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Journal of the History of Sexuality 10.1 (2001) 156-158



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Alter, Joseph S. Gandhi's Body: Sex, Diet, and the Politics of Nationalism. Critical Histories, edited by David Ludden. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. Pp. xviii + 207. Cloth, $34.95.

Bancroft, John, ed. The Role of Theory in Sex Research. Vol. VI in The Kinsey Institute Series, edited by John Bancroft. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. Pp. ix + 366. Cloth, $49.95.

Berg, James J., and Chris Freeman, eds. The Isherwood Century: Essays on the Life and Works of Christopher Isherwood. With a foreword by Armistead Maupin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. Pp. xviii + 293. Cloth, $34.95.

Berlant, Lauren, ed. Intimacy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. 455. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $27.50.

Boone, Joseph A., et al., eds. Queer Frontiers: Millennial Geographies, Genders, and Generations. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. Pp. ix + 383. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $24.95.

Caulfield, Sueann. In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv + 311. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95.

Clift, Stephen, and Simon Carter, eds. Tourism and Sex: Culture, Commerce, and Coercion. Tourism, Leisure, and Recreation series, edited by Gareth Shaw and Allan Williams. London: Continuum, 2000. Pp. xiv + 297. Cloth, $90.95; paper, $28.95.

Coleman, Penny. Village Elders. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. Pp. xviii + 143. Cloth, $24.95.

Dean, Tim. Beyond Sexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xiv + 304. Cloth, $46.00; paper, $18.00.

Deutsch, Helen, and Felicity Nussbaum, eds. "Defects": Engendering the Modern Body. Corporealities: Discourses of Disability, edited by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. Pp. xi + 332. Cloth, $52.50; paper, $19.95.

Donovan, Leslie A. Women Saints' Lives in Old English Prose. Translated from Old English with Introduction, Notes, and Interpretive Essay by Leslie A. Donovan. Library of Medieval Women, edited by Jane Chance. Cambridge, England: D. S. Brewer, 1999. Pp. 142. Paper, $19.95.

Duggan, Lisa. Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000. Pp. 280. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95.

Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. New York: Basic Books, 2000. Pp. xii + 473. Cloth, $35.00.

Frank, Gelya. Venus on Wheels: Two Decades of Dialogue on Disability, Biography, and Being Female in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xv + 284. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $19.95.

Groneman, Carol. Nymphomania: A History. New York: W. W. Norton, 2000. Pp. xxiii + 238. Cloth, $24.95.

Hartog, Hendrik. Man & Wife in America: A History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. vii + 408. Cloth, $29.95.

Jankowski, Theodora A. Pure Resistance: Queer Virginity in Early Modern English Drama. New Cultural Studies, edited by Joan DeJean et al. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000. Pp. 283. Cloth, $46.50.

Kuzniar, Alice A. The Queer German Cinema. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. x + 314. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $19.95.

Laporte, Dominique. History of Shit. Translated by Nadia Benabid and Rodolphe el-Khoury, with an introduction by Rodolphe el-Khoury. A Documents Book. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000. Pp. xiii + 160. Cloth, $20.00.

McAleer, Joseph. Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv + 322. Cloth, $35.00.

McCulloch, Jock. Black Peril, White Virtue: Sexual Crime in Southern Rhodesia, 1902-1939. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. Pp. ix + 272. Cloth, $35.00.

MacDougall, Bruce. Queer Judgments: Homosexuality, Expression, and the Courts in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Pp. ix + 360. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95.

Moran, Jeffrey P. Teaching Sex: The Shaping of Adolescence in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. x + 281. Cloth, $27.95.

Murray, Stephen O. Homosexualities. Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture, edited by Gilbert Herdt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xiii + 507. Cloth, $38.00.

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