Books of Critical Interest

Abraham, Julie. Are Girls Necessary: Lesbian Writing and Modern Histories. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Pp. 240. $22.50 (paper).

Babayan, Kathryn, and Afsaneh Najmabadi, eds. Islamicate Sexualities: Translations across Temporal Geographies of Desire. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. 376. $19.95 (paper).

Bader, Michael. Male Sexuality: Why Men Don't Understand It—and Why Women Don't Either. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing, 2009. Pp. 168. $29.95 (cloth).

Bailey, Amanda. Flaunting: Style and the Subversive Male Body in Renaissance England. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Pp. 190. $65.00 (cloth).

Bonaccorso, Monica M. E. Conceiving Kinship: Assisted Conception, Procreation, and Family in Southern Europe. Herndon, Va.: Berghahn Books, 2008. Pp. 176. $80.00 (cloth); $27.00 (paper).

Callahan, Kevin J., and Sarah A. Curtis, eds. Views from the Margins: Creating Identities in Modern France. Pp. 287. $31.95 (paper).

Clark, Anna. Desire: A History of European Sexuality. New York: Routledge, 2008. Pp. 296. $31.95 (paper).

Coates, Patricia Walsh. Margaret Sanger and the Origin of the Birth Control Movement, 1910–1930: The Concept of Women's Sexual Autonomy. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2008. Pp. 284. $109.95 (cloth).

Corbett, Mary Jean. Family Likeness: Sex, Marriage, and Incest from Jane Austen to Virginia Woolf. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008. Pp. 280. $39.95 (cloth).

Epprecht, Marc. Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. Pp. 240. $39.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Fetner, Tina. How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Pp. 184. $22.50 (paper).

Geis, Robert. Same-Sex in Scripture. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, 2008. Pp. 190. $29.00 (paper).

Glave, Thomas, ed. Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. 416. $24.95 (paper).

Haggerty, George E., and Molly McGarry. A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pp. 478. $179.00 (cloth).

Karafyllis, Nicole C., and Gotlind Ulshofer. Sexualized Brains: Scientific Modeling of Emotional Intelligence from a Cultural Perspective. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008. Pp. 416. $50.00 (cloth).

Marsh, Margaret, and Wanda Ronner. The Fertility Doctor: John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. Pp. 374. $29.95 (cloth).

Munro, Vanessa E., and Marina Della Giusta. Demanding Sex: Critical Reflections on the Regulation of Prostitution. Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2008. Pp. 216. $99.95 (cloth).

Mutongi, Kenda. Worries of the Heart: Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 272. $50.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper).

Neal, Derek. The Masculine Self in Late Medieval England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Pp. 320. $68.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).

Reeser, Todd W., and Lewis C. Seifert, eds. Entre hommes: French and Francophone Masculinities in Culture and Theory. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2008. Pp. 289. $60.00 (cloth).

Scott, Joan Wallach, ed. Women's Studies on the Edge. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. 223. $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

Thiem, Jon. Rabbit Creek Country: Three Ranching Lives in the Heart of the Mountain West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2008. Pp. 448. $29.95 (cloth).

Williams, Linda. Screening Sex. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008. Pp. 424. $24.95 (paper).