Murphy / Spear Historicising Gender and Sexuality

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-4392-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Gender and History Special Issues

Historicising Gender and Sexuality features a diversecollection of essays that shed new light on the historicalintersections between gender and sexuality across time and space.
* Demonstrates both the particularities of specific formulationsof gender and sexuality and the nature of the relationship betweenthe categories themselves
* Presents evidence that careful and contextualised analysis ofthe shifting relationship of gender and sexuality illuminatesbroader historical processes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Murphy, Kevin P.

Spear, Jennifer M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction
KEVIN P. MURPHY and JENNIFER M. SPEAR 1
1 Imagining Cihuacoatl: Masculine Rituals, Nahua Goddesses andthe Texts of the Tlacuilos
PETE SIGAL 12
2 Power and Historical Figuring: Rachael PringlePolgreen's Troubled Archive
MARISA J. FUENTES 38
3 Gender, Sexuality and the Formation of Racial Identities inthe Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Caribbean World
BROOKE N. NEWMAN 59
4 Xing: The Discourse of Sex and Human Nature in ModernChina
LEON ANTONIO ROCHA 77
5 Epistemic Modernity and the Emergence of Homosexuality inChina
HOWARD CHIANG 103
6 Overcoming 'Simply Being': Straight Sex,Masculinity and Physical Culture in Modern Egypt
WILSON CHACKO JACOB 132
7 Monitoring and Medicalising Male Sexuality in Semi-ColonialEgypt
HANAN KHOLOUSSY 151
8 The Volatility of Sex: Intersexuality, Gender and ClinicalPractice in the 1950s
SANDRA EDER 166
9 'A Certain Amount of Prudishness': NudistMagazines and the Liberalisation of American Obscenity Law,1947-58
BRIAN HOFFMAN 182
10 Cold War Conflicts and Cheap Cabaret: Sexual Politics at the1975 United Nations International Women's YearConference
JOCELYN OLCOTT 207
11 Gender and Sexuality in Latina/o Miami: Documenting LatinaTranssexual Activists
SUSANA PENÃ 229
Index 247

Über Autor(innen)

Kevin P. Murphy is Associate Professor of History andAmerican Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the authorof Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politicsof Progressive Era Reform (2008), co-editor of Queer TwinCities (2010), and co-editor of "Queer Futures," aspecial issue of the Radical History Review (2008).
Jennifer M. Spear is Assistant Professor of History atSimon Fraser University. She is the author of Race, Sex, andSocial Order in Early New Orleans (2009).