Books of Critical Interest

Abramson, Paul R., and Steven D. Pinkerton. With Pleasure: Thoughts on the Nature of Human Sexuality. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. Pp. x + 313. Paper, $19.95.

Bainbridge, David. The X in Sex: How the X Chromosome Controls Our Lives. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 205. Paper, $14.95.

Benthien, Claudia. Skin: On the Cultural Border Between Self and World. Trans. Thomas Dunlap. European Perspectives series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. Pp. 290. Paper, $19.50.

Bunzl, Matti. Jews and Queers: Symptoms of Modernity in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xii + 292. Paper, $24.95.

Cheney, Patrick, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. xix + 312. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $23.99.

Chernoff, John M. Exchange Is Not Robbery: More Stories of an African Bar Girl. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 448. Paper, $22.50.

Crawford, Katherine. Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France. Harvard History series, 145. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 297. Cloth, $49.95.

D'Emilio, John. Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. 568. Paper, $20.00.

Eadie, Jo, ed. Sexuality: The Essential Glossary. London: Hodder Headline Group, 2004. Pp. xv + 286. Paper, £19.99.

Evans, Roger Steven. Sex and Salvation: Virginity as a Soteriological Paradigm in Ancient Christianity. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2003. Pp. xvii + 187. Paper, $30.00.

Frisken, Amanda. Victoria Woodhull's Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. 240. Cloth, $37.50.

Goldhill, Simon. Love, Sex, and Tragedy: How the Ancient World Shapes Our Lives. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. 336. Cloth, $27.50.

Halkias, Alexandra. The Empty Cradle of Democracy: Sex, Abortion, and Nationalism in Modern Greece. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004. Pp. xv + 413. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95.

Harris, Ellen T. Handel as Orpheus: Voice and Desire in the Chamber Cantatas. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. Pp. xii + 430. Paper, $19.95.

Hawkes, Gail. Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture. Cambridge: Polity, 2004. Pp. vii + 207. Paper, $24.95.

Hubbs, Nadine. The Queer Composition of America's Sound: Gay Modernists, American Music, and National Identity. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Pp. xi + 282. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95.

Johnston, William. Geisha, Harlot, Strangler, Star: A Woman, Sex, and Morality in Modern Japan. Asia Perspectives series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2004. Pp. 272. Cloth, $29.50.

Kendall, Christopher N. Gay Male Pornography: An Issue of Sex Discrimination. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2004. Pp. 296. Cloth, $85.00; paper, $29.95.

Koven, Seth. Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. Pp. xvii + 399. Cloth, $29.95.

Lyons, Andrew P., and Harriet D. Lyons. Irregular Connections: A History of Anthropology and Sexuality. Critical Series in the History of Anthropology, edited by Regna Darnell and Stephen O. Murray. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 416. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $29.95.

Peniston, William A. Pederasts and Others: Urban Culture and Sexual Identity in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Haworth Gay and Lesbian Studies. New York: Harrington Park Press, 2004. Pp. 258. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95.

Perry, Ruth. Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture, 1748–1818. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. x + 466. Cloth, $80.00.

Robinson, Paul. Queer Wars: The New Gay Right and Its Critics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. Pp. 170. Cloth, $25.00.

Seymour, Claire. The Operas of Benjamin Britten: Expression and Evasion. Woodbridge, U.K.: Boydell and Brewer, 2004. Pp. x + 358. Cloth, $99.00.

Sommerville, Diane Miller. Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Pp. xiii + 411. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95.

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