcett Library (The National Library of Women)
fawcett@lgu.ac.uk
http://www.lgu.ac.uk/fawcett/main.htm
Phone: 0171 320 1189
Fax: 0171 320 1188
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17:23:12 +0000
From: "Sam Pryke" <PRYKES@hope.ac.uk>
To: <histsex-owner@listbot.com>
Subject: Re: Introductions
Re.: introductions
Hi, I am Sam Pryke and I am a lecturer in Sociology at Liverpool Hope =
University College. I have come to the study of sexuality from the angle =
of nationalism which is my main academic interest . I wrote an PhD thesis =
on the relationship between the two things which I received from Manchester=
University in 1996. Since then I have had an article published on the =
general issues in a journal called Nations and Nationalism, and a couple =
of articles taken from my PhD study on the early British Boy Scouts =
Movement: in the last Social History and Gender and History forthcoming. =
I am currently trying to write the definitive book (always a very bad idea =
I am sure!) on this poorly understood and still under researched subject =
-- nationalism and sexuality --, but constantly keep coming across leads =
that appear to promise but never really seem to go anywhere very much. =
The recent angle I have been trying to think through is the church/nation/s=
exuality relationship. Despite all the work on sexuality over the last 25 =
years, it always surprises me what gaps there still seem to be. Anyway, =
as ever I welcome any thoughts, suggestions.=20
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To: Histsex:For historians of sexuality <histsex@listbot.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:54:16 -0800 (PST)
From: Philippa Levine <philippa@almaak.usc.edu>
Subject: introductions
Hello All:
I always find these member introductions very awkward, and confess that
on other lists I have lurked long and quietly rather than offer an
introduction; time to break a bad habit!
My name is Philippa Levine, and I teach history at the University of
Southern California in Los Angeles. My interest in the history of
sexuality is focused, in particular, on sexually transmitted diseases and
prostitution, and I'm completing an absurdly long book mss. on said topics
in a British colonial context. Over the past few years, I've published a
number of articles in that field (Journal of History of Sexuality,
Positions, Journal of Women's History, Journal of Asian Studies, Social
History, Journal of Modern History, various other locations), although
this is certainly not where I began my academic career.
I became interested in these issues well over a decade ago, partly as a
result of an earlier project on Victorian feminist activism, in which
opposition to the Contagious Diseases Acts was such a marked feature. When
I left my native Britain in the mid-80s, and began what turned into a trek
of British colonies and ex-colonies, I became increasingly interested in
the politics of colonialism, and of race. I was lucky enough, when I first
moved to the States, to land a consultancy on contemporary prostitution
which cemented my dual interest in race and sex, and since this was right
at the moment AIDS was taking off as a policy concern, I threw in disease
for good measure. My current project is the "marriage" of these various
interests.
I've taken these interests to heart in my teaching, offering courses in
historicising race and sex, in understanding medical attitudes to
sexuality and so on.
Can't think of anything else pertinent, so I will end there, with a thanks
to Lesley for bringing us together in this forum.
Philippa Levine
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To: Histsex:For historians of sexuality <histsex@listbot.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 17:46:01 -0800
From: Lorraine Blair <lablair@pacbell.net>
Hello!
I'm Lorraine Blair, researcher, writer and nearing-the-finish Ph.D.
student at the University of Portsmouth (UK)...who commutes from
Southern California and is therefore enormously grateful for e-mail and
fax machines to make some sense out of this craziness!
I began my interest in marital role structure during my master's studies
at Cal. State U. Fullerton
( where I have since presented many workshops and seminars at the
Women's Center) My work expanded to England in 1990, where I became
closely associated with Toynbee Hall. I have presented some of my
material on Henrietta Barnett on a Woman's Hour (BBC Radio 4) programme
in London; have written entries for both Henriietta and Samuel Barnett
in Celebrating the Saints (Canterbury Press, 1998) and have a
forthcoming chapter on early Toynbee Hall in a book on "Settlements" to
be published by the University of Durham. I am also a member of the
National League of American Pen Women...membership granted because of
work in the States.
My Ph.D. thesis examines the marriages of early "Toynbeeasts" (term used
by Virginia Woolf in reference to C.R.Ashbee) with some Carpenterian
influence. That's where the sexual history part blossoms.!
I will end with a query for the list; influenced by the somewhat strong
sexual aspects of the material in question. There are several
organizations very interested in publishing the biographical part of my
Ph.D. thesis (which they have read) in a popular form. My supervisor is
encouraging me in the hope of publishing the entire academic piece. Has
anyone had experience with doing both on the same piece of work?? Any
off-list suggestions will be appreciated!
Sincerely,
Lorraine Blair
E-mail:lablair@pacbell.net
Phone or Fax: (714) 518-2608
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To: Histsex:
From: David Stewart <stewartd@email.uah.edu>
Subject: Introduction
I am an art historian working on the Victorian painter, George Frederic
Watts. At the moment I'm particularly interested in his connections with the
women's suffrage movement, his depictions of prostitution, and his
representations of the New Woman. Of particular concern to me are issues
related to the Contagious Diseases Acts, the purity movement, and other
attempts to regulate sexuality in England from the 1840's through Watts's
death in 1904.
David Stewart
Department of Art and Art History
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville, AL 35899
256-890-6114
stewartd@email.uah.edu
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Subject: RE: Introductions
Hello, I am Gail Savage, and I am currently teaching in the History
Department at St. Mary's College of Maryland. I have developed an interest in
the history of sexuality through my research on divorce and divorce law
reform. Since divorce, both in practice and in theory, inevitably involves
the tensions between sexual behavior and sexual mores, I have found myself
more and more intrigued by the ways in which sexuality and sexual values are
deployed in legal and political argument. In the manuscript on divorce in
England between 18857 and 1937, these matters will play an important role.
After finishing that project I wish to pursue research on the interplay
between social reform movements on the one hand and scientific/medical
thinking about sexuality on the other. So far, I have published several
articles on divorce (Historical Journal, Journal of Social History, Russell,
Journal of British Studies, Victorian Studies) and hope to have a completed
manuscript in hand in the next 18 months.
Gail Savage
History Department
St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Mary's City, MD, USA, 20686
glsavage@osprey.smcm.edu
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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 20:55:01 EST
I am Jim Miller. I am an independent scholar of Biblical and Classical
literature, and lately I have been publishing on sexual issues. In print are
a pair of papers on Romans 1:26-27 (Novum Testamentum 37:1-11; J of the
American Academy of Religion 65:861-866). Other papers in press are on sexual
taboos in Genesis, semen in Lev 18, and pederasty and the centurion's servant.
Lately I have been investigating issues relating to abortion and contraception
in the ancient literature and would appreciate any pointers. I am also
interested in treatments of semen in early Hellenic literature with possible
connections to Hittite literature.
Jim Miller
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Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 20:07:53 -0700 (MST)
From: Tim Hodgdon <Tim.Hodgdon@asu.edu>
Subject: Introduction
I am a Ph.D. candidate in modern United States history at Arizona State
University. At present, I am putting the finishing touches on an article
outlining Mexican feminists' selective adaptation of U.S.
radical-feminist theory and practice on issues of sexual violence and
the role of sexuality in the social construction of male supremacy
during the 1970s and 1980s. My dissertation will inquire into the
construction of masculinity in the hippie counterculture of the 1960s
and 1970s, with a particular emphasis on hip constructions of
"liberated" sexuality as foundational to hip gendered practice.
My interest in the connection between sexuality and gender, and
sexuality as a subject of historical inquiry, was first piqued when, in
1983, I worked as clerical support staff at the University of Minnesota
Law School during the time when Catharine A. MacKinnon and Andrea
Dworkin advanced their theories regarding the connection between sexual
objectification and male supremacy. I am interested in the social and
cultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s as the context within which
historically unique forms of radical-feminist consciousness and activism
could take shape.
I look forward to the discussions on the list.
Tim Hodgdon
Ph.D. candidate
Teaching Associate
Department of History
Arizona State University
Tim.Hodgdon@asu.edu
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From: "Greg Reeder" <reeder@sirius.com>
Subject: Introduction
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 23:02:42 -0800
My name is Greg Reeder and I am a writer and contributing editor to KMT: A
Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt.
( see http://www.egyptology.com/kmt/ )
I have published articles on same-sex desire in ancient Egypt.
"Musings on the Sexual Nature of the Human-Headed Ba Bird." KMT
vol 9, no. 3 Fall 1998
"United For Eternity: Shared Mastaba of 5th Dynasty Manicurists"
KMT vol. 4 No 1. Spring 1993 p22 ff.
" Journey to the Past: Egypt and a Gay Tomb?" ADVOCATE, May 12,
1983 p25.
I also have a web site that among other things deals with same-sex desire in
ancient Egypt.
( see: http://www.egyptology.com/niankhkhnum_khnumhotep/ and
http://www.egyptology.com/extreme/ ).
I am currently working on a book project about Egyptian homosexuality's and
look forward to discussing ancient sexuality's with you all.
Greg Reeder
reeder@sirius.com
http://www.egyptology.com/
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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 02:57:14 +0000
Subject: Introduction
Hello everybody,
I am a professional translator and I have written an article on a
homosexual identity in the ancient cultures of India, Mesopotamia,
Syro-Palestine, Greece, and Rome, which I have recently posted to my web
site.
The article is called "Born Eunuchs: Homosexual Identity in the Ancient
World" and is available at http://www.well.com/user/aquarius
I am currently looking into publishing it, either in a journal or in
book form.
I too look forward to the discussions of this group.
Faris ibn Malik
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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 09:30:58 -0500
From: Cathy Moran Hajo <cathy.hajo@nyu.edu>
Subject: Introductions
I'm Cathy Moran Hajo, a part-time doctoral candidate in comparative US and
European history at New York University, and full-time assistant editor of
the Margaret Sanger Papers Project (our web site is
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger). My work with the project centers on
producing a three-volume book edition of selected Sanger letters, speeches,
articles, etc. to follow up our 101-reel microfilm collection of the papers.
I'm currently researching my dissertation topic, a comparative study of
birth control clinics in the U.S. and England, 1916-1939. I'm looking
forward to participating in this list.
--
Cathy Moran Hajo
Assistant Editor/Assistant Director
The Margaret Sanger Papers Project
Department of History
New York University
53 Washington Square South, #501
New York, NY 10012-1098
cathy.hajo@nyu.edu
(212) 998-8666
(212) 995-4017 (fax)
Visit our web site at: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger
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Date: 3 Feb 1999 18:38:22 -0000
From: Histsex:For historians of sexuality <histsex-owner@listbot.com>
Subject: Re: Server Problems
I've finally worked this out: and like the lady with 16 children, now I
know what's causing it, it shouldn't happen again.
It had to do with the different things that happen to messages if they're
sent to histsex-owner@listbot.com rather than histsex@listbot.com.
I would advise making sure messages are addressed to the latter, as
otherwise they are e-mailed to me, I have to forward them back to the
list, and then send them from the queue.
Lesley
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From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: A concise history?
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 18:16:07 -0000
I have received the following query:
I would like to incorporate good info on
the history of sexual practices --- Western culture, maybe others =
too---
as comparison to Christian sexual ethics (which will be my primary
topic). Can you suggest a concise text---mostly for my own lecture
preparation.
I can't think offhand of anything in the single volume line except =
Tannahill's _Sex in History_, 1980, and though I vaguely remember =
reading it around that time, can't recall anything about its quality =
(and these days I would doubtless be more critical anyway). Also, a lot =
of work has appeared since then.
Thoughts, anyone?
Lesley
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
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From: Ann Kendall <makend1@pop.uky.edu>
Subject: Introductions
Greetings:
I have been reading the introductions with interest and will now join in. I
am full-time staff at U of Kentucky, working in the international office,
but am also a non-trad history graduate student working on my Masters, (my
son is 19 and at Community College while living at home and I also care for
my new husband, son's fiancee, 18, my daughter, 16, 6 cats and 2 dogs). So
far everyone has been interested in sexuality itself, I prefer a different
emphasis. I have a background of working with AIDS patients, and took
medical geography courses during my recent BA. Thus my thesis work has
begun with health, then on to maternal mortality, abortion, infant death,
and life expectancy, with Russian women in the nineteenth century. I will
be adding to this work but following the trends and treatment into Soviet
times, and on to include current trends. I am unpublished though won 2
research awards as an undergrad, the first on women and agriculture in the
Sahel, the second on current Russian health problems.
I look forward to discussing some of these other issues resulting from
women's sexuality in due course.
Oh, please note that my e-mail is still calling me Kendall, but my new name
is Livingstone-Current, (the Livingstone part is mine!) so I hope that will
not confuse everyone.
Happy researching!
Ann
Ann Livingstone-Current ("`-/")_.-'"``-._
University of Kentucky . . `; -._ )-;-,_`)
Lexington, KY 40506 (v_,)' _ )`-.\ ``-'
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From: "silvana goellner" <goellner@nutecnet.com.br>
Subject: En: introduction
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:19:17 -0200
I'm Silvana Goellner, and I am currently researching and teaching in the
Physical Education Department at Rio Grande do Sul's University.(Brazil) My
field of study is History of Sport and Physical Education, more
specifically, it refers to the corporal and sportive practices, as well as
to the visibility of the feminine body in the public space at the beginning
of this century, in Brazil.
At present, I am putting the finishing touches on my Ph.D work, that tells
about the feminine body, more specifically, about sexuality, motherhood and
beauty.
Silvana V. Goellner goellner@nutecnet.com.br
Porto Alegre- Rio Grande do Sul - BRAZIL
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From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Introduction: Laura Gathagan
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 18:35:49 -0000
From: laura gathagan <lgathagan@hotmail.com>
Date: 04 February 1999 14:11
By the way of introduction I
>am a Ph D candidate working on gender (especially ideas and expressions
>of masculinity/femininity) in the 11th century, in Anglo-Norman England.
>My dissertation is a biography of Matilda of Flanders (William the
>Conqueror's queen) and is entitled "Predatory Queenship: Matilda of
>Flanders and the Conquest of England."
>>Hello to all!
>>Laura Gathagan
>CUNY-Grad Center
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Message-ID: <015801be506d$759af720$5e2e70c3@default>
From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Fw: A concise history?
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 18:34:34 -0000
From: laura gathagan <lgathagan@hotmail.com>
>>Since I'm a medievalist, what comes to mind is James Brundage's "Law,
>Sex and Christian Society in Medieval Europe." A bit of a tome, but good
>lecture prep. Also - Vern Bullough's "Sex, Society and History."
>>Good Luck!
>>Laura Gathagan
>PhD candidate - Medieval History
>CUNY - Graduate Center
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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 09:23:36 -0800
From: Heather Elizabeth Peterson <faith@greenbelt.com>
Subject: Introduction
I'm glad to hear of the formation of this list. I am a freelance history
writer and religion journalist; my one academic publication credit is an
article on Puritan meetinghouses that appeared in the Spring/Summer 1993
issue of The Unitarian Universalist Christian.
I've been interested in the history of sexuality for a number of years
now; much of my journalistic work consists of keeping track of
theological disputes over sexuality in religious communities, and this
inevitably requires me to dig into the historical roots of those
disputes. For the past year, I've been doing research on pederasty and
on pedophilia. I've yet to find any general histories of pedophilia (as
opposed to works on a specific time period), so if anyone knows of works
of that sort, I'd appreciate hearing about them.
I'm likely to be subscribing on and off of this list from time to time,
due to various commitments, but I look forward to listening in to the
conversations when I can.
Heather Peterson
--
Heather Elizabeth Peterson, Editor
Greenbelt Interfaith News - http://www.greenbelt.com/news
P.O. Box 162, Greenbelt, Maryland 20768, U.S.A.
Home Page - http://www.greenbelt.com/news/shld.htm
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Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 06:06:33
From: Vedams Books International <vedams@vedamsbooks.com>
Subject: A Question of Silence? The Sexual Economies of Modern India
Dear Colleagues:
A new book which investigates sexuality in India has just been published.
The book is entitled:
A Question of Silence? The Sexual Economies of Modern India/edited by Mary
E. John and Janaki Nair. 1998, viii, 412 p., US$23 (Free airmail delivery).
ISBN 81-86706-08-9.
The blurb says: ""Has there been a 'conspiracy of silence' regarding
sexuality
in India, be it within social movements or as a focus of scholarship? A
question of silence? interrogates this assumption in order to thematise
a crucial field. Prefaced by a detailed introductory overview, the essays
use diverse perspectives to develop an understanding of the institutions,
practices and forms of representation of sexual relations and their
boundaries of legitimacy.
"From unravelling the Kamasutra (the text) to investigating Kamasutra
(the condom) the volume includes essays on how sexuality has been framed
by the law, within social movements, or has been the site for patrolled
caste, ethnic or gender identities. Other essays analyse cinematic,
televisual and literary representations of sexuality. Taken as a whole,
this book makes room for more wide-ranging approaches for tackling the
sexual economies of desire and violence among men and women in modern India.
[Mary John is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Women's Development Studies,
New Delhi. She also wrote Discrepant Dislocations: Feminism, theory and
Postcolonial Histories.
Janaki Nair is Fellow at the Madras Institute of Development Studies. She
also wrote Women and Law in Colonial India and Miners and Millhands: Work,
Culture and Politics in Princely Mysore."
For the most comprehensive catalogue of books on Women studies please
visit http://www.vedamsbooks.com/women.htm
If you wish to acquire this title, please send me a e-mail at
vedams@vedamsbooks.com
I look forward to the pleasure of hearing from you.
Sincerely
achal madhavan
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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 14:05:37 +0100
Subject: Intro part 1
From: ralfdose@t-online.de (Ralf Dose)
Hi,
I am Ralf Dose, and for many years now, I have been the secretary general of the
Magnus Hirschfeld Society in Berlin and the managing director of its Research
Unit on the History of Sexual Science. (For more details, more messages will
follow.)
I have been active in the West German gay movement since 1972. Later I lectured
on sex education at the Free University Berlin and the University of Hannover.
As the work of the Magnus Hirschfeld Society never was adequately funded, I had
to earn my living from other sources for many years--e.g. I held different
positions an the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (Wissenschaftszentrum
Berlin fuer Sozialforschung), first as a secretary in the President's office,
then as a member of the presidential staff, and finally as a lecturer in charge
of the Centre's book series.
Intermittent periods of formal unemployment (and the limited means of the dole)
offered an opportunity to follow my own research interests volunteering at the
Magnus Hirschfeld Society and from time to time made me eligible for German
labour offices' programs for unemployed social scientists. These programs help
to develop the Research Unit's work for many years now.
My research interests are focussed on the former Berlin Institute for Sexual
Science (1919-1933), on its staff and its work, on the organisations around the
Institute, e.g. the Scientific-humanitarian Committee
(Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee, WhK), the World League for Sexual Reform
(WLSR), and, more generally, on the history of sexual science since 1900.
Especially intriguing I find the different ways to employ the (social) sciences
for the purposes of sexual emancipation movements.
My publications include many papers on the history of the German gay movement,
on the history of the Institute for Sexual Science, on the World League for
Sexual Reform etc. Most of these publications are in German; but there is a
French and a Spanish version of an early article on the Hirschfeld Institute, a
Spanish (shortened) version of a lengthy paper on Max Hodann (on his
English exile in 1935, where he tried to refound the ransacked Berlin
Institute), and an English version of a working paper on the WLSR (forthcoming
in the MUP volumes with the papers of the Amsterdam Conference on "Sexual
Cultures in Europe", edited by Lesley Hall, Gert Hekma, and Franz Eder).
As a result of our research of the last years, there is a book in preparation on
the Institute for Sexual Science (together with Rainer Herrn); and I still want
to write and publish a more detailed account of the short-lived WLSR
(1928-1935).
For those who read German, a list of publications is available on request.
In addition, I am the editor of the Magnus Hirschfeld Society's journal, the
"Mitteilungen der Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft" (issue no. 28 was published
last week, including a paper by Guenter Grau on German Physicians as executors
of Nazi Anti-homosexual Politics; and by Annett Jubara on Sexuality and Religion
in the work of the Russian symbolist writer Vasilij Rozanov).
Ralf Dose M.A.
Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft e.V.
Chodowieckistr. 41, D-10405 Berlin
x49-30-441 39 73 office phone/fax
x49-30-215 94 74 private phone
mhg@magnus.in-berlin.de office e-mail
ralfdose@t-online.de private e-mail
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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 14:05:23 +0100
Subject: intro part 3 - Hirschfeld Institute exhibition
From: ralfdose@t-online.de (Ralf Dose)
Dear Colleagues,
there is an exhibition the Magnus-Hirschfeld-Society has to offer
on Magnus Hirschfeld's former Berlin Institute for Sexual Science:
The First Institute for Sexual Science (1919-1933)
There is a German, a Spanish and an English version of the Institute exhibition;
the English one has been displayed on several occasions in different places
across the U.S. and Canada in 1997 and 1998, mostly during conferences on sex
and gender issues (Long Beach, Ca.; San Francisco, Ca.; Philadelphia, Pa., New
York, NY; Vancouver, BC.); next stop will be at the University of Pittsburgh at
the end of March, 1999.
If you would like to present this exhibition at your university/local community
center, please contact me. You could use it for teaching purposes on gender
issues or as a historical background in courses on gay/lesbian/trans history,
for example. Or use it as an extra offer to students of Weimar History. Or it
could serve as an additional attraction for a fund raising event. Or include it
into the program of your history week, or, or, or....
A word about the costs:
We ask our local partner organizations for a lending fee of DEM 1,000 (about USD
625) to cover our costs, and for the travel expenses for one person to help with
the mounting of the exhibit, to give introductory lectures etc.
A short description and some more technical details needed for a presentation
you can find below.
Ralf Dose M.A.
Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft e.V.
Chodowieckistr. 41, D-10405 Berlin
x49-30-441 39 73 office phone/fax
x49-30-215 94 74 private phone
mhg@magnus.in-berlin.de office e-mail
ralfdose@t-online.de private e-mail
Brief description of the exhibition
"The First Institute for Sexual Science"
In 1919, Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935), sexologist and sexual reformer, saw a
long-cherished dream come true: on July 6, he opened the "Institute for Sexual
Science" in Berlin-Tiergarten--the first of its kind in the world. Politically,
the Institute's emergence is to be viewed within the context of the progressive
reform movements during the Weimar period; scientifically, the bio-medical
explanations of human sexuality at the time formed the framework. The
Institute's foundation was the first attempt at establishing sexual science.
The Institute soon became a sought-after address for local and foreign
scientists, academics and politicians. For Berlin residents, it became known as
an institution providing counselling and treatment for "physical and
psychological sexual disorders" as well as, in particular, for "sexual
transitions", Hirschfeld's term for homosexuals, transvestites and
hermaphrodites. Many a writer paid the Institute a visit - Christopher Isherwood
and Alfred Döblin, for example, incorporated their impressions into their
literary works. More than 40 people worked at the Institute in many different
fields: resarch, sexual counselling, treatment of venereal diseases and public
sex education. The Institute housed the main offices of both the Scientific
Humanitarian Committee--the first homosexual organization--and the World League
for Sexual Reform.
>From the outset, the Institute was defamed and denounced as "Jewish",
"Social-Democratic" and "offensive to public morals". It was plundered and shut
down by the Nazis in 1933. In exile, Magnus Hirschfeld witnessed in a Parisian
cinema the burning of his works on Berlin's Opera Square by Fascist students.
Following an unsuccessful attempt to set up an institute for sexual science in
Paris, Hirschfeld died in Nice, France, on May 14, 1935, his birthday. The
Institute's buildings in Berlin were destroyed by bombing in 1943. Since then,
the site has been overgrown with grass.
Yet, the Nazis failed to have Hirschfeld's name and legacy erased from history.
Particularly in the United States, his scientific methods had an enduring effect
on sexology. Some of his former collaborators at the Institute, such as Walter
Grossmann and Arthur Weil, continued their work in the USA. Hirschfeld himself
had visited the States in 1892 and 1931 and impacted on local scientists. Harry
Benjamin, a friend and colleague of Hirschfeld's, further developed his studies
on transsexuality in the States. It was not until the 60s that this topic
returned to Germany. Scientists like Alfred Kinsey employed the technique of
questionnaires, developed by Hirschfeld between 1899 and 1925, during his
research into the sexual behavior of women and men in the US. The US version of
the exhibiton will, however, argue that sexual biologists today refer to a
Hirschfeld tradition in an uncritical manner.
The exhibition, produced by the Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft e.V., affords an
insight into the Institute's work with to date unpublished documents,
photographs and exhibits. It comprises 65 panels (100 cm by 70 cm each) and is
divided into five sections.
1. The "House" section illustrates the building's architectural history, its
location in Berlin-Tiergarten, its rooms and how they were used.
2. The "Persons" section introduces the Institute's staff in their working
setting as well as visitors, guests and tenants.
3. The "Theory and Practice" section--the most comprehensive part of the
exhibition--deals with the coworkers's major fields and theoretical approaches.
At the centre: Hirschfeld's theory of "sexual transitions" and its effects on
forensic medicine, sex education and counselling.
4. The "Sexual Reform" section places the Institute within the context of the
life reform movements at the beginning of the century. And it documents the
politicization by Hirschfeld of his theory to work towards having legislation on
homosexuality and abortion scrapped.
5. The final section--"Destruction and Exile"--covers the hostility toward the
Institute from 1919 onwards and the political events of 1933, including the
Institute's vandalization and the burning of Hirschfeld's books. Focus is also
on Hirschfeld's life in exile in Paris and Nice.
In addition, the exhibition boasts a reconstruction of the famous picture wall,
illustrating Hirschfeld's sex and gender theories. It was first exhibited in
Leipzig (1922) on occasion of the German Natural Scientists' and Physicians'
centenary and then in Vienna (1930) at the World League for Sexual Reform's
congress. The picture wall (2,1 m by 4,5 m) always had a prominent place in the
Institute and was used to explain sexual theories to visitors.
In 1997, the Hirschfeld exhibition was awarded one of the annual awards of the
Boulton & Park Society/Texas 'T' Party for "outstanding service in the field of
gender relations".
More details on the exhibit--and some of the pictures, too--can be
found at
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/Hirschfeld (Thanks to Claudia Wrede!)
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Date: 5 Feb 1999 15:22:44 -0000
Subject: Ralf Dose Intro 2: Magnus Hirschfeld Society Part 1
Dear Colleagues,
For those of you who are not familiar with the Magnus Hirschfeld
Society and its work, I add here a copy of our little English folder with
some additions about publications.
There will be a third message giving details of an exhibition we
have prepared. It is available for institutions and organisations
interested in
the history of sexual science.
Ralf Dose M.A.
Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft e.V.
Chodowieckistr. 41, D-10405 Berlin
x49-30-441 39 73 office phone/fax
x49-30-215 94 74 private phone
mhg@magnus.in-berlin.de office e-mail
ralfdose@t-online.de private e-mail
Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft e.V.
The Society was founded in 1982 in West Berlin on the occasion of
the approaching fiftieth anniversary of the destruction of the Berlin
Institute for Sexual Science. The Magnus Hirschfeld Gesellschaft sees its
tasks as the following:
- to study the history of research on sexuality and gender
(anthropology, womens' studies, etc.) and of the sexual reform movement,
as well as of related scholarly disciplines and life reform movements.
- to help establish research on sexuality and gender within
academic institutions.
In order to realize these goals, the Magnus Hirschfeld
Gesellschaft established a centre for research on the history of sexology
in 1992.
The Centre for Research on the History of Sexual Science
The Centre's work is financed by membership dues and donations as
well as funding from the Berlin local government's structural programme
for labour market policy. The latter makes it possible to employ staff
within the job creation scheme [ABM]. The Centre's collaborators also
include associated scholars, students and doctoral candidates from Germany
and abroad.
The Magnus Hirschfeld Gesellschaft's Centre for Research
cooperates with local, national and international scholarly institutions
and organizations.
We make the results of our work available to both the specialist
and broader public in the Society's Bulletin (Mitteilungen der
Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft), publications series, articles and books,
as well as in exhibitions, and lectures and seminars at universities and
adult education institutions.
The Magnus Hirschfeld Gesellschaft maintains an historical
reference library on sexology and gender studies (periodicals, pamphlets
and books) with a focus on the publications of Magnus Hirschfeld and other
members of his Institute. The Society's archive collection of photographs,
personal papers and manuscripts documents segments of the history
of sexual science.
The History of Sexology
The turn-of-the-century project of founding a science of sexuality
was preceded by a phase, beginning about 1850, in which, building on
"observations of nature", discussions of "sexual eviations" were directly
related to scientific debates about gender. At first "deviant", and then,
from 1900 on, "normal" sexualities were addressed simultaneously by
psychiatrists and the homosexual and women's emancipation movements, in
particular, but given different interpretations and political slants
by each. The term sexual science or sexology was coined around 1900, and
the first publications and lay sexual reform organizations were
established. Before the First World War a wave of foundings of competing
sexological organizations occurred in the area of conflict between sex
education and reform on the one hand and a strongly "de-politicized"
academic professionalization on the other. In 1919, after the founding of
the Weimar Republic, Magnus Hirschfeld realized his dream of opening an
Institute for Sexual Science. It served scholarly, practical, educational
and political ends. The founding of the Institute was the first, and
until after the Second World War, last, attempt at the academic
institutionalization of sexology. The Institute's staff combined sexology
and sexual politics with a scientific method of argumentation, a strategy
which, despite a plethora of actions and alliances, was to prove
unsuccessful when it came to the decriminalization of same-sex sexual
activities. As early as the mid-1920s the founding generation of
sexologists increasingly shifted their activities away from research and
towards sexual reform campaigning. This general tendency points to the
stagnation of the project of establishing sexology before the National
Socialist seizure of power. The Institute was vandalized, looted and shut
down on 6 May 1933, its staff driven into exile and parts of the extensive
library symbolically burnt on Berlin's Opernplatz. The lay and
professional associations for sexology and sexual reform either ceased
operations altogether or conformed to National Socialist gender ideology.
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Date: 5 Feb 1999 15:26:31 -0000
Subject: Ralf Dose Intro 2: Magnus Hirschfeld Society Part 2
Main Topics of Research
The Centre's work is based on research using archival, printed and
oral history sources to study the emergence and development of sexology,
gender studies and the reform related movements within their scientific,
social and cultural contexts. Our staff members' specific research
projects take place within this general framework, which encompasses
- the social, scholarly and political discussions that led to the
emergence of sexology, as well as the ways in which the subjection of
sexualities to scientific scrutiny and systematization affected the
objects of study;
- the construction of sex/gender as a prerequisite for the scholarly
preoccupation with sexualities;
- the organizational history of professional and lay sexological
associations as well as the publication history of sexological periodicals
and books and their contemporary reception;
- the reconstruction of the work of the world's first sexological
institution, the Institute for Sexual Science (1919-1933) and the
assessment of its place within scholarly and cultural history. Research
is underway on the persons who worked, stayed at and visited the
Institute, the theoretical orientations of members and their application
in scientific and political practice;
- the contributions of Magnus Hirschfeld and the Institute's staff to
the development of sexological theory and its application in scholarship,
forensic research and campaigns for sexual reform.
List of publications
(sorry, I had to take it off because the message exceeds 10K -
available upon request)
Most recent book: Verqueere Wissenschaft? Zum Verhältnis von
Sexualwissenschaft und Sexualreformbewegung in Geschichte und Gegenwart.
Ursula Ferdinand, Andreas Pretzel, Andreas Seeck (eds.). Muenster: Lit
1998, 400pp.
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From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Introduction: history of paedophilia
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:37:35 -0000
I was interested in Heather Elizabeth Peterson's comment in her introduction
>For the past year, I've been doing research on pederasty and
>on pedophilia. I've yet to find any general histories of pedophilia (as
>opposed to works on a specific time period), so if anyone knows of works
>of that sort, I'd appreciate hearing about them.
There is a book forthcoming - later this year from UCL Press London - by
Louise Jackson on child sexual abuse in C19th Britain which is a very
thorough and well-researched study.
But over a longer historical period and a wider geographical reach I
suspect that it would be quite difficult to write a history of paedophilia
due to changing definitions of childhood itself: both the actual parameters
of age and maturity used to define it, and what was considered appropriate
behaviour between adults and children. And presumably in any society in
which children were routinely performing arduous physical tasks (in
agriculture, factories, mines, etc), judged for any criminal act and
punished under the same laws as adults, and unthinkingly subjected to
corporal punishment, paedophilia would either be invisible in a context of
what we would now define as multiple forms of child abuse, or else thought
nothing of.
Or was it? I'd be interested to hear from (for example) early
modernists, medievalists, classicists who may have come across evidence for
either the actual judicial penalisation of adults having sex with children,
or social stigmatisation of same. I have a notion (which may be wrong!) that
in the marriages of very young children of the elite during the Middle Ages
in Europe for reasons of state, it was considered inappropriate to
consummate the marriage before the girl had reached puberty.
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
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From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Re: a concise history
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 18:03:26 -0000
From: sanjam ahluwalia <sanjam21@hotmail.com>
Date: 05 February 1999 00:24
Subject: Re: Fw: A concise history?
>I still need to do my introduction, but just wanted to send off this=20
>reference first. Article by Roy Porter, "History of the Body," in Peter =
>Burke(ed),_New Pespectives on Writing History_ (1992). A useful (and=20
>accessible) introduction to debates on sex and body.
>>Good luck!
>>Sanjam Ahluwalia
>Phd candidate, Department of History
>University of Cincinnati
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Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:15:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Elizabeth Sutherland <ehsuther@utkux.utcc.utk.edu>
Subject: introduction
Hello,
I'm a Classicist specializing in Latin poetry, recently developing an
interest in cultural constructions of gender and sexuality. Current
project (a book on the Augustan poet Horace) is mostly not concerned with
these issues, but will include at least part of a chapter on how Horace's
lyric speaker negotiates his (probably compromised) position with respect
to Roman ideals of masculinity. I'll be interested in gathering ideas and
theoretical bibliography from you folks in other fields.
Elizabeth Sutherland
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
(on leave 98-99)
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From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Fw: Journal of the History of Sexuality Announcement
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 23:23:34 -0000
>The Journal of the History of Sexuality wishes to announce a number of
>significant changes. After eight years of dedicated service, Dr. John
>Fout has decided to step down as editor. The journal's new editors, Dr.
>William Bonds and Dr. Barbara Loomis, both members of the History
>Department at San Francisco State University, look forward to continuing
>the fine work of Dr. Fout. In addition to the change in editorship, the
>JHS has acquired a new publisher, the University of Texas Press. The new
>editors encourage scholars to submit articles for consideration and to act
>as book reviewers for the journal. Those interested can contact Terence
>Kissack, the journal's managing editor, through e-mail at JHS@SFSU.EDU or
>by calling 415-405-0361. Manuscripts can be sent to:
>Journal of the History of Sexuality
>c/o History Department
>San Francisco State University
>1600 Holloway Avenue
>San Francisco, CA 94132
>
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'Date: 6 Feb 1999 15:35:08 -0000
Subject: Introduction/History of Paedophilia Part 1 of 2
From: Ianthe <ianthe@duende.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Introduction: history of paedophilia
In message <01b901be513f$17be75a0$6e2e70c3@default>, Lesley Hall
<lesleyah@primex.co.uk> writes
>Histsex:For historians of sexuality -
http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
>>I was interested in Heather Elizabeth Peterson's comment in her
introduction
>>>For the past year, I've been doing research on pederasty and
>>on pedophilia. I've yet to find any general histories of pedophilia (as
>>opposed to works on a specific time period), so if anyone knows of works
>>of that sort, I'd appreciate hearing about them.
>>There is a book forthcoming - later this year from UCL Press London - by
>Louise Jackson on child sexual abuse in C19th Britain which is a very
>thorough and well-researched study.
Very interesting. Sorry the bring up a subject so early, which
has been such a "wild bull" in the china-shops of other mailing
-lists. But I think, though, that perhaps Lesley's response
casually elides "the paedophile" with "child sexual abuse".
A study of the latter is not a study of the genesis of the
former. A comprehensive and scholarly historical account of
"the paedophile" in English (and other Other) cultures is badly
needed, thought - in order to illuminate not only the obvious
current moral panics, and also the history of "the homosexual"/
"the sexual child" and the dialogic dance between the two within
homophobic discourses.
> But over a longer historical period and a wider geographical reach I
>suspect that it would be quite difficult to write a history of paedophilia
>due to changing definitions of childhood itself: both the actual
parameters
>of age and maturity used to define it, and what was considered appropriate
>behaviour between adults and children.
I'm interested in the construction(s) of "the paedophile" and
"paedophilia(s)" in Anglo cultures. I'm also interested in
hidden traditions of women/girl erotic relationships, especially
in relation to the 'erotic pedagogy' movements during the
early 20th Century in England and Germany.
Here's an edited version of my working biblography, plunder and
pillage at will... :)
Aristoff, N.S. Girl-Love and Girl-lust in 19th Century England.
Passion Press, New York, 1992.
Bailey, Victor. and Blackburn, Shelia.
The Punishment of Incest Act 1908 - a case study
of law creation.
CRIMINAL LAW REVIEW, 1979. pp. 708-718.
Beisel, N.
Imperiled Innocents - Anthony Comstock and
Family Reproduction in Victorian America.
Princeton University Press, 1997. 296 pp
Beckson, Karl. London in the 1890s.
London, Norton, 1991. (Especially 'Love in Earnest: the
importance of being Uranian', pp. 186 ff.)
Behlmer, George. Child Abuse and Moral Reform in
England, 1870-1908. Stanford University Press, 1982.
Bristow, E.J. Vice and Vigilance - purity movements
in Britain since 1700. Gill & Macmillian, Dublin,
1977.
Joan Jacobs Brumberg. The Body Project - An Intimate
History of American Girls. October 1998. Vintage Books.
Burnett, John.
The History of Childhood.
HISTORY TODAY (SUPPLEMENT), 33 (Dec.), 1983.
Cominos, Peter.
Late-Victorian Sexual Respectability
and the Social System.
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL HISTORY,
8, 1963. pp. 18-48.
Edwards, S.H.
Pretty Babies - art, erotica, or kiddie porn ?
HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHY, vol 18, Spring 94.
pp. 38-46
Eglington, J.Z. (Psued.) Greek Love.
Oliver Layton Press, New York, 1964. 504pp.
('Comprehensive and scholarly historical study of paederasty from
ancient to modern times. Very good on 19th century literature)
Fishman, Stirling.
The History of Childhood Sexuality.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HISTORY (UK),
Vol.17, No.2, 1982. pp. 269-283.
Fraser, Morris. The Death of Narcissus. London.
Secker and Warburg, 1976. (Psychological survey
of paedophilia in English literature)
Estelle B. Freedman. "Uncontrolled Desires": The
Response to the Sexual Psychopath, 1920-1960.
The Journal of American History, 74, June 1987:
pp. 83-106.
Geraci, Joseph. (Ed.) Dares to Speak - historical
and contemporary perspectives on boy-love. Gay
Men's Press. London, 1997.
Gibson, Ian. The English Vice -
beatings, sex and shame in Victorian
England and after. London, Duckworth, 1978.
Gillis, John Randall. Youth and
History - tradition and change in
European age relations, 1770-present.
Academic Press, 1974.
(Some useful references to changes in age
of puberty)
Gorham, D.
The 'maiden tribute of modern
Babylon' re-examined - child prostitution
and the idea of childhood in late
Victorian England.
VICTORIAN STUDIES, Vol. 21, 1978.
pp. 353-379
Gorham, Deborah. The Victorian Girl and the
feminine ideal. London, Croom Helm, 1982.
Hare, E.H.
Masturbatory Insanity - the history of an idea.
JOURNAL OF MENTAL SCIENCE, Vol.
108, 1962. pp. 1-25.
Hendrick, Harry. Images of Youth - Age, Class, and the Male Youth
Problem, 1880-1920.
Hickson, Alisdare. The Poisoned Bowl - sex, repression
and the public school system. UK, 1995.
Hilliard, David. (1982)
UnEnglish and UnManly: Anglo-Catholicism and Homosexuality.
VICTORIAN STUDIES, Vol. 25, No. 2,
Winter 1982. pp.
Hyam, Ronald. Empire and Sexuality - the British
experience. Manchester University Press.
Manchester and New York, 1990
Philip Jenkins. Moral Panic : Changing Concepts of the
Child Molester in Modern America. 1998, Yale University
Press.
Kincaid, J. R. Child-Loving; the erotic child and
Victorian culture. London. Routledge, 1993.
Mavor, Carol. 'Dream Rushes - Lewis Carroll's photographs of the
little girl'. IN: Nelson, Cladia. and Vallone, Lynne. The Girl's Own -
cultural histories of the anglo-American girl, 1830-1915. Athens and
London. University of Georgia Press, 1994. ISBN 0820316156.
(Pages 156-193. 15 illustrations - several nudes, bibliography.)
Nelson, Claudia B.
Sex and the Single Boy - ideals of manliness
and sexuality in Victorian literature for boys.
VICTORIAN STUDIES, Vol.32, No.4, 1989. pp. 525-550.
Parker, A. (Ed.) Nationalisms and Sexualities.
London, Routledge, 1992.
(Chapter 20 - Koven, Seth. 'From Rough Lads to
Hooligans - boy-life, national culture and social reform'.
pp. 365-401. Excellent!)
Platt, J.H. The Child Savers - the invention
of delinquency. Chicago, University of Chicago
Press, 1969.
Shiltz, L.G. Child sexual abuse in historical perspective.
IN: Conte, J.R. and Shore, D. (Eds.) 'Social Work and
Child Sexual Abuse'. New York. Haworth Press, 1982.
pp. 21-35.
Simpson, A.E. Vulnerability and the age of female consent
- legal innovation and its effect on prosecutions for rape
in 18th Century London. IN: Maccubbin, R.P. (Ed.) 'Tis
Nature's Fault - unauthorized sexuality during the
Enlightenment. Cambridge University Press, 1987. (pp.
181-205)
Smith, L.
Take Back Your Mink - Lewis Carroll, child
masquerade and the age-of-consent.
ART HISTORY, vol.16, Spring 1993, pp.369-385.
Bib, ill.
Smith, Timothy D'Arch. Love In Earnest;
some notes on the lives and writings of
English 'Uranian' poets from 1889 to 1930.
London. Routlege, Keegan and Paul, 1970.
Stafford, Ann. The Age-of-Consent. Hodder
and Soughton, London, 1964.
(Detailed account of the Stead era and trials.
See also Walkowitz, 1993.)
Takanishi, Ruby.
Childhood as a Social Issue - historical
roots of contemporary child advocacy movements.
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES, Vol. 34, No. 2, 1978.
pp. 8-28. (Very useful timeline included.)
Tinkler, Penny.
Constructing Girlhood: Popular Magazines for Girls Growing Up
in England 1920-1950. Taylor & Francis, London, 1995.
Townsend, Chris.
A picture of innocence.
History Today, 46 (5) May 1996, pp. 8-11, illust, ports.
Trudgill, Eric. Madonnas and Magdalens - the
origins and developments of Victorian sexual
attitudes. Heinemann. London, 1976. ('The Adorable Child'
section looks at erotic love of little girls. pp. 90-100)
Wasserman and Rosenfeld. An Overview of the History
of Child Sexual Abuse and Sigmund Freud's
Contributions. IN: O'Donohue and Geer (Eds)
The Sexual Abuse of Children: Theory and Research,
Vol I. USA, Lawrence Erlbaum Assoc, 1992.
Walkowitz, Judith. City of Dreadful Delight -
narratives of sexual danger in late Victorian
London. London, Virago, 1993.
Wallace, Jo-Ann. 'Subjects of Discipline - the child's
body in the mid-Victorian school novel.' IN: Purdy,
Anthony. (Ed.) Literature and the Body. Amsterdam.
Rodopi, 1992.
(to be continued)
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Date: 6 Feb 1999 15:36:41 -0000
Subject: Introduction/History of Paedophilia Part 2 of 2
(continued from earlier message)
The 'turn' during the 1970s and 1980s:
--------------------------------------
Jenkins, Phillip. Intimate Enemies - moral
panics in contemporary Great Britain. Aldine
De Gryter, Hawthorne NY, 1993. (Excellent on the
1980s)
O'Carroll, T. Paedophilia - The Radical Case.
Contemporary Social Issues Series, No. 12.
Peter Owen. London, 1980. [Historical material
on the late 1970s]
Tsang, D. (Ed.) The Age Taboo - gay male sexuality,
power and consent. London. Gay Men's Press, 1981.
(In USA by Alyson, Boston, 1981. Collection of
papers and articles from the 1970s)
Plummer, K. Chapter 8. The paedophile's progress; a
view from below. IN: Taylor, B. (Ed.) Perspectives
On Paedophilia. London. Batsford, 1981. ISBN 07134 37189.
Califa, Pat. Public Sex - essays on the culture of radical
sex. Cleis Press, 1994. ISBN 930416891. [Two excellent
essays on the USA in the late 1970s]
Backgrounders:
--------------
Ceri, Stephen J. and Bruck, Maggie.
Suggestibility of the Child Witness - a historical review and synthesis.
Psychological Bulletin, 113:3, (1993), pp. 403-439.
Hacking, Ian.
The Making and Moulding of Child Abuse.
Critical Inquiry, 17 (Winter 1991), pp. 252-288.
Jones, G.P.
The Study of intergenerational Intimacy in North
America: Beyond Politics and Pedophilia.
Journal of Homosexuality, Vol. 20, pp. 275-295, 1990.
Defining normal child sexuality; an anthropological approach.
Annual Review of Sex Research, 5, 1994, pp. 173-217, refs.
Evans, David. T. Sexual Citizenship - the material
construction of sexualities. London & New York.
Routledge, 1993. [ Chapter 8; 'Embryonic citizenship -
children as sexual objects and subjects'. ]
>paedophilia would either be invisible in a context of
>what we would now define as multiple forms of child abuse, or else
>thought nothing of.
Can anyone expand on data I have which mentions the dramatic drop
in the age-of-puberty across time (and its increasing equalisation
across class divisions). This drop seems to have meant that
the onset of puberty in the UK has dropped from an average 16.5
years for females and 17.5 for males in 1840, to 11.9 and 13.1
years respectively in 1993, and it is still dropping year-
on-year. Indeed a goverment report is ongoing in the UK into
this.
Hard information on the age-of-consent, its "set levels" and
formulation and enforcement in America, the UK and Europe
since 1800 would be very interesting, too. I have some data
but would welcome corraboration or correction.
Yours, "calling this an introduction" :),
--
Ianthe Duende
***
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Date: 6 Feb 1999 15:38:39 -0000
From: Histsex:For historians of sexuality <histsex-owner@listbot.com>
Subject: Journal of the History of Sexuality: Announcement
The Journal of the History of Sexuality wishes to announce a number of
significant changes. After eight years of dedicated service, Dr. John
Fout has decided to step down as editor. The journal's new editors, Dr.
William Bonds and Dr. Barbara Loomis, both members of the History
Department at San Francisco State University, look forward to continuing
the fine work of Dr. Fout. In addition to the change in editorship, the
JHS has acquired a new publisher, the University of Texas Press. The new
editors encourage scholars to submit articles for consideration and to act
as book reviewers for the journal. Those interested can contact Terence
Kissack, the journal's managing editor, through e-mail at JHS@SFSU.EDU or
by calling 415-405-0361. Manuscripts can be sent to:
Journal of the History of Sexuality
c/o History Department
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132
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Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 10:33:23 -0500
From: Bob <suannschafer@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: a concise history
Histsex:For historians of sexuality - http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
For those who need it, the precise situation is:
Burke, Peter, ed. New Perspectives on Historical Writing. University
Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991.
>I still need to do my introduction, but just wanted to send off this
>reference first. Article by Roy Porter, "History of the Body," in Peter
>Burke(ed),_New Pespectives on Writing History_ (1992). A useful (and
>accessible) introduction to debates on sex and body.
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Subject: Re: Introduction: history of paedophilia, [and another introduction]
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 12:30:25 -0800
From: "andrei-f" <andrei-f@goplay.com>
First of all I need to mention that I just joined the list, I am not
an academic but rather I am writer who specializes in popularizing
recent discoveries (as well as old truisms) in gay studies,
information that has not yet entered the public consciousness. You
will find examples of my work (interspersed with that of others) at:
http://www.androphile.org
Lesley Hall wrote: > But over a longer historical period and a
wider geographical reach I
>suspect that it would be quite difficult to write a history of
paedophilia
>due to changing definitions of childhood itself: both the actual
parameters
>of age and maturity used to define it, and what was considered
appropriate
>behaviour between adults and children. And presumably in any society
in
>which children were routinely performing arduous physical tasks (in
>agriculture, factories, mines, etc), judged for any criminal act and
>punished under the same laws as adults, and unthinkingly subjected to
>corporal punishment, paedophilia would either be invisible in a
context of
>what we would now define as multiple forms of child abuse, or else
thought
>nothing of.
> Or was it? I'd be interested to hear from (for example) early
>modernists, medievalists, classicists who may have come across
evidence for
>either the actual judicial penalisation of adults having sex with
children,
>or social stigmatisation of same. I have a notion (which may be
wrong!) that
>in the marriages of very young children of the elite during the
Middle Ages
>in Europe for reasons of state, it was considered inappropriate to
>consummate the marriage before the girl had reached puberty.
Your notion is not groundless. As a matter of fact there seemed to be
a very clear distinction between child molesting and socially
tolerated sexuality with younger people. That distinction seems to
have existed since ancient times (When Theseus seized Helen she was
only twelve, so he lodged her with his mother for two years, till she
was ready to marry). In Renaissance Florence men who molested
(sodomized) boys younger than twelve were severly punished, while
those who sodomized boys between twelve and twenty were let off
usually with a slap on the wrist (relatively speaking). [see Michael
Rocke, _Forbidden Friendships_]
A. C. Foldez
________________
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 14:37:55 -0500 (EST)
From: "David F. Greenberg" <dg4@is3.nyu.edu>
Subject: Introduction
I'm a former theoretical physicist and New Left activist turned
sociologist. I've been teaching sociology at NYU since 1973. In addition
to work in criminology, sociology of law, statistical methodology and
mathematical modeling, I've done some work relating to homosexuality - one
book and some articles:
book: THE CONSTRUCTION OF HOMOSEXUALITY (University of Chicago Press,
1988).
articles: "Christian Intolerance of Homosexuality," American Journal of
Sociology 88 (1982):515-48
"Capitalism, Bureaucracy and Male Homosexuality," Contemporary
Crises: Crime, Law and Social Policy 8 (1984):33-56.
"Why Was the Berdache Ridiculed?" Journal of Homosexuality 11
(1985):179-89.
"The Socio-Sexual Milieu of the _Love-Letters_" Journal of
Homosexuality 19 (1990):93-103.
"The Pleasures of Homosexuality," pp. 223-56 in Paul Abramson and
S. D. Pinkerton (eds.), _Sexual Nature/Sexual Culture_ (University of
Chicago Press, 1995).
"Transformations of Homosexually-Based Classifications," pp. 179-93
in Roger N. Lancaster and Micaela di Leonardo (eds.), _The
Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy (Routledge,
1997).
- David Greenberg, Sociology Department, New York, NY 10003, USA.
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Subject: Re: A concise history?
From: Gillian Rodger <grodger@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 23:59:20 +0000
I know this is a somewhat late response, but a book I use regularly for the
north American context is *Intimate Matters* by John D'Emilio and Estelle B.
Freeman. I like it because it is specifically American and very useful for
the 18th & 19th centuries as a result. A limited time coverage--colonial
period to more or less the present--but still a very good read.
Introduction to come later,
Gillian Rodger
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From: The Fawcett Library <fawcett@lgu.ac.uk>
Subject: Wolfenden
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 13:00:30 +0000 (GMT)
London-based subscribers mya be interested in this (under
the aegis of the Friends of The Fawcett Library
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PROSTITUTION 1954-1957
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Venue: London Guildhall University,Calcutta House, Old Castle Street, London, E1 7NT
Nearest Tube: Aldgate East - Toynbee Hall exit
Admission: Friends £2.00, others £3.00
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Phone: 0171 320 1189
Fax: 0171 320 1188
_________________
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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 13:56:24 -0400
From: Michael Manson <mmanson@uccb.ns.ca>
Subject: introduction
I am a new subscriber to the list. I teach Engoish literature at the
University College of Cape Breton in Sydney, Nova Scotia. While my primary
research interests are not in the history of sexuality per se, my teaching
and research inevitablytakes me into that large field. I teach courses in
the literatures of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries and a course on
feminist literary theory, so the history of sexuality is an essential
componenet of my teaching and research.
Michael Manson, English
mmanson@uccb.ns.ca
University College of Cape Breton
Box 5300
Sydney, Nova Scotia B1P 6L2
(902) 563-1244
FAX (902) 562-0119
"Stand the gaffe"
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Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 14:27:18 -0500 (EST)
From: sdinan@liu.edu (Susan E. Dinan)
Subject: Introduction
Hello,
I am an historian interested in women religious in early modern France. My
work has focused on the Daughters of Charity, who were neither nuns nor lay
women. Their sexual status was critical in forming their identity. These
were women who took annual vows of chastity and, as far as I can tell, very
rarely transgressed them. They carefully guarded their chastity, although
in rather odd ways. For example, many of the Daughters were nurses and
although they would nurse wounded soldiers, they would not assist pregnant
women.
More broadly, I am interested in integrating the history of sexuality into
my introductory western civilization courses. I think that giving students
access to the private past, as well as the public, is important in making
history more meaningful to them.
Nice to be "meeting" you all.
-Susan
Susan E.Dinan
Assistant Professor
Department of History
Long Island Unversity
720 Northern Boulevard
Brookville, NY 11548-1300
516-299-2742
516-299-3943 (fax)
______________________________________________________________________
From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Fw: Introduction: Karen Duder
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 20:40:07 -0000
>I am a doctoral candidate and part-time lecturer at the University of
>Victoria. My doctoral thesis examines lesbians' construction of their
>sexual subjectivity, and focuses on British Columbia and Ontario between
>1910 and 1965. I am also very interested in transgender and transsexual
>history. I teach a comparative history of sexuality and gender, and am
>particularly interested in discussing with list members the debates about
>sexual and gender identity, and in exchanging bibliographic information
>concerning "sexuality" and "gender" in colonial and other international
>contexts.
>
>Karen Duder
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Karen Duder Email kduder@uvic.ca
>Department of History Clearihue B228
>University of Victoria Office Ph. (250) 721-7395
>P.O. Box 3045 Fax (250) 721-8772
>Victoria, B.C. V8W 3P4 Dept. Office (250) 721-7382
>CANADA
>
>"Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer.
> There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only
> measurement relative. Relative to what is an important part of the
> question." Jeanette Winterson, _Gut Symmetries_
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
>
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Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 11:31:29 +0000
From: Rictor Norton <rictor@infopt.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Introduction
Introduction for Rictor Norton:
I wrote the pioneering historical study _Mother Clap's Molly House: The
Gay Subculture in England 1700-1830_ (Gay Men's Press, 1992). I taught
one of the earliest courses on gay and lesbian literature (Florida State
University, 1971) and co-edited one of the first all-gay issues of an
academic journal (College English, 1974). My book _The Homosexual
Literary Tradition_ (1973) was based on my Ph.D. study of homosexual
themes in English Renaissance literature. In 1973 I emigrated from
Florida to London and worked full-time at the fortnightly newspaper _Gay
News_ from 1974 to 1979. Many of my essays for _Gay Sunshine_ on gay
history and literature were reprinted in _Gay Roots_, vols. I & II (San
Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1991, 1993). My most recent books are
_The Myth of the Modern Homosexual: Queer History and the Search for
Cultural Unity_ (Cassell, 1997); the anthology _My Dear Boy: Gay Love
Letters through the Centuries_ (Gay Sunshine Press, 1998); and a
biography, _Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe_ (Leicester
University Press, 1998); and I am contributing some entries on gay
figures to the _New Dictionary of National Biography_ (Oxford University
Press). I live in London, where I research the history of gay
subcultures in Victorian England, when I am not busy editing gay and
lesbian books for Cassell Publishers and sociology/AIDS books for Taylor
& Francis (who own Routledge, UCL Press etc.) and other academic
publishers.
Information on all this -- and more! -- is on my two large Web sites:
Essays on Gay History and Literature
<http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/gayhist.htm>
The John Addington Symonds Pages
<http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/symfram1.htm>
I look forward to participating in discussions on this List.
--
Rictor Norton
mailto:rictor@infopt.demon.co.uk
http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/gayhist.htm
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Subject: Fw: Fw: Introduction: Betty Parker Duff
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 19:25:23 -0000
From: Betty Parker Duff <bduff41@MAINE.EDU>
Let me take this opportunity to introduce myself. I am a Ph.D.
candidate in the History department of the University of Maine. My
field of study concerns gender rather than sexuality but I am
starting to suspect sexuality is more an issue than I previously
thought. I am focusing on women in late 19th, early 20th centuries
in the Southern Appalachian coalfields. I am currently writing a
chapter on settlement school founders in the Kentucky mountains as
one of the outside influences on mountain women's culture.
My question concerns the nature of the relationships between women
who founded and taught in these schools. I have found a number of
references to the "intimate" relationships of women reformers and
would like to ask if anyone knows of a work that specifically
addresses this issue. I am told that the stigma concerning such
relationships, previously considered natural and normal, originated
with Freud and James. How would they have been considered in 1890?
Betty Parker Duff
University of Maine
bduff41@maine.edu
______________________________________________________________________
From: "Joyce Jones" <hoop5@email.msn.com>
Subject: Introduction
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 13:35:45 -0800
This is to introduce myself. I always say sex is my life, so was amazed to
find a list devoted to my favorite subject. I'm not an academician, rather
I work with sex and the results thereof daily as a labor and delivery nurse
in a level three teaching hospital. I've worked with a 12 year old who said
she and her boyfriend practice safe sex using a condom and don't know how
this could have happened to them; a 14 year old who gave birth to her
brother's baby and had to morn the fact that it has congenital anomalies
probably incompatible with life; a 45 year old who had quadruplets after
infertility treatment; a 35 year old giving birth to her third baby and
swearing she couldn't be pregnant--it must be a gall bladder attack; a non
English speaking gentle woman from Mexico who had to be told that she was
HIV+; a 25 year old heroin using, HIV+ prostitute giving birth to her fourth
baby and refusing to have her tubes tied because she knows a cure will be
found for AIDS and she wants more kids; repressed women so shy and ashamed
of their bodies that they won't open their legs to give birth; women who
come on to the doctor doing their vaginal exams; many, many women who have
no idea that they own their bodies and can make choices governing their
reproductive functions; women who swear birth is so painful they will die;
and a few women, like myself, who find birth literally orgasmic. I've seen
some ugly, nasty STD's; many women who spend their labor watching Jerry
Springer and his like while they are engaged in this most spiritual process;
some women whose lives are very unpleasant yet manage to have beautiful
births while others who are surrounded by their spiritual advisors and have
horrendous deliveries. I've had women having babies for gay men, gay women
having babies with each other with a little help from a friend; health care
professionals who truly believe in supporting women in their choices and an
overwhelming number of misogynist doctors and nurses who make a woman feel
like scum for daring to reproduce or who just subtly discourage her from
thinking that her body could possibly function without their intervention
and direction.
Sex is my life, and I'm glad to be on the list.
Joyce Jones
______________________________________________________________________
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 10:55:49 +0000
From: Ivan Crozier <s9801550@pop3.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: WHo wrote that letter?
Dear Historians of sexuality,
Now that many of you have admitted to knowing much about the history
of sexuality, I have a game to play. Below is a letter from the John
Addington Symonds papers at Bristol University. The letter was typed,
and not signed, but someone has added the name Horatio Brown (in
pencil). Obviously, the letter was not from Brown, for the author
asked Ellis to pass on his regards to JAS, and there is evidence to
suggest that the letter was written in 1895 or perhaps 1896. Brown
was Symonds lit. executor, and Symonds died in 1893, so Brown knew
about it. So my question is, who wrote the following letter.
Thanks for your time; I look forward to the responses.
Cheers,
Ivan
Ivan Crozier,
School of STS,
UNSW, Sydney, 2052,
Australia
email: i.crozier@unsw.edu.au
Bristol Univeristy Library, JAS papers, DM376
Hotle Bellevue,
Ibiesen,
Chur,
Grisons.
Dear Mr. Ellis,
Thank you for your letting me read the conclusion which I send back
today registered. I think that it is admirable in its calmness, its
judicial unbiased tone. And if anything can pursuade people to look
the question in the face this should.
I am especially at one with you when you suggest that from an ethical
point of view the heterosexual and the unisexual are parallel, each
being capable of exaltation and of degradation, each admitting all the
variation from a noble affection to the most trivial prostitution.
And again when you
warn those who have to deal witht he subject from an æsthetic bias to
warp their judgement.
And again when you indicate the possibility that nature--in the cases
of inverts--is deliberately sterilising.
I am much interested in your suggestion of co-education, new to me.
At first I said at once "oh! no this would make no difference" but I
don't feel so sure now as I have become accustomed to the idea.
I am struck by the large amount of recent literature (1893.94.95.)
which is appearing on the subject. That is a most helpful sign. At
the same time it is a disgrace to England--where inversion is so wide
spread--that she should be so unrepresented. The Schrenck-Notzing
cure--the shrink at nothing cure one might call it--is appalling and I
think you destroy its theory when you demonstrate that it merely ends
in making a double-barrelled sinner.
I should like to omit the passage from Symonds' "A few laws of Moses
--social abomination." You yourself feel the need of making the
statement, and it seems to me to be inspired by te pugnacious spirit
which I should like to see excluded from the controversy for the
present. "A few laws"--"the legend"--"have sufficed
totransform"--these are all phrases with an aroma of contempt for
current opinion, and are more calculated, in my view, to rouse
retaliatory animosity. Besides they break the cool, judicial unbiased
temoer of the whole Chapter.
Quite true what you said about "gross indecency." The act which
brought me into the world be certainly "grossly indecent" is [sic]
detailed in a court of law.
And finally I like the quietness and sanity of the statement as to
what you would like to see done in this difficult matter.
Best regards to Symonds. I will write soon to him.
Yours,
[Horatio Brown]
[Crozier: I do not think it was HB. See the references to the dates in
the letter, two years after JAS was dead, and certainly HB would have
known this, being his Lit Executor. This letter is a typed carbon
copy]
______________________________________________________________________
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 17:47:17 -0700 (MST)
From: Tim Hodgdon <Tim.Hodgdon@asu.edu>
Subject: Re: Introduction: Betty Parker Duff, history of lesbianism
Ms Duff
Some of the recent scholarship on sexuality and popular culture has
begun to qualify the historiographical line of reasoning to which you
refer. While certainly the emergence of "scientific" sexology
influenced popular thinking about sexual behavior, the influences now
seem to have been more the other way around--i.e., that emerging modern
sexual practices influenced sexology considerably more than sexology did
modern sexual values and practices. See, for example, Sharon R. Ullman,
*Sex Seen: The Emergence of Modern Sexuality in America (Berkeley: Univ.
of Calif. Press, 1997). You might also look at two other works. The
first is not directly related to lesbianism, but furthers the new line
of historical inquiry I'm talking about: George Chauncey, *Gay New York:
Gender, Urban Culture, and the Makings of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940*
(New York: Basic Books, 1994). Also, check D'Emilio and Freedman's now
somewhat dated but still very useful *Intimate Matters,* to see what the
note references might yield.
I'm from Maine, so I hope that Ms Duff will give my regards to Orono.
Tim Hodgdon
Ph.D. candidate
Teaching Associate
Department of History
Arizona State University
Tim.Hodgdon@asu.edu
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Lesley Hall wrote:
> Histsex:For historians of sexuality - http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
> > From: Betty Parker Duff <bduff41@MAINE.EDU>
> > > Let me take this opportunity to introduce myself. I am a Ph.D.
> candidate in the History department of the University of Maine. My
> field of study concerns gender rather than sexuality but I am
> starting to suspect sexuality is more an issue than I previously
> thought. I am focusing on women in late 19th, early 20th centuries
> in the Southern Appalachian coalfields. I am currently writing a
> chapter on settlement school founders in the Kentucky mountains as
> one of the outside influences on mountain women's culture.
> > My question concerns the nature of the relationships between women
> who founded and taught in these schools. I have found a number of
> references to the "intimate" relationships of women reformers and
> would like to ask if anyone knows of a work that specifically
> addresses this issue. I am told that the stigma concerning such
> relationships, previously considered natural and normal, originated
> with Freud and James. How would they have been considered in 1890?
> > > Betty Parker Duff
> University of Maine
> bduff41@maine.edu
> >______________________________________________________________________
From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Fw: Betty Parker Duff's query on women's intimate relationships
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 18:21:27 -0000
>If you haven't already done so, take a look a Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, "the
Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth
Century America," Signs, I (1975), 1-29. See also Chapter one of Lillian
Faderman's Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers. Hope this helps.
>>Nancy C. Unger
>Department of History
>Santa Clara University
>500 El Camino Real
>Santa Clara, CA 95030-0285
>(408) 554-6889
>nunger@scu.edu
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From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Fw: Introduction for Alecia P. Long
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:52:45 -0000
I am signing on to Histsex because my academic research questions are in
this field. I am historian at the Louisiana State Museum, and am ABD from
the University of Delaware. I am at work on a dissertation which is
tentatively titled "The Great Southern Babylon: Sexuality, Race, and
Reform in New Orleans, 1862-1920."
In the dissertation, I'm trying to explore myths about sexuality in New
Orleans, through the stories and lives of individuals whose erotic,
romantic, sexual, or commercial concerns help to illuminate questions about
sexuality and erotic life in the city. It's a big, sometimes nebulous, but
ultimately very enlightening and rewarding line of inquiry. I look forward
to taking part in discussion and inquiry on the list.
Alecia P. Long, Historian
Lousiana State Museum
(504)568-6961/along@crt.state.la.us
______________________________________________________________________
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 15:57:27 -0800
From: "Nancy Unger" <NUnger@scu.edu>
Subject: Intimate Matters
In his recent posting, Tim Hodgdon wrote " Also, check D'Emilio and Freedman's now
somewhat dated but still very useful *Intimate Matters,* to see what the
note references might yield."
Intimate Matters has just been (is just about to be?) released in a 2nd edition.
Nancy C. Unger
Department of History
Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95030-0285
(408) 554-6889
nunger@scu.edu
______________________________________________________________________
From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Re; Betty Parker Duff's query on women's intimate relationships
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 18:36:48 -0000
Two books on the British scene which may be helpful: Martha Vicinus, =
_Independent Women: work and community for single women, 1850-1920_ =
(London: Virago, 1985); Elizabeth Edwards, =91Homoerotic Friendship and =
College Principals, 1880-1960', in _Women=92s History Review_ 4 (1995), =
149-63.
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
______________________________________________________________________
Subject: Introduction
From: Gillian Rodger <grodger@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 03:14:34 +0000
Finally a brief introduction:
My name is Gillian Rodger and I recently finished my PhD in Ethnomusicology
at the University of Pittsburgh. My dissertation was on male impersonators
in North America (primarily the United States) and I began to find myself
more and more interested in historical writings on sex and gender as a
result of my research.
I have read a lot of 19thC sexology (looking for references to actresses +
x-dressing + inversion), as well as late 19thC and early 20thC manuals on
correct female behavior. While I have read some material relating to other
parts of the world my primary interest in this area is the construction of
sex, gender and sexuality in the American context.
I am currently working at Garland Publishing in New York (also owned by T&F,
Rictor).
Gillian Rodger
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Subject: Re: Introduction: Betty Parker Duff, history of lesbianism
From: Gillian Rodger <grodger@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 03:06:36 +0000
One interesting source of information regarding American familiarity with
same-sex attraction is the scandal sheet *The National Police Gazette*
One of the actresses I study married her female dresser in 1886 and the
Police Gazette was fabulously incoherant about the event and eventually
re-assigned the actress as a "male." But in 1883 it had also spent a good
number of issues slurring the Swedish soprano, Christine Nilsson, by
accusing her of inappropriately pursuing women--using, btw, the words
Lesbian and Sappho to refer to this condition. Other foreign actresses were
also treated to something similar. It seems that they viewed same-sex
affection as being something endemic in foreigners.
I have also found over 75 reports of passing women in the years between 1870
and 1890.
While the PG will not give you any summary of attitudes, it does complicate
some of our received wisdom about sex and sexuality and I only wish I had
more time to work on this newspaper myself.
Gillian Rodger
>From: Tim Hodgdon <Tim.Hodgdon@asu.edu>
wrote:
>Some of the recent scholarship on sexuality and popular culture has
>begun to qualify the historiographical line of reasoning to which you
>refer. While certainly the emergence of "scientific" sexology
>influenced popular thinking about sexual behavior, the influences now
>seem to have been more the other way around--i.e., that emerging modern
>sexual practices influenced sexology considerably more than sexology did
>modern sexual values and practices. <SNIP>
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From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Fw: Introduction, Elise Chenier
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 16:30:52 -0000
My name is Elise Chenier and I am in the PhD history program at Queen's =
University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Currently wading through prisoner =
files and already regretting that I can't reproduce the incredible =
photos therein, I am looking to document the introduction of treatment =
programs for sex offenders and prisoners who either displayed or =
confessed to sex-related problems. My dissertation is focussed on =
Ontario provincial prisons in the postwar era. I came to this rather =
startling (and often bleak) place via earlier work I have done - and =
continue to do - around lesbians in the same era. Sex and gender, as one =
list member has begun to discover, are virtually inseperable, and =
psychological/psychiatric texts and practices in this period provide an =
especially hyperbolic testament to that fact. Witness one prisoner who =
in an attempt to make himself more beautiful bit his lips and rubbed his =
cheeks. For this he received 3 days solitary confinement on a reduced =
diet (the politically neutral term for rations). He persisted, though, =
and was later reprimanded for twisting his bangs into curls. Was he gay? =
Undoubtedly. Ever caught having sexual relations? Never. =20
=20
Elise Chenier
Department of History
Queen's University
=20
echenier@pathcom.com=20
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 18:15:30 -0500
From: Carol Thomas <carol.thomas@nist.gov>
Subject: Female cross-dressing
Gillian Rodger wrote:
> <<One interesting source of information regarding American familiarity with
> same-sex attraction is the scandal sheet *The National Police Gazette* [snip]
>> I have also found over 75 reports of passing women in the years between 1870
> and 1890.>>
There are places where female cross-dressing was illegal in this country: in
portions of the West in the 19th century and in New Orleans as late as the 1950s,
I believe. Were there any laws or ordinances against it in New England in the
late 19th century? Ever?
Carol
carol.thomas@nist.gov
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Subject: Re: Female cross-dressing
From: Gillian Rodger <grodger@worldnet.att.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 06:03:56 +0000
A number of lesbian histories refer to laws prohibiting x-dressing and the
fact that the police would use those laws to harrass butch lesbians. I've
seen no direct reference to laws governing FEMALE dress in this period. I
know Gladys Bentley is reputed to have had special dispensation from the
city of NY to appear off-stage in male dress in the 1920s and 1930s. I've
also seen reference to laws prohibiting male-to-female cross-dressing
(apparently anti-government farmers used to travel dressed as women to
secret meetings--and I can't remember where I saw this I'm afraid).
In all of the cases reported by the PG the women were either let off with a
warning, or, if they had married other women fraudulently (i.e. their wives
claimed not to have known they were women) they were charged with fraud. At
one point I looked up the Michigan marriage laws and found that fraud on the
part of wither the bride or groom invalidated the marriage (this is in the
1851 statute but was still in effect into the 1880s at least). Makes me
wonder how often this happened!
Gillian
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Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 10:18:13 -0800
From: Elizabeth Reis <lzreis@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
Subject: cross-dressing in New England
On cross-dressing in early America:
Patricia Bonomi's _The Lord Cornbury Scandal: The Politics of Reputation in
British America_ mentions laws against cross-dressing in the early American
period. This is from page 141 of her book:
"At least twice in seventeenth-century New York men were arrested for
appearing publicly in women's clothes, even though both incidents occurred
during celebrations of Shrove Tuesday (known better today as Mardi Gras).
In 1696, Massachusetts had enacted a statute against cross dressing by
either sex. In 1703, shortly after Cornbury arrived in the colonies, one
John Smith of Philadelphia was charged with being "Maskt, or Disgised in
womens aparrell. . . it being against the Law of God, the Law of this
province and the Law of nature, to the staining of holy profestion, and
Incoridging of wickednes in this place." And in 1709, Boston merchant
Samuel Sewall branded transvestism an "abomination," taking both the word
and the thought from the injunction to that effect in Deuteronomy. 22:5."
For another interesting colonial case (in Virginia), see Kathleen Brown,
"'Changed . . . into the Fashion of Man': The Politics of Sexual Difference
in a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American Settlement, in Catherine Clinton
and Michele Gillespie, eds., The Devil's Lane: Sex and Race in the Early
South (NY, 1997)
On the nineteenth century, a good place to start would be Daniel A. Cohen,
The Female Marine and Related Works: Narratives of Cross-Dressing and Urban
Vice in America's Early Republic (Amherst: Univ. of Mass. Press, 1997)
Elizabeth Reis
Department of History
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
541-346-5904
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 18:35:50 +0000
From: Ianthe <ianthe@duende.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Call for papers - fwd
--fwd from MODBRITS starts--
This call for papers for a special session proposal appears
in the MLA Newsletter, but is of particular relevance to
ModBrits:
Outsiders in The Great War.
When patriotism and propaganda determine the national(ist)
narrative, what stories are told from the perspective of
the Other? Looking in at England from its own social or
geographic edges, what perspectives do foreigners ("allies"
or "enemies") residing in Britain, colonial subjects, or
socially marginalized characters offer on Great Britain
in wartime? How do these often neglected texts interact
with our memory/mythology of the Great War?
Abstracts or papers by 17 March to Michelle N. Mimlitsch,
UCLA Department of English, 2225 Rolfe Hall, Box 90095-
1530, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1530 or by email to
michelle@mimlitsch.com. I hope to hear from some of you!
Michelle N. Mimlitsch
-- fwd ends --
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From: "Dan Healey" <ddh@arts.gla.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:50:48 +0000
Subject: Intro: Dan Healey
I'm writing to introduce myself. My name is Dan Healey, and I have just
defended my PhD thesis, "Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: Public
and Private Transcripts, 1917-1941" at the U. of Toronto.
I am now a post-graduate research fellow in History at U. of Glasgow, and my
new project is "Early Soviet Forensic Medicine and the Limits of Sexual
Utopianism". I am intending to examine provincial Russian archives to find out
how Soviet doctors acting for the courts made determinations in criminal cases
involving sexual offenses. Soviet doctors were handed quite important new
interpretive powers in such cases, which were governed by very terse but
radical revolutionary legislation. I want to get at these doctors' sense of what
the sexual revolution meant, and how that was influenced by their medical and
sexological knowledge. Anyone who can tell me about medical/sexological
influence on "sexual revolutions" in other times and contexts - please get in
touch! I'm especially - but not exclusively - interested in non-Western contexts.
And finally, on the subject of female cross-dressing. Pat Califa's book, The
Politics of Transgenderism, suggests many post-gay&lesbian ways to read the
lives of "passing women" (and men) in the past. Transgendered/transsexual
people are now beginning to point to these historical individuals as examples of
their predecessors. While some may not wish to conceed this point, from my
own research, the diversity of motives and desires expressed by passing
women for their behaviour makes viewing them as "lesbian" more complicated.
PS: Hi Elise Chenier! Glad to hear you're continuing your work.
Dan Healey
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine
School of History and Archaeology
University of Glasgow
5 University Gardens
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Tel. (0141) 330-5553
Fax (0141) 330-3511
PLEASE NOTE NEW EMAIL: ddh@arts.gla.ac.uk
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From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Call for papers: European Social Science History Conference 2000
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 20:00:38 -0000
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Third European Social Science History Conference will be held in
Amsterdam from 12-15 April 2000.
The ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars interested in explaining
historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The
conference is characterized by a lively exchange in many small groups,
rather than by formal plenary sessions. The Conference wellcomes papers =
and
sessions on any topic and any historical period. It is organised in an =
large
number of networks which cover a certain topic (e.g. criminal justice,
family, social inequality, economics). This Conference fee will be dfl. =
300
(at present this is about US $ 150). The deadline for sending an =
abstract is
30 april 1999.
Further information about the European Social Science History Conference =
can
be obtained from the Conference Internet Site at=20
http://www.iisg.nl/ESSHC.
A history of sexuality network is being planned.
I personally recommend this conference very highly: I went last year and =
as well as the very lively history of sexuality sessions there were =
stimulating panels on women's history, demography, childhood, and a =
multitude of others I didn't get to because of the workshop structure.
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
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Date: 28 Feb 1999 16:40:42 -0000
From: Histsex:For historians of sexuality <histsex-owner@listbot.com>
Subject: Introductions
I hope that people who join this list will post brief introductions about
themselves, what they are working on, their general areas of interest
within history of sexuality, and any other pertinent information.
I originally sent my own introductory message to a very much smaller group
of subscribers (about 10% of the current membership), so repost it for the
benefit of all who have joined since then:
I'm an archivist at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in
London (and also an Honorary Lecturer at University College London). I've
published 2 books, _Hidden Anxieties: Male Sexuality 1900-1950_ (Polity
Press, 1991) and (with Roy Porter) _The Facts of Life: the creation of
sexual knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950_ (Yale UP 1995), and numerous
articles and chapters on birth
control, STDs, sexology, heterosexual relations, Marie Stopes, Stella
Browne, etc, and reviews in a wide range of periodicals. 2 co-edited
volumes on _Sexual Cultures in Europe_ (with Franz Eder and Gert Hekma)
are due to appear from Manchester UP this spring. I'm currently working on
a textbook 'Sex, gender and social change in Britain since 1880', a
co-edited volume (with Roger Davidson) on venereal diseases in their
social context in Europe since 1870, and a biography of feminist socialist
sex radical Stella Browne (1880-1955). I'm interested in most aspects of
history of sexuality and sexual culture/gender questions, in the C19th and
C20th in particular, especially in Britain.
My website includes various history of sexuality links plus some of my own
unpublished papers, also some of Stella Browne's writings
Lesley
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
histsex-owner@listbot.com
http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah