Books of Critical Interest

Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I. Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Pp. 200. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Anderson, Penelope. Friendship’s Shadows: Women’s Friendship and the Politics of Betrayal in England, 1640–1705. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 2012. Pp. 291. $120.00 (cloth).

Arnold, Catharine. The Sexual History of London: From Roman Londinium to the Swinging City—Lust, Vice, and Desire across the Ages. New York: St. Martin’s, 2011. Pp. 384. $25.99 (cloth).

Barton, Bernadette. Pray the Gay Away: The Extraordinary Lives of Bible Belt Gays. New York: New York University Press, 2012. Pp. 304. $27.95 (cloth).

Belkin, Aaron. Bring Me Men: Military Masculinity and the Benign Façade of American Empire, 1898–2001. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. Pp. 224. $75.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper); $19.99 (ebook).

Bradley, Harriet. Gender. Cambridge, UK: Polity, 2012. Pp. 258. $22.95 (paper).

Chandra, Shefali. The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Pp. 275. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Chen, Mel Y. Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Pp. 297. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Chin, Angelina. Bound to Emancipate: Working Women and Urban Citizenship in Early Twentieth-Century China and Hong Kong. Baltimore, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2012. Pp. 279. $85.00 (cloth).

Copley, Antony. Music and the Spiritual: Composers and Politics in the 20th Century. London: Ziggurat, 2012. Pp. 354. $24.95 (paper).

Corvino, John, and Maggie Gallagher. Debating Same-Sex Marriage. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 304. $16.95 (paper).

Currier, Ashley. Out in Africa: LGBT Organizing in Namibia and South Africa. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Pp. 272. $75.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper).

Dabhoiwala, Faramerz. The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 484. $34.95 (cloth).

Dave, Naisargi N. Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Pp. 266. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

De la Croix, St. Sukie. Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago before Stonewall. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. Pp. 344. $29.95 (paper).

De Villiers, Nicholas. Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012. Pp. 248. $25.00 (paper).

Dinshaw, Carolyn. How Soon Is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Pp. 251. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. Pp. 373. $24.50 (paper); $18.99 (ebook).

Falk, Candace, ed. Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 3: Light and Shadows, 1910–1916. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012. Pp. 880. $65.00 (cloth).

Flood, Dawn Rae. Rape in Chicago: Race, Myth, and the Courts. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012. Pp. 256. $55.00 (cloth).

Foster, Thomas A., ed. Documenting Intimate Matters: Primary Sources for a History of Sexuality in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. 256. $20.00 (paper).

Garcia, Lorena. Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself: Latina Girls and Sexual Identity. Chicago: University of Illinois, 2012. Pp. 240. $75.00 (cloth); $24.00 (paper).

Hanna, Judith Lynne. Naked Truth: Strip Clubs, Democracy, and a Christian Right. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2012. Pp. 290. $55.00 (cloth); $24.94 (paper).

Karras, Ruth Mazo. Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Pp. 304. $49.95 (cloth).

Kim, Jongwoo Jeremy. Painted Men in Britain, 1868–1918. Williston, VT: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. 177. $99.95 (cloth).

Lamp, Walter. Biblical Sex: What the Bible Says and Doesn’t Say about Sex and Marriage. Reno, NV: Runninglight, 2012. Pp. 172. $14.99 (paper).

Legault, Marianne. Female Intimacies in Seventeenth-Century French Literature. Williston, VT: Ashgate, 2012. Pp. 250. $99.59 (cloth).

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