e h Committeet on Lesbian and Gay History FallFall 2007 VVolumeolume 21, IssuIssuee 2 In This Issue CLGH Chair: 1 Chair’s Column Karen C. Krahulik, [email protected] Karen C. Krahulik Book Review Editor: 2 CLGH Panels and Events – 2008 AHA Meeting Ian Lekus, [email protected] 3 CLGH Name Change Newsletter Editor: Kevin P. Murphy, [email protected] 3 Reviews Patrick Moore, Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Chair’s Column Karen C. Krahulik Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality Gay Sex in the 70s. Director Joseph F. Lovett Welcome back to the CLGH for another Reviewed by Matt Johnson academic year of provocative events, papers, and announcements. Behind the scenes, the elected and M. Jacqui Alexander, Pedagogies of Crossing: appointed offi cers within CLGH have been busy Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred proposing and implementing new initiatives to Reviewed by Julian B. Carter strengthen our organization and its functions. You might notice, for example, that the layout of the George Chauncey, Why Marriage?: The History newsletter you are reading at this very moment is Shaping Today’s Debate Over Gay Equality Reviewed by Lisa Gayle Hazirjian different. Kevin Murphy, our dedicated newsletter editor, has made subtle but substantive changes to Steve Endean, Bringing Lesbian and Gay Rights the format and the content. Last spring he featured into the Mainstream: Twenty Years of Progress, Karl-Heinz Steinle (The Schwules Museum in Berlin) Vicki L. Eaklor, ed. Reviewed by Fred Fejes and Jennifer Tyburczy (The Leather Archives and Museum in Chicago). If you have ideas for future Estelle B. Freedman, ed., Feminism, Sexuality, issues, let us know and we will do our best to and Politics: Essays by Estelle B. Freedman incorporate fresh material. In the meantime, I’d Reviewed by Marcia M. Gallo like to draw your attention to the provocative set Matti Bunzl, Symptoms of Modernity:Modernity: JewsJews aandnd of reviews Ian Lekus has edited. The book review Queers in Late Twentieth-Century Vienna section is often lauded as the most engaging feature Reviewed by James W. Jones of the CLGH Newsletter. Marcia M. Gallo, Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the We will also be doing our best to recruit new Lesbian Rights Movement members to the CLGH. Most of us know at least one, Reviewed by Jennifer Brier two, three, maybe more historians who would like Gayatri Gopinath, Impossible Desires: Queer to join the CLGH, but simply never found themselves Diasporas and South Asian Public Culture in the right place at the right time. In the spring Reviewed by Sharon Marcus 2007 ballot, our membership voted to amend the Karen C. Krahulik, Provincetown: From Pilgrim CLGH by-laws to include the position of “Secretary.” Landing to Gay Resort Charles Upchurch, assistant professor at Florida Reviewed by Nan Alamilla Boyd State University, has agreed to fi ll this post and will Walter L. Williams and Yolanda Retter (eds.), take the lead on all facets of membership, including Gay and Lesbian Rights in the United States: our new dues schedule (which was approved via A Documentary History the spring 2007 ballot, but will be re-presented Reviewed by Terence Kissack in the spring 2008 ballot because the ’07 ballot Sharon Marcus, Between Women: Friendship, contained an error). Similarly, we have two new Desire and Marriage in Victorian England Governing Board members who have pushed us in Reviewed by Claire Potter new directions administratively. Please welcome Martin Meeker, the winner of the 2007 CLGH The CLGH website has been updated and has a new Boswell Award, and Susan Stryker, who holds the address: www.clghistory.org Ruth Wynn Woodward Endowed Chair at Simon Continued on Page 2 Fraser University, to the Governing Board. Martin is Chair: working with fellow board member, Horacio Roque Karen C. Krahulik, Brown University Ramírez, to reignite and revamp the CLGH website, Papers: Gay Power; David Eisenbach, Columbia University while Susan has teamed up with Lisa Hazirjian and Imagining a Gay World: The American Homophile Horacio to facilitate forthcoming discussions about a Movement in a Global Perspective; Craig Loftin, University possible CLGH name change. of Southern California Homo-Coming: Sexuality, Race, and Intimacy in the In consultation with the Governing Board, it was Japanese Writings of Yone Noguchi; Amy Sueyoshi, San my fearless (some might say foolish) decision to Francisco State University bring the motion for a name change back to the Comment: Howard Hsueh-Hao Chiang, Princeton University membership table. You’ll see details of how we intend to proceed inside this issue of “The CLGH 6:00-7:30 p.m. Omni, Governor’s Boardroom. Newsletter,” another title that may be worthy of CLGH and Radical History Review JointJoint ReceptionReception rethinking. Before turning the page, however, I have one more vital message. Martin B. Duberman will be Saturday, January 5 receiving a special award from the AHA this coming 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Hilton, Monroe West. January (offi cial announcement at the AHA), and Session 3, joint with the AHA. Before and after Kinsey: Sexual Science and Sexual the CLGH is working collaboratively with the Radical Medicine in Mid-Twentieth-Century United States History Review to honor this historichistoric occasioccasion.on. Chair: (Please note the special CLGH Friday night reception Lynn Gorchov, Denison Univ. in the AHA program). Board member, Mark Meinke, Papers: and I have been working on an exhilarating AHA/ Reading with Prok: Sources for Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual CLGH schedule of events, and we hope to see many of Behavior in the Human Male (1948); Donna J. Drucker, you there (details on p. 2)! Indiana Univ. Sex, Medicine, and “Doctor” Kinsey: The American Medical Profession and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953); Carolyn Herbst Lewis, Univ. of California Santa American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Barbara Washington, D.C., January 3-6, 2008. From Sick Desire to Normal Behavior: The Kinsey Reports, the Mental Health Profession, and the Contested Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Psychopathological Status of Homosexuality in Mid- Panels & Events Twentieth-Century America; Howard Hsueh-Hao Chiang, Princeton Univ. Friday, January 4 Comment: 9:30-11:30 a.m. Omni, Diplomat Ballroom. David H. Serlin, Univ. of California San Diego Session 1, joint with the AHA and the Coordinating Council for Women in History. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Marriott, Washington Room 6. Roundtable on Transnationalizing Histories of Women, Session 4, joint with the AHA. Gender and Sexuality: The View from the Journals Sex, Surgery, and History: Perspectives on Intersex from the Chair: Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century Antoinette Burton, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chair: Topics: Leah DeVun, Texas A & M The Global and the Intimate in the Women’s Studies Papers: Quarterly; Victoria Rosner, Texas A& M Medieval Hermaphrodites: Intersex in Medical, Legal, and Transnationalizing the Journal of Women’s History; Philosophical Discourse of the European Middle Ages; Irina Jean M. Allman, Washington Univ. in St. Louis Metzler, Univ. of Bristol Gender and History: Transnationalism in Translation; Intersexuality and “Corrective” Surgery in the Early Modern Michele Mitchell, New York University Period; Kathleen Long, Cornell Univ. Feminist Studies and Transnational Networks; Claire G. History for the Future: A Personal Account of Using History Moses, University of Maryland at College Park to Change the Medical Treatment of Intersex; Alice D. Forgiving Foucault: Transnationalizing the Journal of the Dreger, Northwestern Univ. History of Sexuality; Mathew Kuefl er, San Diego State Comment: Univ. Anne Enke, University of Wisconsin-Madison 12:15–1:15 p.m. Omni, Chairman’s Boardroom. 2:30-4:30 p.m. Marriott, Washington Room 6. CLGH Business Meeting Session 5, joint with the AHA. The Politics of Sexual Scandals across Time and Space 2:30-4:30 p.m. Omni, Forum Room. Chair: Session 2. Katherine B. Crawford, Vanderbilt Univ. American Gay Power in a Queer Modern World Fall 2007 2 Papers: Black Politics and the Campaign for Chicago’s Gay Rights Darkness in New Light New England: Punishing Bestial Acts Ordinance, 1973-88; Timothy Stewart-Winter, Univ. of in the 1790s; Doron Ben-Atar, Fordham Univ. and Richard Chicago D. Brown, Univ. of Connecticut Home, Church, and School: The Politics of “Straightness” in The Legal Scandal of “Personal Status” in French Algeria; Postwar Santa Clara County; Clayton Howard, University Judith Surkis, Harvard Univ. of Michigan Gossip, Scandal, and the Sexual Solicitation of Boys in Comment: Colonial Mexico; Zeb Tortorici, UCLA Karen C. Krahulik The Litmus Tests: The Role of Public Scandal and Race in Sexual Misconduct Cases in Colonial Ghana; Carina E. Ray, Fordham Univ. Comment: Katherine Crawford CLGH Name Change Response Requested 2:30-4:30 p.m. Marriott, Washington Room 4. Session 6. Legal Liberation? Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, and Since the inception of the Committee on Lesbian Race in Twentieth-Century U.S. Equal Rights Campaigns and Gay History in 1979, the scope of our members’ Chair: scholarship and the language of our fi elds of study Regina Kunzel, University of Minnesota have undergone signifi cant transformations. These Papers: shifts have prompted peer organizations—such “Into the Law”: The Odell Waller Case and the Early Civil as the MLA’s former Gay & Lesbian Caucus, now Rights Activism of Pauli Murray; Dayo F. Gore, University of Massachusetts at Amherst the GL/Q Caucus—to develop a new name that Defending a Psychopathic Gay Alien: Genealogies of Legal better represents the full scope of scholarship they Strategy in Boutilier v. the INS; Marc Stein, York University promote. The CLGH needn’t follow every academic Managing the Costs of Life: Feminism, Biopower, and trend, of course.