HISTSEX ARCHIVES: SEPTEMBER 1999
© Lesley Hall and list contributors
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 17:00:57 +1000
From: Christopher Forth <Christopher.Forth@anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Copraphagia
Hi, again--
I didn't really expect to find much with this copraphagia query, and
appreciate the responses of those who took a stab. The quote I have in mind
comes from Eugen Weber's _France, Fin de Siècle_, where he cites André
Germain asking this of Jean Lorrain: "Was he copraphagous? Copraphagy was
quite fashionable at the time" (pp. 37-38). Weber goes on to say that the
idea of copraphagia was probably more in fashion than the actual practice,
which sort of puts it into perspective. Nevertheless, it was worth asking,
I think.
cheers!
Chris
***********************
Christopher E. Forth
Department of History
Faculty of Arts
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Australia
Tel: 02 6249 2717
Fax: 02 6249 4083
http://www.anu.edu./history/index.htm
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Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 05:44:00 -0700 (MST)
From: Tim Hodgdon <Tim.Hodgdon@asu.edu>
Subject: Re: RCPT: Introduction
Any way to weed out or prevent transmission of messages like
the one below? They're useful in other contexts, but not on
a list such as this
Tim Hodgdon
Ph.D. candidate
Faculty Associate
Department of History
Arizona State University
Tim.Hodgdon@asu.edu
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From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Re: RCPT: Introduction
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 19:32:11 +0100
I'm not sure why this is happening - it's not routinely coming from the same
address so it's not a case of an individual who has got their system set to
do this auto-receipt - and it's nothing that one seems able to do anything
about in the list management selections. If it goes on I'll try contacting
the listbot helpdesk. Apologies to all for the inconvenience.
Lesley Hall
histsex-owner@listbot.com
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
website http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
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Date: 2 Sep 1999 08:43:36 -0000
From: "Histsex:For historians of sexuality" <histsex-owner@listbot.com>
Subject: RCPT message problem
Pending resolution of this (I have contacted the Listbot help desk) I am
reinstating moderation of the list so that I can discard these empty
messages before they reach the entire list.
Lesley Hall
histsex-owner@listbot.com
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Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 21:18:48 +1000
From: Hera Cook <dcoo8738@mail.usyd.edu.au>
Subject: Re: re gender stability
Hi Tim,
(I'm not a Prof. by the way)
I find this interesting - the period covered by my doctorate ended in 1975 and I have
never researched my own culture in any event.
In my NZ experience, what I label the pro-sex feminism (as opposed to the separatist
anti-body feminism) of the 1970s was based on an almost axiomatic belief in gender
equality which was applied to all things and to all situations. Traditional gender
roles were regarded as gender constructs and disregarded as much as possible by those
people I knew in same sex relationships and in opposite sex relationships. I found this
then and do now, the only way to be.
Hmmmm, not all sex is theory. And no theory, aside from Kate Millet whom I read when I
was twelve, was what I would call formative.
Hera
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From: "ondit letter" <teague76@hotmail.com>
Subject: the problem with hustlers...
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 05:26:35 GMT
Hello
My name is Daniel Marshall and I am currently studying Honours in English at
the University of Adelaide, Australia. In my thesis I am attempting to
examine the "hustler" as an icon within a specified "system" of (erotic)
aesthetics. I am interested in the featuring of the hustler in "beat" texts
and the so-called "new queer road movie" genre: Rechy's "city of night",
Warhol's Joe Dallesandro trilogy, "My own Private Idaho"....However, I am
finding it difficult to find anything written about this idea of the
"hustler" as an aesthetic idea, and i would be interested in discussing
people's ideas about it.
I would really appreciate anyone's suggestions re: resources etc..
Daniel.
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From: "Chris Willis" <chris@chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: re gender stability
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 19:07:02 +0100
Hi!
Many thanks to everyone who replied to my message about The Importance of
Being Earnest.
All the best
Chris
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Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 13:08:40 +0100
From: Ianthe <ianthe@duende.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: the problem with hustlers...
In message <19990905052635.61735.qmail@hotmail.com>, ondit letter
<teague76@hotmail.com> writes
>Histsex:For historians of sexuality - http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
>
>Hello
>
>My name is Daniel Marshall and I am currently studying Honours in English at
>the University of Adelaide, Australia. In my thesis I am attempting to
>examine the "hustler" as an icon within a specified "system" of (erotic)
>aesthetics. I am interested in the featuring of the hustler in "beat" texts
>and the so-called "new queer road movie" genre: Rechy's "city of night",
>Warhol's Joe Dallesandro trilogy, "My own Private Idaho"....However, I am
>finding it difficult to find anything written about this idea of the
>"hustler" as an aesthetic idea, and i would be interested in discussing
>people's ideas about it.
>I would really appreciate anyone's suggestions re: resources etc..
>
>Daniel.
_Midnight Cowboy_ is a related homosocial movie which springs
to mind. Perhaps also one that points to a component in the
hustler construction in which "the rural" and "the city" are
structuring dichotomies ?
This might be useful too ?:
Maynard, Steve.
'Horrible temptations': sex, men, and working-class male youth
in urban Ontario, 1890-1935. Canadian Historical Review,
06/1997.
Also George Chauncey has a discussion of 'wolves' and 'punks',
an erotic system of intergenerational sex common among seamen,
prisoners, and hoboes.
There was also a thesis done on hoboes (ie: tramps) in the
USA and the homosexual relations between young drifters:
Chad Heap
History grad student, 1996, University of Chicago:
"I have been working on single men and sexuality in Chicago during
the early decades of the twentieth century. In particular, I
wrote my M.A. thesis on issues of race, gender and sexuality among
hobos. The hobo subculture seems to have provided a site of
increased racial tolerance, including the tolerance of interracial
heterosexual relationships on the road. Yet the hobo subculture
was also a site of fairly rampant male homosexual activity.
Many of the homosexual road relationships were intergenerational
"jocker"-"punk"."
Hope this helps,
--
Ianthe Duende
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Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 10:01:37 -0700 (MST)
From: Tim Hodgdon <Tim.Hodgdon@asu.edu>
Subject: Re: the problem with hustlers...
Daniel: In order to frame the aesthetic idea, you're going
to have to ground it in masculinity as political practice.
Doing so will be a lot of work, but very rewarding. For
starters, I'd recommend John Stoltenberg's two books, *The
End of Manhood* and *Refusing to Be a Man,* and "Pimping:
The Oldest Profession," a chapter in Kathleen Barry's
*Female Sexual Slavery.* Much luck.
Tim Hodgdon
Ph.D. candidate
Faculty Associate
Department of History
Arizona State University
Tim.Hodgdon@asu.edu
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From: "Chris Willis" <chris@chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Maines' martyrdom
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 18:07:03 +0100
Hi!
I'm astounded! The TENS machine is used by many hospitals to ease labour
pains, and is recognised by the medical professions as a pain reliever with
no side effects. It's one of the few things that can give some measure of
relief to RSI sufferers, and is a godsend to people with severe back pain.
What's CBT? Over here it means Compulsory Basic Training (ie the first part
of the test you do to get a motorcycling licence) but somehow I don't think
that's what you meant :-)
All the best
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: markin@patriot.net <markin@patriot.net>
To: Histsex:For historians of sexuality <histsex@listbot.com>
Date: 27 August 1999 19:05
Subject: Re: Maines' martyrdom
>>Ah, so that's the "legitimate" use of the Tens machine ... I'd wondered,
>but didn't know whom to ask. The only context in I'd ever come across the
>thing was CBT. And the only advert I've ever seen was on the web (not
>sure I could find it again, though), on a sex "toy" site ... So, it all
>depends on what advertisements one finds, although it's easier to find
>explicitly sexual ones now than it was in Victorian times.
>
>
>Mario Rups
>markin@patriot.net
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Date: 5 Sep 1999 20:02:48 -0000
From: "Histsex:For historians of sexuality" <histsex-owner@listbot.com>
Subject: Research Interests Register
Histsex:For historians of sexuality - http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
This is just a reminder to send your information for this to me - either
at histsex-owner@listbot.com or lesleyah@primex.co.uk, if you would like
it to be added. I am not making the assumption that the details given when
individuals introduce themselves to the list is necessarily anything they
want putting on the register.
Lesley
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Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 08:47:03 +0200
From: Gert Hekma <hekma@pscw.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: the problem with hustlers...
Daniel
for resources the Homodok (info@homodok.nl) a gay lesbian studies archive
and resource center might give you a bibliography on your topic.
Gert hekma
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From: "Donna Larsen" <ladydonna85@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Maines' martyrdom
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 12:08:24 PDT
Sadomasochists use CBT as short for cock and ball torcher. And yes we
really do use Tens units for that. Electricity is one of the very popular
fetishes among SMers, we have also been known to use Violet Wands. Both can
create some very interesting sensations.
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From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Fw: Introduction: David Robinson
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 19:52:59 +0100
From: David Robinson <dmrobins@U.Arizona.EDU>
To: histsex-owner@listbot.com <histsex-owner@listbot.com>
Date: 05 September 1999 22:36
Subject: Introduction
>Hi,
>
>Here's the information that you requested, to serve as my introduction to
>the list:
>
>Dr. David Michael Robinson
>Assistant Professor of 18th-Century Literature and Lesbian and Gay Studies
>English Dept., University of Arizona (Tucson)
>
>M.A. (1993) and Ph.D. (1998) from the University of California at Berkeley.
>
>I work on the representation of lesbians and gay men in seventeenth- and
>eighteenth-century Britain and France. I will soon be expanding my studies
>to include Holland, Italy, and Germany as well.
>
>Publications:
>"Unravelling the 'cord which ties good men to good men': male friendship in
>Richardson's novels," in Margaret Anne Doody and Peter Sabor, eds., _Samuel
>Richardson: Tercentenary Essays_ (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1989),
pp.
>167-187.
>
>"Refining Upon their Mysterious Innocence: Lesbian and Bisexual Women in
>Manley's _New Atalantis_," to be published in an upcoming, special issue of
>_Nineteenth-Century Contexts_ devoted to queer topics, edited by Rick
>Incorvati.
>
>"'New, unknown, prodigious Fires': Ovid's Story of Iphis and Ianthe in
>Augustan Rome and on the Seventeeth-Century British and French Stage," to
be
>published in _Presenting Gender: Sex Change in Early Modern Culture,_
edited
>by Christopher Mounsey (forthcoming from Manchester Univ. Pr./Longman).
>
>"The Abominable Madame de Murat: Reading her Life, Reading (into?) her
>Fiction," to be published in an upcoming special double issue of _The
>Journal of Homosexuality_ or _The Journal of the History of Sexuality_
(I've
>forgotten which) devoted to French Lesbian and Gay History, to be edited
(or
>coedited) by Jeffrey Merrick.
>
>Conference papers:
>
>My most recent conference paper was entitled "Taming the Tribade:
Rhetorical
>Strategies of Antilesbian Discourse in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century
>Britain and France"; it was delivered at the annual conference of the
>International Society for the History of Rhetoric, held in Amsterdam in
July
>1999.
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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 11:49:01 EST
From: markin@patriot.net
Subject: Re: Maines' martyrdom
> I'm astounded! The TENS machine is used by many hospitals to ease labour
> pains, and is recognised by the medical professions as a pain reliever with
But, you see, I'm not a doctor, nor do I work in a hospital. I *do*, on
the other hand, subscribe to a number of sex / sexuality lists in an
attempt to understand (or at least learn more about -- some things remain,
to me, beyond comprehension) various facets of the topic. It was on one of
those that I heard the TENS machine first referred to, and the URL I
followed (but did not note down) did show its use on another part of the
anatomy altogether than the back. (The caption, at least, claimed it was a
TENS machine, although it only capitalized the initial.)
> What's CBT? Over here it means Compulsory Basic Training (ie the first part
With apologies to those who are offended by explicit language, it stands
for "Cock and Ball Torture", a subset of the bondage / S-M form. If anyone
truly wants me to be more explicit, I can provide various URLs, perhaps,
but you need a strong stomach. Your imaginations will serve quite well, I
suspect.
> of the test you do to get a motorcycling licence) but somehow I don't think
> that's what you meant :-)
<laughs> Nope.
> All the best
> Chris
And to you.
Mario
Mario Rups
markin@patriot.net
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From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: The Ancient Greeks again
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 18:44:06 +0100
I just today came across an article in The New Statesman for 23 Aug, =
Kwasi Kwarteng, 'Was Plato the only Greek gay?' - this can be found via =
the NS website, http://www.newstatesman.co.uk by doing a search on the =
archives under Kwarteng's name.
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
website http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 11:49:03 EST
From: markin@patriot.net
Subject: Re: the problem with hustlers...
Although neither book addresses the subject of the hustler as an aesthetic
idea, you might want to take a glance at John Preston's _Hustling: A
Gentleman's Guide to the Fine Art of Homosexual Prostitution_ (New York:
Madquerade Books, 1994) and Joseph Itiel, _A Consumer's Guide to Male
Hustlers_ (New York: Harrington Park Press, 1998), both in print and in
paperback. The former gives the hustler's point of view (Preston having
been a hustler earlier in his life); the latter, the client's (Itiel having
hired hustlers for several decades in preference to the rather
catch-as-catch-can cruising for sexual partners). Together, these two
books give one some interesting insights, and the Preston (with Itiel
following him) has a fairly good explanation of the differences between
hustling and (female) prostitution.
Searching on the Web under terms like "male escort" brings up some
interesting material, as well -- specifically adverts for and websites of
a number of hustlers. Comparing the (projected) reality of the real thing
with the fictional reality of the films might prove useful.
Mario Rups
markin@patriot.net
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From: "jayD" <jaysd@mistral.co.uk>
Subject: Women's History Newsletter
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 09:17:25 +0100
I am the editor of the Newsletter of the Southern Region of the Women's
History Network. If any of you have anu itmes you think mightbe of interst
to wmen's hsi toirans (conferences, web sites, books, news, information
requests etc), please do let me have them as I am putting the Autumn
newsletter together this week end.
Thanks,
jay
jaysd@mistral.co.uk
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Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 18:34:33 +0100
From: Paula Bartley <fa1912@wlv.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Women's History Newsletter
Dear Jay
Two items for your newsletter:
1)Women's History Network (Midlands Region) Conference on Women and War at
the University of Wolverhampton, Dudley Campus on Saturday November 13th
1999. Speakers to include Bernice Archer on Women, Quilts and Changi prison;
Barbara Broad on the experiences of P-O-W's wives in 2nd W.War, Carole
Frankish on rural women's war work and Janis Lomas on war widows.
Further details from Dr Paula Bartley, School of Humanities, Languages and
Social Sciences, Dudley Campus, University of Wolverhampton, Dudley, DY1
3HR or e-mail P.Bartley@wlv.ac.uk.
2)To publicise my book! Paula Bartley, Prostitution: Reform and Prevention
in England, 1860-1914, Routledge, November 1999.
All the best
Paula Bartley
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Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 10:13:50 +0100
From: cristina santos <cristina@fe.uc.pt>
Subject: greek homossexuality again
Can anyone, please, share with me the name of the book, year of
publication, editor and place where "Classical Greek Atitudes to Sexual
Behaviour" DOVER, K. J. (1973) was published?
I have a paper to deliver in a few hours and I have this one missing, so
this is kind of urgent...
Thanks. I promiss I'll introduce myself sooner than latter...
Cris
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Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 21:49:53 +0100
From: Alison Oram <aoram@orangetree.u-net.com>
Subject: Lesbian history in Australasia and Ireland
Some fairly recent articles that I've found useful on Australian lesbian
history are:
- Lucy Chesser, "A Woman who married three wives....", Journal of Women's
History, 9:4, Winter 1998.
- Ruth Ford, 'Lesbians and loose women: Female sexuality and the women's
services during World War II' in J. Damousi & M. Lake (eds), _Gender and
War: Australians at war in the 20th century_ (Cambridge Univ Press, 1995)
- Ruth Ford, 'Speculating on Scrapbooks, Sex and Desire: Issues in Lesbian
History', Australian Historical Journal 106, April 1996.
Hope these are helpful.
I'm looking for some parallel information on Irish lesbian history as it
happens. Can anyone point me in the direction of the main secondary
sources?? In particular, I'm interested in whether the Ladies of
Llangollen (two Irish gentry women who eloped together in 1788 to live
together in Wales until their deaths c.1830) are considered to be part of a
specifically Irish lesbian heritage. They have certainly been seen as part
of a British lesbian tradition, but I don;t want to completely reassign
their national identity in the work I'm currently doing!
Thanks
Alison Oram
London (and University College Northampton, UK)
At 21:37 24/08/99 -0700, you wrote:
>Histsex:For historians of sexuality - http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
>
>Does anyone on the list know of any brand new work being published on
>lesbian history in New Zealand or Australia? I've rather lost touch since
>leaving NZ 7 years ago and would like to get a sense of the state of the
>field "down under", but web searches have revealed almost nothing. Any
>references you could provide would be most helpful.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Karen
>
>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>Karen Duder PhD Programme
>Department of History Email kduder@uvic.ca
>University of Victoria Dept. Phone (250) 721-7382
>P.O. Box 3045 Dept. Fax (250) 721-8772
>Victoria, B.C. V8W 3P4
>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: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:55:05 -0700
From: Karen Duder <kduder@UVic.CA>
Subject: Re: Lesbian history in Australasia and Ireland
Alison - thanks for the references! The second Ford one is familiar to me,
but the other two are not. The war article looks particularly relevant to
my work.
I have never seen anything dealing with "The Ladies" as specifically
*Irish* lesbians. Good luck in your search.
Karen
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Karen Duder PhD Programme
Department of History Email kduder@uvic.ca
University of Victoria Dept. Phone (250) 721-7382
P.O. Box 3045 Dept. Fax (250) 721-8772
Victoria, B.C. V8W 3P4
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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Subject: Gay history conference + Introduction (again)
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 04:16:17 -0800
From: "andrei-f" <andrei-f@goplay.com>
For those who have read my previous intro, please forgive my
repetitiveness. For those who haven't, I am an amateur historical
journalist, and my curent project is editing an educational web site
called "The World History of Male Love" at http://www.androphile.org
I have been looking for information on any upcoming conferences on
gay history, and have found nothing. If there isn't any, I would
consider organizing one if there is enough interest. Amsterdam in the
winter of 2001 might be nice.
Thank you.
A. Kallimachos
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From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: The Ancient Greeks - yet again!
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 21:30:19 +0100
In 'The Editor' section of the Guardian (comes with the Friday issue), =
their 'Digested Read' this week is, guess what, Vrissimitzis's _Love, =
Sex and and Marriage in Ancient Greece_, which has just been published =
in the UK by Vrissimitzis Publications. This 400 word summary (plus the =
short short in a sentence version) should be available on the =
www.newsunlimited.co.uk site (search the archives).
The book costs =A37.50 which sounds a little dear to me if it is only 80 =
pages long. On the other hand, it is illustrated (over 30 figures from =
vases)
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
website http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
________________________________________________________________ From: ddh@arts.gla.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:15:08 +0000
Subject: Re: The Ancient Greeks - yet again!
I've just come back to Scotland from Zakinthos where Vrissimitzis's _Love, Sex
and and Marriage in Ancient Greece_, is on sale for about 2,000 drachmas
(about 4 pounds) in every tacky tourist-trap souvenir stand, in many different
languages. It strikes me as the latest in a long line of popular-histories-of-sex-in-
the-ancient-world-for-tourists, an interesting genre in its own right if you think of
the history of tourism. The illustrations are rather good, but some of them are
lower-quality photos by the author; the objects they depict are scupulously
referenced. The text is unspeakably homophobic and every sentence with a
point to make ends with an exclamation mark! It's my favourite souvenir from
my holiday!
Dan Healey
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
ddh@arts.gla.ac.uk
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From: "Donna Larsen" <ladydonna85@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Gay history conference + Introduction (again)
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 19:08:18 PDT
What a fascinating site. I am at Community College and getting ready to
take my three quarters of foreign language requirement for my AA transfere
degree. I will be taking French. Since my area is going to be sexology, I
will have to do some papers on sex attitudes in France both in past and
present, I will definitely look to your site for information.
________________________________________________________________
From: MillerJimE@aol.com
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:42:43 EDT
Subject: Re: The Ancient Greeks - yet again!
In a message dated 09/13/1999 1:42:19 PM Central Daylight Time,
ddh@arts.gla.ac.uk writes:
<< where Vrissimitzis's _Love, Sex and and Marriage in Ancient Greece_, is
on sale for about 2,000 drachmas . . . . and every sentence with a point to
make ends with an exclamation mark! >>
Ooooh, that's a book I just have to read (!).
Jim Miller
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 17:40:10 +0100
From: cristina santos <cristina@fe.uc.pt>
Subject: Re: Gay history conference + Introduction (again)
Thanks for sharing with us your wonderful site, which is already in my
bookmarks. I wonder if you could't do something with that quality for
lesbian history. Because my dissertation (sociology degree) is on sexual
identities, I would love to see that kind of material concerning most
sexual minorities groups. And, yes, please organize that conference in
Amsterdam, I'm pretty sure I'll be there!!
OK, I won't delay my owm introduction no more. I'm 24, I'm finishing my
degree in Sociology at the University of Coimbra (portugal) and I'm also
working at the Center for Social Studies. Most of the time I read books,
write short essays and do a little research, which pleases me a lot. Would
you all be too angry if I shared with you my sexual orientation? Since I
remembber whwt happened a few weeks ago with Donna Larsen, I'm having
second thoughts on this one... Anyway, so far I'm straight.
Cristina
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From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Re: French sexual attitudes
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 20:13:00 +0100
>will have to do some papers on sex attitudes in France both in past and
>present,
On this topic, I strongly recommend the work of Robert Nye. (e.g. shameless
advertising plug, his article in Eder, Hall and Hekma, Sexual Cultures in
Europe: National Histories)
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
website http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
________________________________________________________________ Subject: Re: Gay history conference + Introduction (again)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 04:43:16 -0800
From: "andrei-f" <andrei-f@goplay.com>
>Thanks for sharing with us your wonderful site, which is already in
>my bookmarks. I wonder if you could't do something with that quality
>for lesbian history.
As it is, my resources are stretched to the breaking point by the
present project. However, I could certainly assist someone by making
the basic structure of the site available to someone who was willing
to do the journalistic work. It would clearly be a much harder task,
because of the double repression that obsures lesbian history.
As far as Amsterdam goes, I very much hope it comes together. If it
does, I would like to give it a particular thrust, and that is -
Getting the Word Out. (We might even use that as the title of the
conference). The issue for me is this: A great deal of work is being
done in academia, but the impact on society to this point has not
been great, kids still grow up in homophobic neighborhoods and
schools, totally ignorant of the facts of gender history. You should
see some of the letters filled with relieved gratitude bordering on
disbelief I have gotten from teenagers on the Androphile site. (Look
at the "Symposium" section for a sample).
Hope to see you there,
Andrei
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Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:45:56 +0100
From: Paula Bartley <fa1912@wlv.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: The Ancient Greeks - yet again!
Plea for help
I'm trying to get funding for a joint project (with statutory agencies, the
voluntary sector and academics) on twentieth century prostitution in
England, focussing particularly on the Midlands. I work at the University
of Wolverhampton as Senior Lecturer in History.
Any advice on how to obtain monies and any ideas on the applicability of
history to present-day prostitution? Anyone else doing similar work?
Thanks
Paula Bartley
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Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 22:50:25 +0000
Subject: Hirschfeld bibliography/Titus Pearls
From: ralfdose@t-online.de (Ralf Dose)
Dear Colleagues,
may I ask you for some help with a little reseach project: As
you may know, there was an impotence remedy invented by
Bernhard Schapiro and Magnus Hirschfeld at the Institute for Sexual
Science. This hormone pharmaceutical was sold since 1927 under the
name of Testifortan to the medical profession in Germany, and (since
1929) as Titus-Perlen (Titus Pearls, Perlas Titus, Perles Titus) to
a general public in Germany and abroad. We know of corresponding
pharmacies in Switzerland, Spain, and France; and distribution in
England is mentioned in some contracts, but we do not have any proof.
There were even detailed contracts to bring "Titus Pearls" to the
U.S., but it is not sure whether something came out of it.
There were little promotion brochures for the "Titus Pearls" in
German, Spanish, French, and in English. Unfortunately, we never saw
one of the English brochures, though there is a cataloque entry at
the Deutsche Buecherei in Leipzig. These brochures were issued under
the title "New Life" (Neues Leben/Nueva Vida/Une vie nouvelle), with
no author given. As we want to complete the entries for the second
edition of Jim Steakley's Hirschfeld bibliography, we would really
like to know whether a copy of the English brochure still exists. If
anyone of you has an idea where to look for it (especially in British
libraries) please let me know (Lesley: I've checked the Wellcome
online catalogue--no result). Or, if the brochure happens to be in
your institution's library, may I ask for a copy?
Thanks a lot for any help you can give.
Ralf
Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft e.V.
Forschungsstelle zur Geschichte der Sexualwissenschaft
Chodowieckistr. 41, D-10405 Berlin
http://www.in-berlin.de/user/hirschfeld
ralfdose@magnus.in-berlin.de office e-mail
x49-30-441 39 73 office phone/fax
ralfdose@t-online.de home e-mail
x49-30-215 94 74 home phone
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 12:08:42 +1000
From: Christopher Forth <Christopher.Forth@anu.edu.au>
Subject: 19th Century Pornography
Hi, all--
Can anyone recommend work that interrogates Lynn Hunt's claim that by the
19th century pornography had lost its connection to politics? Much of the
work I know of is clustered in the early modern era and the 20th century,
leaving the 19th century somewhat underworked. I'm especially interested in
any work done in the French context--it just seems odd that the pamphlet
and underground literature around the upheavals of 1830 and 1848 would have
been without some sort of pornographic edge.
My sense is that this is a huge hole in scholarship, and will be very
interested in what people have to say about it.
best,
Chris
***********************
Christopher E. Forth
Department of History
Faculty of Arts
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Australia
Tel: 02 6249 2717
Fax: 02 6249 4083
http://www.anu.edu./history/index.htm
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 12:11:26 +1000
From: Christopher Forth <Christopher.Forth@anu.edu.au>
Subject: East Asian Sexuality
Hi, all--
I have a postgraduate student interested in exploring British treatments of
east Asian sexuality during the 18th and 19th centuries. I directed her to
Rudi Bleys' work, _The Geography of Perversion_, for its encyclopedic
approach, but would appreciate any suggestions this list may be able to
offer. She is aware of the vast litrerature on India, but is more
interested in Japan and China.
best,
Chris
***********************
Christopher E. Forth
Department of History
Faculty of Arts
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Australia
Tel: 02 6249 2717
Fax: 02 6249 4083
http://www.anu.edu./history/index.htm
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 10:21:59 +0100
From: cristina santos <cristina@fe.uc.pt>
Subject: Conference
Has anyone in the list been in the Sexual Diversity & Human Rights Second
International Conference: Beyond Boundaries : Sexual Diversity and Human
Rights, which took place at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 21-24
July 1999 ?
If so, how was it? And what were the main conclusions? Were there any
alternative though pragmatic solutions proposed? Ok, just another one: does
anyone know when the abstracts or the full communications will be available
on-line?
Thanks
Cris
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Subject: Re: 19th Century Pornography
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:42:29 -0500
From: "Michael J. Murphy" <mjmurphy@artsci.wustl.edu>
You might want to look a the work of feminist art historians like Linda
Nochlin, Linda Neal, Griselda Pollock and Abigail Solomon-Godeau. each
has explored the image of women in 19th century art. It has become
commonplace to compare 19th century salon nudes to contemporary
pornographic photography. I can't think of images directly associated
with a political treatise, but the annual salon was a state event, and
female nudes, the state iconography. Sexualized images of women were
often the locus of considerable contraversy in the art world, often with
political implications. I'm thinking particularly here of Degas'
sculpture, Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen and Manet's Olympia and his
Dejeuner sur l'Herbe. See work by Richard Kendall on Degas and Linda Neal
on the latter Manet.
Best,
Mike Murphy
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 09:34:33 -0700
From: Karen Duder <kduder@UVic.CA>
Subject: Connection between race, penis size studied
Histsex:For historians of sexuality - http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
The following article was published recently in the Vancouver Sun,
Vancouver, British Columbia, and has understandably caused much comment
here in the last week or so. Needless to say, much has been said about its
reinforcement of stereotypes.
Karen
Connection between race, penis size studied
The Vancouver Sun
Ken MacQueen
Researchers at British Columbia's Children's Hospital are taking the
measure of
newborn males to see if penis size varies by race or ethnic origin.
The unusual research, which reportedly has unsettled some hospital staff, may
put to bed the oft-debated question of whether penis size is a racial
characteristic.
As to the the proverbial question -- does size matter? -- it does, researchers
say.
"In particular, it is important to make sure that the size of the penis is
appropriate," they say in a letter seeking parental permission for the
measurements of penis length and diameter.
"The diagnosis of small penis carries important implications for babies and
parents."
The study, which began Sept. 1 and runs two months, will measure the
penises of
full-term newborns of Caucasian, Asian and East Indian background -- the main
ethnic groups in Vancouver. Blacks were not included because too few are
born at
the hospital for the study's purpose.
"This takes about three minutes and is not uncomfortable," the letter informs
mothers. "We only need remove the diaper."
The measurements will be taken at the same time as a related study measuring
birth weight and head circumference according to ethnic background.
Birth weight and body length vary by ethnicity, but penis size, by race, has
largely gone unstudied, says Dr. Pik Shun Cheng, an endocrinologist from Hong
Kong who is serving a clinical fellowship at the Children's Hospital.
Currently, the standard of normal or abnormal penis size is largely based
on the
results of a study conducted in the 1940s involving mainly Caucasians, she
said.
Vancouver is an ideal site for an update because of its diverse ethnic makeup,
said Cheng, co-investigator with Dr. Jean-Pierre Chanoine, an
endocrinologist in
the pediatrics department at the Children's Hospital.
The hypothesis is that ethnicity is related to penis size, therefore different
standards should apply when measuring development among newborns, she said
in an
interview Thursday.
For example, she said, "We hypothesize that the Chinese have a little bit
shorter penile length at birth."
An ethnic-based standard would help diagnosis of "micropenis." Background
papers
to the study say micropenis is currently defined as a stretched penis that is
shorter than 2.5 cm in length in a full-term newborn.
It can signal to parents "that the genital development and sex determination
might be abnormal in their newborn -- a very traumatizing experience even
if the
investigations later show that the baby is actually a perfectly normal male
infant."
A more ethnically sensitive standard would better tell doctors when additional
examination, investigation or treatment are required.
"In particular, we do encounter some cases of very short penile length, and
then
we need to decide whether they should be raised as a girl or as a boy --
whether
they need to have a sexual reversal," said Cheng.
A sexual reversal is a rare procedure, she stressed, but it would help to
have a
more carefully defined "cut-off point" than 2.5 cm.
"The parents and the whole family will have a lot of psychological stress.
It's
a very, very hard time because they don't know whether it's a boy or it's a
girl. That's the main reason we're doing it."
Cheng, who conducts most of the measurements herself, said virtually all
mothers
have granted permission.
"I think if I explain to them clearly, it sounds reasonable."
As for the staff, she admits some were skeptical.
"Actually, at first some of them thought it was a joke . . . but we did
explain
to them and [show] them the consent form and they think it's okay."
Cherry Graf, communications director for the hospital's research institute,
says
all research, including the penis study, is vetted for scientific and ethical
standards before it can be conducted.
It is first approved by the University of B.C.'s clinical ethics review board.
Finally it is considered by a review board at the hospital to determine how it
will affect hospital resources and patients.
She said she is not aware of any concerns raised by the study.
Cheng said the doctors hope to publish their results.
"Of course there would be no names on it," she says of the all-critical
size-thing. "It's not useful for me to have the names."
Studies of race-based theories are something of a academic minefield.
In particular, University of Western Ontario psychology professor Philippe
Rushton earned near universal condemnation for attempting to define a racial
pecking order.
He used estimates of head size and even penis size to bolster a theory that
Asians had larger heads and smaller penises, making them a more highly evolved
race.
Rushton claims that blacks have larger penises but smaller heads, while whites
finished in the middle of his much-disputed intelligence and evolutionary
scale.
*************************
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Karen Duder PhD Programme
Department of History Email kduder@uvic.ca
University of Victoria Dept. Phone (250) 721-7382
P.O. Box 3045 Dept. Fax (250) 721-8772
Victoria, B.C. V8W 3P4
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_
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
________________________________________________________________ Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 16:58:04 +0100
From: Alison Oram <aoram@orangetree.u-net.com>
Subject: Temporary Research Assistant/s Needed
I am looking for someone (probably a postgraduate student) based in London
to do some casual research work for a British Academy funded project on
women cross-dressing in interwar Britain.
The work involves scanning Sunday newspapers (The People and The News of
the World 1914-1939) on microfilm at Colindale Newspaper Library, looking
for reports of cross-dressing women. There will also be some follow-up
work in other newspapers.
There is funding for 50 days work which can be carried out by one or more
people, part-time or full-time (before Easter 2000).
Pay will be on the Researcher A scale (for appropriately qualified person)
at point 6 (£9.40 per hour, or £65.80 for a 7 hour day) plus limited
travelling expenses.
Knowledge of British lesbian history or experience of newspaper research
would be an advantage, but is not essential.
Anyone who is interested can contact me on this (home) e-mail address, and
send a CV and brief letter of application to me:
Dr Alison Oram
Reader in Women's Studies
University College Northampton
Park Campus
Boughton Green Road
Northampton
NN2 7AL
Thanks,
Alison Oram
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Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 17:27:26 +0100
From: Alison Oram <aoram@orangetree.u-net.com>
Subject: Re: 19th Century Pornography
Anna Clark is currently working on gender, sexuality and politics in the
early 19thC, and I'm sure some of her work uses pornography as source
material.
She has recently moved to a new post in the History Dept at the University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis. I'm afraid I don't have a more detailed address
for her yet, but I shouldn't think it would be too difficult to track her
down there.
Alison Oram
University College Northampton, UK
________________________________________________________________
From: kallberg@sas.upenn.edu (Jeffrey Kallberg)
Subject: Re: 19th Century Pornography
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:37:55 -0400 (EDT)
Christopher Forth wrote:
>
> Hi, all--
>
> Can anyone recommend work that interrogates Lynn Hunt's claim that by the
> 19th century pornography had lost its connection to politics? Much of the
> work I know of is clustered in the early modern era and the 20th century,
> leaving the 19th century somewhat underworked. I'm especially interested in
> any work done in the French context--it just seems odd that the pamphlet
> and underground literature around the upheavals of 1830 and 1848 would have
> been without some sort of pornographic edge.
>
> My sense is that this is a huge hole in scholarship, and will be very
> interested in what people have to say about it.
I am not aware of any such work, alas. One problem may be availability
of materials. When I spent some time investigating the *Enfer*
collection in the Paris, B.N., it was precisely materials from the period
you mention (1830-48) that I was hoping to find. But *Enfer* would
appear to preserve much more from before and after this time than during
it. Whether this is a quirk of the collection or whether it reflects
something about the actual production of pornography around Paris around
the 1830 and 1848 revolutions, I can't say.
In the few pornographic works that I read that *do* date from this
period, though, I saw nothing that would refute Hunt's claim.
--
Jeffrey Kallberg
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Music
University of Pennsylvania
201 S. 34th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6313
215-898-7545 (office)
215-573-2106 (fax)
kallberg@sas.upenn.edu
________________________________________________________________
From: MillerJimE@aol.com
Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 18:54:57 EDT
Subject: Re: Phallic Persian Scabbard
I came across an odd bit today. I was thumbing through DT Potts, The
Archaeology of Elam (Cambridge Univ Press, 1999). On p 344 is a picture of a
Persian daggar & scabbard known as an "akinakes".The scabbard is obviously
phallic. The tip is a rounded triangular shape like the head of a penis and
near the open end of the scabbard is a paired scallop which appears to be a
scrotum. With such an obvious image in large reproduction it is interesting
that the author, who presumably chose the illustration, made no comment on
the obvious phallic appearance of the scabbard.
Now, I do know that daggars and swords are obvious phallic symbols.
However, usually the imagry is not this obvious. Does anyone know who has
written on this scabbard or others like it with explicit phallic appearance?
Jim Miller
________________________________________________________________
From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Representations of abortion,early C20th England
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 12:26:46 +0100
I was wondering if the collective wisdom of the list could come up with =
any accounts (in novels, plays, etc of any or no literary standing, =
autobiography, memoirs, whatever) of abortion in England (the legal =
situation was different in Scotland) prior to the 1967 Abortion Act?
I have the following references:
H Granville-Barker's play _Waste_ (woman dies from illegal abortion =
following affair with politician)
ASM Hutchinson _This Freedom_ (misogynistic and anti-feminist novel in =
which mother more interested in career than children, is punished by, =
among other things, the death of her daughter {who I guess is also being =
punished for taking too much advantage of WWI freedoms for women} from =
illicit abortion)
Michael Arlen, _The Green Hat_ (as I recall, it's ages since I read =
this, at one point Iris is in a Paris nursing home with 'septic =
poisoning', the implication being that this is the outcome of an =
abortion gone wrong)
Rosamund Lehmann, _The Weather in the Streets_ (Olivia aborts pregnancy =
by her married lover)
Naomi Mitchison, _We Have Been Warned_ (Dionne, married with several =
children and concerned about the the uncertain political future, wonders =
whether it is self-indulgent to have another child, contemplates =
abortion, but eventually decides to go ahead and have the child - her =
discussions with her husband indicate that the procedure would have been =
to go abroad somewhere)
AJ Cronin, _The Citadel_ (passing allusion to fashionable Harley St =
society doctor making a good deal of his income from 'curettage')
Dame Alex Meynell, autobiography, _Public Servant Private Woman_, =
mentions that for the unmarried sexually active woman of the interwar =
years (like her) this was always on the cards - =A3100 in a discreet =
nursing home.
Any further references very gratefully received.
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
website http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 12:41:41 +0100
From: Ianthe <ianthe@duende.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: 19th Century Pornography
Re: the topic of 19th Century Pornography --
_Call for information_:
Leonard Smithers -- A key figure of the English 1890s, he
published many books that more conventional publishers
would not touch - ranging from the works of Symonds,
Dowson, Beardsley and Wilde through to outright pornography.
Oscar Wilde described him thus:
"He is usually in a large straw hat, has a blue tie delicately
fastened with a diamond brooch of the impurest water - or
perhaps wine, as he never touches water: it goes to his head at
once. His face, clean-shaven as befits a priest who serves at
the altar whose God is Literature, is wasted and pale - not with
poetry but with poets, who he says, have wrecked his life by
insisting on publishing with him. He loves first editions,
especially by women. Little girls are his passion. He is the
most learned erotomaniac in Europe. He is also a delightful
companion..."
"Little girls are his passion" - does anyone know more ?
Yours
--
Ianthe Duende
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From: "Robin Hood" <mozowin@gtw.net>
Subject: Re: 19th Century Pornography
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 13:27:24 -0000
-----Original Message-----
From: Ianthe <ianthe@duende.demon.co.uk>
To: Histsex:For historians of sexuality <histsex@listbot.com>
Date: Sunday, September 26, 1999 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: 19th Century Pornography
>Histsex:For historians of sexuality -
http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
>
>Re: the topic of 19th Century Pornography --
>
>_Call for information_:
>
>Leonard Smithers -- A key figure of the English 1890s, he
>published many books that more conventional publishers
>would not touch - ranging from the works of Symonds,
>Dowson, Beardsley and Wilde through to outright pornography.
>
>Oscar Wilde described him thus:
>
>"He is usually in a large straw hat, has a blue tie delicately
>fastened with a diamond brooch of the impurest water - or
>perhaps wine, as he never touches water: it goes to his head at
>once. His face, clean-shaven as befits a priest who serves at
>the altar whose God is Literature, is wasted and pale - not with
>poetry but with poets, who he says, have wrecked his life by
>insisting on publishing with him. He loves first editions,
>especially by women. Little girls are his passion. He is the
>most learned erotomaniac in Europe. He is also a delightful
>companion..."
>
>"Little girls are his passion" - does anyone know more ?
>
>Yours
>--
>Ianthe Duende
>
>
Publisher to the Decadents : Leonard Smithers in the Careers of Beardsley,
Wilde, Dowson
by James G. Nelson, Peter Mendes is available at Amazon.com for $19.95.
Robin
________________________________________________________________
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 20:58:12 +0100
From: Ianthe <ianthe@duende.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: 19th Century Pornography
In message <000401bf0823$06cc67c0$68fc21d0@oemcomputer>, Robin Hood
<mozowin@gtw.net> writes
>Publisher to the Decadents : Leonard Smithers in the
>Careers of Beardsley, Wilde, Dowson by James G. Nelson,
>Peter Mendes is available at Amazon.com for $19.95.
Many thanks - but it's not published until February 2000 :(
--
Ianthe Duende
________________________________________________________________ From: "jayD" <jaysd@mistral.co.uk>
Subject: abortion
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 09:53:49 +0100
Lesley -
This may not be directly relevant but in _Payment in Full_ by Elizabeth
Carfrae published by Mills & Boon in 1929 the heroine, who has been forced
by her economic circumstances to marry a much older man she does not love,
has a stillbirth. After an adulterous affair with the man she does love she
bears a child. During her pregnancy she is confident that this time
everything will go well because she loves the father of the baby. This
seems to be a conscious or unconscious theme of M&Bs - if the hero and
heroine love or are going to love one another the baby survives, if not it
dies! I have never come cross an abortion, but nature certainly is
convenient.
There's a book by Constance M. Evans, _Life Comes to Mary Willard_ (1943)
which I only skimmed as it was outside the parameters I had set myself, in
which the heroine helps a woman who has an illegitimate child - there may
be a mentin of abortion in that.
There are a couple of stories about abortion in Angela Holdsworth's _Out of
the Doll's House_ (BBC 1988).
There's an abortion in _The Carpetbaggers_ but that is American of course -
I mention it because I remember reading it in the early 60s at school in
brown paper covers so the staff wouldn't confiscate it!
When was _Up the Junction_? If I remember correctly there's a back street
abortion in that.
j
________________________________________________________________
From: "Dr Gail Hawkes" <G.Hawkes@mmu.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:08:37 +0100
Subject: Re: Conference
Greeetings to all on the Histsex list. I am a new member and
delighted to be so! Responding to the query about the Sexual
Diversity and Human Rights Conference in Manchester : I was the
organiser of it so would be pleased to help with any queries about
papers etc.
Best wishes,
Gail Hawkes
Dr Gail Hawkes
Department of Sociology
Manchester Metropolitan University
Tel: +44 (0) 161 247 3464
Fax. +44 (0) 161 247 6321
________________________________________________________________
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 12:08:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David F. Greenberg" <dg4@is3.nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: Representations of abortion,early C20th England
Victoria Greenwood wrote a book on abortion in England (I believe it was
called ABORTION IN DEMAND) that may be useful. - David Greenberg,
Sociology Department, New York University, New York, NY
________________________________________________________________
From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Representations of abortion,early C20th England
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 20:09:37 +0100
>Victoria Greenwood wrote a book on abortion in England (I believe it was
>called ABORTION IN DEMAND)
Thanks - I haven't come across this one - neither Brookes, _Abortion in
England, 1900-1967_, nor Hindell and Simms, _Abortion Law Reformed_ gives
much attention to literary representations, as opposed to
political/legal/medical discourse and struggles.
I thought of some more examples myself today:
The pills Lil took 'to bring it off' in _The Waste Land_
In Mary Renault's first, contemporary, novel, the central character is a
nurse and has access to the steroid stilboestrol when she finds herself
pregnant
I have a vague recollection of a gin, hot baths and old woman episode in
Sillitoe's _Saturday Night and Sunday Morning_ - the hero's married lover.
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
website http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
________________________________________________________________
From: "Dr Gail Hawkes" <G.Hawkes@mmu.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 10:25:33 +0100
Subject: Re: abortion
Dear Lesley,
What about the L-Shaped Room? It was a movie but also a book. Also,
'Alfie' the movie of the '60's, and The Girl with Green Eyes, with
Rita Tushingham - Any good?
Best wishes,
Gail
Dr Gail Hawkes
Department of Sociology
Manchester Metropolitan University
Tel: +44 (0) 161 247 3464
Fax. +44 (0) 161 247 6321
________________________________________________________________
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:56:14 -0300
From: Michael Manson <mmanson@uccb.ns.ca>
Subject: race and penis size
The study that is going on in Vancouver is not really new, nor, of course
is the racism that may inform the study's assumptions and its conclusions.
In the mid-1980s Phillipe Rushton at the University of Western Ontario came
out with a study that claimed a relationship between race, penis size and
intelligence. That study, too, created a tidal wave of response among
academics and non-academics alike and created an intense debate at the
university.
Michael Manson, English
mmanson@uccb.ns.ca
English
University College of Cape Breton
Box 5300
Sydney, Nova Scotia B1P 6L2
(902) 563-1244
FAX (902) 562-0119
"Stand the gaffe"
________________________________________________________________
From: "Chris Willis" <chris@chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Representations of abortion,early C20th England
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 12:08:12 +0100
Hi!
Christianna Brand's murder mystery "London Particular" is about a girl who
tries desperately to get an abortion at a time when it was still illegal
Winifred Holtby's wonderful "South Riding" includes a passage in which a
women who's got an unwanted pregnancy and contemplates an illegal abortion
but is too scared. (Book 5, Chapter 1). Her need for an abotion is
underlined by the situation of her neighbours - a large, motherless family
whose mother died in childbirth, after being warned that having another
child would kill her.
All the best
Chris
=========================================
Chris Willis
English Dept
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX
Chris@chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk
http://www.chriswillis.freeserve.co.uk/
________________________________________________________________
From: "Lesley Hall" <lesleyah@primex.co.uk>
Subject: Re: abortion
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 18:52:36 +0100
Gail:
Thanks for the suggestions. It's so long since I've read _L-Shaped Room_
however - does she try to get an abortion and fail?
as she ends up going through with the pregnancy and keeping the child I
have it mentally catalogued as forming part of that 1960s single motherhood
cycle, eg Drabble's _The Millstone_.
Lesley
Lesley Hall
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
website http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
________________________________________________________________
Subject: Vatican fooling around
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:55:41 -0800
From: "andrei-f" <andrei-f@goplay.com>
Hello,
Are there any good books out there on the sex life of the popes,
especially the ones who dabbled in male love?
Thanks,
Andrei
________________________________________________________________
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 02:11:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Firas Al Tamimi <firas70@yahoo.com>
Subject: Pictures
Any pic's for the sex life in the midle centuries .. in
Europe or the Midle East ?
Firas
________________________________________________________________
From: "Robin Hood" <mozowin@gtw.net>
Subject: Re: Pictures
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:52:07 -0000
-----Original Message-----
From: Firas Al Tamimi <firas70@yahoo.com>
To: Histsex:For historians of sexuality <histsex@listbot.com>
Date: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 12:35 PM
Subject: Pictures
>Histsex:For historians of sexuality -
http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah
>
>Any pic's for the sex life in the midle centuries .. in
>Europe or the Midle East ?
>
>Firas
Hi, I have several erotic pics from the middle ages as well as ancient and
modern times. I can attach them to messages to the group, if there is a
demand for it!
Robin Hood
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Date: 29 Sep 1999 19:15:03 -0000
From: "Histsex:For historians of sexuality" <histsex-owner@listbot.com>
Subject: Attachments: warning
Unfortunately, Listbot doesn't seem able to handle attachments, so PLEASE
do not send messages with attachments to the list. If anyone is interested
in Robin Hood's offer perhaps you could arrange to do so in private e-mail.
Lesley Hall
histsex-owner@listbot.com
lesleyah@primex.co.uk
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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 21:46:14 +0100
From: Gert Hekma <hekma@pscw.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: 19th Century Pornography
Chris,
have also a look at the second volume of Sexual Cultures in Europe, ed. by
Hall, Eder and me (1999), where Dorelies Kraakman has an overview article
on pornography, and an interesting argument. She has also a full-length
book (in Dutch) that is quoted in her article.
Gert Hekma
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Subject: Re: Pictures
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 19:33:13 -0800
From: "andrei-f" <andrei-f@goplay.com>
>>Any pic's for the sex life in the midle centuries .. in
>>Europe or the Midle East ?
>>
>>Firas
Firas, If you have not already done so, check the site I am editing,
The Androphile Project - http://www.androphile.org
Also, check back over the next month or so. We will be adding a bunch
of new pictures in the near future, from India and from China, which
so far have not been represented, as well as a bunch more from
ancient Greece and from imperial Rome.
A.
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From: "Lucas Brandão" <spocky_brandao@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Pictures
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:56:53 EST
Robin,
I'm interested in the pics you get. Can you attach some to me?
greetings
Lucas
________________________________________________________________ From: "Margaretta Jolly" <jolly@moa.u-net.com>
Subject: Re: Vatican fooling around
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 01:17:22 +0100
Hawthorne, Nigel. _Sex Lives of the Popes: An Irreverent Expose of the
>Bishops of Rome from St. Peter to the Present Day. 1996.
>
>Hope that helps. (though not serious I gather)
>
Margaretta
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From: HayGirl99@aol.com
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 18:50:16 EDT
Subject: Re: Pictures
Robin,
I'm interested too. I'd really appreciate it if you could attach and
send them to me.
Thanks!
Lori