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Colonial History, Early America, Nineteenth Century and U.S. West Kathleen Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (1996). Nancy F. Cott, “Passionlessness: An Interpretation of Victorian Sexual Ideology, 1790- 1850,” in Women and Health in America, ed. Judith Walzer Leavitt (University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), 57-69. Ramon Gutierrez, When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 (Stanford University Press, 1991). Karen V. Hansen, “No Kisses Is Like Youres: An Erotic Friendship between Two African- American Women During the Mid-Nineteenth Century,” Gender & History 7 (August 1995). Martha Hodes, Sex Love Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History (New York University Press, 1999), intro. Susan Lee Johnson, Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush (Norton, 2000). Walter Johnson, “The Slave Trader, the White Slave, and the Politics of Racial Determination in the 1850s,” Journal of American History (June 2000), 13-38. Anne McClintock, Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (Routledge, 1995). Pablo Mitchell, Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920 (2005). Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton, “Visible Bodies: Power, Subordination and Identity in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World,” Journal of Social History 39:1 (Fall 2005), 39-66. Jennifer L. Morgan, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). Peggy Pascoe, Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939 (Oxford University Press, 1990). Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, “Davy Crockett as Trickster: Pornography, Liminality, and Symbolic Inversion in Victorian America” Smith-Rosenberg, ed., Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America (Oxford University Press, 1985). Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, “The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America,” in Women and Health in America, ed. Judith Walzer Leavitt (University of Wisconsin Press, 1984), 70-89. Carolyn Sorisio, “The Spectacle of the Body: Torture ad the Antislavery Writing of Lydia Marie Child and Francis E.W. Harper,” Modern Language Studies 30:1 (Spring 2000), 45-66. Charlotte Sussman, “Women and the Politics of Sugar, 1792,” Representations 48 (Autumn 1994), 48-69. Ronald G. Walters, “The Erotic South: Civilization and Sexuality in American Abolitionism,” American Quarterly 25:2 (May, 1973), 177-201. Deborah Gray White, A’rn’t I A Woman? Female Slaves in the Plantation South (Norton, 1985). Modernity/Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Ruth M. Alexander, The “Girl Problem”: Female Sexual Delinquency in New York, 1900–1930 (1995). Tony Ballantyne and Antoinette Burton, eds., Bodies in Contact: Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History (Duke University Press, 2005), “Introduction” and selected essays. Gail Bederman, Manliness & Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 (University of Chicago Press, 1995). Laura L. Behling, The Masculine Woman in America, 1890-1935 (2001). Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico (University of California Press, 2003). George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 (New York: Basic Books, 1994). Nancy F. Cott, The Grounding of Modern Feminism (Yale University Press, 1987). Brian Donovan, White Slave Crusades: Race, Gender, and Anti-vice Activism, 1887- 1917 (2006). Lisa Duggan, Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity (2000). Nan Enstad, Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (1999). Pamela Haag, Consent: Sexual Rights and the Transformation of American Liberalism (Cornell University Press, 1999). Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Daniel Ames and the Women’s Campaign Against Lynching (Columbia University Press, 1979). Daniel Hurewitz, Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics (University of California Press, 2007). Paul A. Kramer, “The Darkness That Enters the Home: The Politics of Prostitution During the Philippine-American War,” in Ann Laura Stoler, ed., Haunted by Empire: Geographies of Intimacy in North American History (2006). Joanne Meyerowitz, Women Adrift: Independent Wage Earners in Chicago, 1880–1930 (1988). Kevin Mumford, Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century (1997). Kathy Peiss, Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York (1986). E. Anthony Rotundo, American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era (New York: Basic Books, 1993). Christina Simmons, “Modern Sexuality and the Myth of Victorian Repression.” In Gender and American History since 1890, ed. Barbara Melosh (1993). Ann Laura Stoler, Race and Education of Desire: Foucault’s History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things (Duke University Press, 1995). Alexandra Minna Stern, Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America (2005). Andrea Tone, Devices and Desires: A History of Contraception in America (2001). Sharon R. Ullman, Sex Seen: The Emergence of Modern Sexuality in America (University of California Press, 1997). Martha Vicinus, Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928 (University of Chicago Press, 2004). Alys Eve Weinbaum, Wayward Reproductions: Genealogies of Race and Nation in Transatlantic Modern Thought (Duke University Press, 2004), intro and conclusion. Mark Wild, “Red Light Kaleidoscope: Prostitution and Ethnoracial Relations in Los Angeles, 1880-1940,” Journal of Urban History 28 (2002): 720-742.

Women’s Movements, Gender, and Trans/Gender Jeanne Boydston, “Gender as a Question of Historical Analysis,” forthcoming article. Judith P. Butler, Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (1993), intro. Judith P. Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990), intro. Susan Cahn, Coming On Strong: Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Women’s Sport (1994), intro and conclusion. Kathleen Canning, “The Body As Method? Reflections on the Place of the Body in Gender History,” Gender & History 11:3 (November 1999), 499-513. Alice Echols, Daring to be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967-1975 (University of Minnesota Press, 1989). Anne Enke, Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism (Duke University Press, 2007). Cynthia Enloe, Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives (University of California Press, 2000). Marjorie B. Garber, Vested Interest: Cross Dressing and Cultural Anxiety (New York: Harper Perennial, 1993). Jane F. Gerhard, Desiring Revolution: Second-Wave Feminism and the Rewriting of American Sexual Thought, 1920 to 1982 (Columbia University Press, 2001). Judith Halberstam, Female Masculinity (Duke University Press, 1998). Donna Haraway, Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science (Routledge, 1990). Clare Howell, Joan Nestle, and Riki Wilchins, GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary (Los Angeles: Alyson Books, 2002). Roger N. Lancaster and Micaela Di Leonardo, eds., The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy (Routledge, 1997). Emily Martin, “The End of the Body?” in Roger N. Lancaster and Micaela Di Leonardo, The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy (Routledge, 1997). Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (2002). Jennifer Nelson, Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement (2003). Esther Newton, Mother Camp: Female Impersonators in America (Prentice Hall, 1972). Gayle Rubin, “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of Sex,” in Rayna R. Reiter, ed., Toward an Anthropology of Women (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1975). Joan W. Scott, Gender and the Politics of History (Columbia University Press, 1993, revised edition). Johanna Schoen, Choice & Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in Public Health and Welfare (University of North Carolina Press, 2005). Rickie Solinger, Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade (Routledge, 1992). Susan Stryker and Stephen Whittle, eds., The Transgender Studies Reader (Routledge, 2006). David Valentine and Riki Anne Wilchins, “One Percent on the Burn Chart: Gender, Genitals, and Hermaphrodites With Attitude,” Social Texts 52/53, v. 15, nos. 3 & 4 (Fall/Winter 1997), 215-222.

Race Theory, Queer Theory Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Berkeley: Third World Press, 2002 (third edition)), especially “Between the Lines: On Culture, Class, and Homophobia.” Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner, “Sex in Public,” Critical Inquiry: Intimacy No. 2 (Winter 1998), 547-566. Hazel Carby, “It Jus Be’s Dat Way Sometime: The Sexual Politics of Women’s Blues,” in Robert G. O’Meally, ed., The Jazz Cadence of American Culture (Columbia University Press, 1998). Hazel Carby, “Policing the Black Woman’s Body in the Urban Context.” Critical Inquiry 18 (1992): 738-755. John Champagne, The Ethics of Marginality: A New Approach to Gay Studies (University of Minnesota Press, 1995). George Chauncey, “The Queer History and Politics of Lesbian and Gay Studies,” in Queer Frontiers: Millenial Geographies, Genders, and Generations, ed. Joseph A. Boone (Madison: UW Press, 2000). Cheryl Clarke, “Living the Texts Out: Lesbians and the Uses of Black Women’s Traditions,” in Abena Busia and Stanlie James, eds., Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women (Routledge, 1993). Cathy J. Cohen, “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?” in GLQ 3 (1997), 437-465. Combahee River Collective, “A Black Feminist Statement,” in Linda Nicholson, ed., The Second Wave: A Reader in Feminist Theory (Routledge, 1997). Douglas Crimp, ed., AIDS: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Activism (MIT Press, 1993). Samuel Delany, Times Square Red, Times Square Blue (New York University Press, 1999). John D’Emilio, Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University (Routledge, 1992). Lisa Duggan and Nan D. Hunter, Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture (Routledge, 1995), especially “III: Sexual Dissent, Activism, and the Academy.” Roderick A. Ferguson, Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (University of Minesota Press, 2004). Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality (1990). Diana Fuss, ed., Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories (Routledge, 1991). David M. Halperin, “Is There A History of Sexuality?” in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, eds. Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, David M. Halperin (New York: Routledge, 1993), 416-431. Evelynn M. Hammonds, “Black (W)holes and the Geometry of Black Female Sexuality.” Differences: Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 6, no. 3(1994). Donna Haraway, “The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inapproriate/d Others,” in Cultural Studies, ed. Lawrence Grossberg, et al (1992). Evelyn Brooks Higgenbotham, “African American Women’s History and the Metalanguage of Race.” Signs 17 (Winter 1992): 251—72. bell hooks, “Selling Hot Pussy: Representations of Black Female Sexuality in the Cultural Marketplace,” in bell hooks, Black Looks: Race and Representation (Boston: South End Press, 1992). Christopher James, “Denying Complexity: The Dismissal and Appropriation of Bisexuality in Queer, Lesbian, and Gay Studies,” in Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason, eds., Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology (New York University Press, 1996). E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson, eds., Black Queer Studies: An Anthology (Duke University Press, 2005). Audre Lorde, “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” in Sister Outsider (The Crossing Press, 1984). Carolyn “Biddy” Martin, “Sexualities Without Genders and Other Queer Utopias (1994). Jose Esteban Munoz, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 1999), “Preface” and “Introduction.” Esther Newton, ed., Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas (Duke University Press, 2000). Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.” In Blood, Bread, and Poetry (1980). Paula C. Rust, “Sexual Identity and Bisexual Identities: The Struggle for Self-Description in a Changing Landscape,” in Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason, eds., Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology (New York University Press, 1996). Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley: U of C Press, 1990). Laurence Senelick, “Private Parts in Public Places,” in William R. Taylor, ed., Inventing Times Square: Commerce and Culture at the Crossroads of the World (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1991). Michael Warner, The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life (New York: Free Press, 1999). Michael Warner, ed., Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory (University of Minnesota Press, 1993), especially Intro.

Gay History Steven Angelides, A History of Bisexuality (University of Chicago Press, 2001). Amber Ault, “Hegemonic Discourse in an Oppositional Community: Lesbian Feminist Stigmatization of Bisexual Women,” in Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason, eds., Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology (New York University Press, 1996). Allan Berube, Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II (Free Press, 2001). Peter Boag, Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest (University of California Press, 2003). Nan Alamilla Boyd, Wide Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965 (2003). Peter Braunstein, “‘Adults Only:’ The Construction of an Erotic City in New York during the 1970s,” in America in the Seventies, ed. Beth Bailey and David Farber (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004). George Chauncey, Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinius, Hidden From History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past (1989). John D’Emilio, “Dreams Deferred, in Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University (Routledge, 1992). John D’Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America (New York: Harper & Row, 1988). John D’Emilio, Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin (New York: Free Press, 2003). Martin Duberman, Stonewall (Plume, 1993). Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in the Twentieth Century (1991). Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (2000), first two chapters.. Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues (Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1993). Estelle B. Friedman, “The Prison Lesbian: Race, Class, and the Construction of the Aggressive Female Homosexual, 1916-1965,” in Martha Hodes, ed., Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History (1999), 423-443. John Gerassi, The Boys of Boise: Furor, Vice and Folly in an American City (University of Washington Press, 2001). Post-45 David Higgs, ed., Queer Sites: Gay Urban Histories since 1600 (London; New York: Routledge, 1999). John Howard, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History (University of Chicago Press, 2001). Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (Avon Books, 1976), especially “Introduction.” Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community (1993). Regina Kunzel, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality (University of Chicago Press, 2008). Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (CA: The Crossing Press, 1982). Eric Marcus, Making History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights (New York: Perennial, 2002). Joan Nestle, ed., The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader (Boston: Alyson Books, 1992). Esther Newton, Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America’s First Gay and Lesbian Town (Boston: Beacon Press, 1995) introduction. Leila J. Rupp, Desired Past: A Short History of Same-sex Love in America (1999). Siobhan Somerville, excerpt from “Queering the Color Line.” Amanda Udis-Kessler, “Identity/Politics: Historical Sources of the Bisexual Movement,” in Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason, eds., Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Anthology (New York University Press, 1996). Urvashi Vaid, Virtual Equality: The Mainstreaming of Gay & Lesbian Liberation (Anchor Books, 1995). David Valentine, Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category (Duke University Press, 2007).

Migrations, Diasporas, and Non-U.S. Histories Tomas Almaguer, “Chicano Men: A Cartography of Homosexual Identity and Behavior,” in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, eds. Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, David M. Halperin (New York: Routledge, 1993), 255-273. Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1999 (second edition)), especially chapters 1, 2, and 5. Laura Briggs, “Mother, Child, Race, Nation: The Visual Iconography of Rescue and The Politics of Transnational and Transracial Adoption.” Gender and History 15, no. 2 (2003): 179-200. Lionel Cantu, Jr., and Eithne Luibheid, eds., Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings (University of Minnesota Press, 2005). David L. Eng and Alice Y. Hom, eds., Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Temple University Press, 1998). James Green, Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth Century Brazil (University of Chicago, 1999). Don Kulick, Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (University of Chicago Press, 1998). Eithne Luibheid, Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border (University of Minnesota Press, 2002). Martin Manalansan, Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora (2003). Cherrie Moraga, “Queer Aztlan: The Re-Formation of Chicano Tribe,” in The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry (Boston: South End Press, 1993). Afsaneh Najmabadi, “Beyond the Americas: Are Gender and Sexuality Useful Categories of Historical Analysis?” Journal of Women’s History 18:1 (2006), 11-21. Afsaneh Najmabadi, Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity (University of California Press, 2005). Oyeronke Oyewumi, “Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African Subjects,” in Oyewumi, ed., African Gender Studies: A Reader (Palgrave, 2005). Cindy Patton and Benigno Sanchez Eppler, eds., Queer Diasporas (Duke, 2000). Erica Rand, The Ellis Island Snow Globe (Duke University Press, 2005). Nayan Shah, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (University of California Press, 2003). Ann Laura Stoler, Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule (University of California Press, 2002). Ji-Yeon Yuh, Beyond the Shadow of Camptown: Korean Military Brides in America (New York University Press, 2002).

Post-WWII Culture and Sexuality Mary Louise Adams, The Trouble With Normal: Post-War Youth and The Making of Heterosexuality (University of Toronto Press, 1997). Beth L. Bailey, From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth Century America (1989). Beth Bailey, Sex in the Heartland (1999). Wini Breines, Young, White, and Miserable: Growing Up Female in the Fifties (Boston: Beacon Books, 1992). Susan Cahn, Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling Age (2007). Margot Canaday, “Building a Straight State: Sexuality and Social Citizenship Under the 1944 G.I. Bill.” Journal of American History 90, no. 3 ( 2003): 935-57. Estelle Freedman, “‘Uncontrolled Desires’: The Response to the Sexual Psychopath, 1920- 1960.” Journal of American History 74, no.1 (1987): 83-106. David K. Johnson, The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Prosecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government (2004). Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (Basic Books, 1988). Leisa D. Meyer, Creating GI Jane: Sexuality and Power in the Women's Army Corps During World War II (1996). Joanne Meyerowitz, ed., Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in Post-War American, 1945-1960 (Temple University Press, 1994). Renee Romano, Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar Amer.ica (Harvard University Press, 2006). David Serlin, Replaceable You: Engineering the Body in Postwar America (2004). Weiss, Jessica. To Have and to Hold: Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change (University of Chicago Press, 2000).