Books of Critical Interest

Bell, Leslie C. Hard to Get: 20-Something Women and the Paradox of Sexual Freedom. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. Pp. 274. $29.95 (cloth).

Black, Jason Edward, and Charles E. Morris III, eds. Harvey Milk: An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk’s Speeches and Writings. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. Pp. 256. $34.95 (paper).

Bromley, James M., and Will Stockton, eds. Sex before Sex: Figuring the Act in Early Modern England. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. Pp. 336. $82.50 (cloth); $27.50 (paper).

Carlson, Elof Axel. The 7 Sexes: Biology of Sex Determination. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013. Pp. 256. $35.00 (cloth); $29.99 (ebook).

Clymer, Jeffory A. Family Money: Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 204. $49.95 (cloth).

Cocks, Catherine. Tropical Whites: The Rise of the Tourist South in the Americas. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. Pp. 284. $59.95 (cloth).

Corvino, John. What’s Wrong with Homosexuality? New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 170. $22.95 (cloth).

Costello-Sullivan, Kathleen, ed. Carmilla: A Critical Edition by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2013. Pp. 168. $19.95 (paper).

Coviello, Peter. Tomorrow’s Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: New York University Press, 2013. Pp. 272. $75.00 (cloth); $24.00 (paper).

D’Emilio, John, and Estelle B. Freedman. Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. 536. $25.00 (paper).

Doan, Laura. Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality, and Women’s Experience of Modern War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Pp. 278. $27.50 (paper).

Egan, R. Danielle. Becoming Sexual: A Critical Appraisal of the Sexualization of Girls. Malden, MA: Polity, 2013. Pp. 200. $64.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).

Faderman, Lillian. Scotch Verdict: The Real-Life Story That Inspired “The Children’s Hour.” New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Pp. 320. $24.00 (paper); $23.99 (ebook).

Gilligan, Carol. Joining the Resistance. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons, 2013. Pp. 140. $19.95 (cloth); $12.95 (paper).

Goodlad, Lauren M. E., Lilya Kaganovsky, and Robert A. Rushing, eds. Mad Men, Mad World: Sex, Politics, Style & the 1960s. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. Pp. 432. $99.95 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

Green, Stephanie. The Public Lives of Charlotte and Marie Stopes. Willston, VT: Ashgate, 2013. Pp. 283. $99.00 (cloth).

Greven, David. Psycho Sexual: Male Desire in Hitchcock, De Palma, Scorsese, and Friedkin. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013. Pp. 311. $60.00 (cloth).

Hallett, Hilary A. Go West, Young Women! The Rise of Early Hollywood. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013. Pp. 326. $70.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

Harper, Kyle. From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. 316. $39.95 (cloth).

Jagose, Anamarie. Orgasmology. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. Pp. 280. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Jones, Timothy Willem. Sexual Politics in the Church of England 1857–1957. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 208. $110.00 (cloth).

Kessler, Sanford, and Traciel V. Reid. American Debates on Sexual Equality. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. Pp. 320. $130.00 (cloth); $39.95 (paper).

Landau, Emily Epstein. Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2013. Pp. 336. $39.95 (cloth).

Logan, Cheryl A. Hormones, Heredity, and Race: Spectacular Failure in Interwar Vienna. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2013. Pp. 256. $68.00 (cloth).

Lundblad, Michael. The Birth of a Jungle: Animality in Progressive-Era U.S. Literature & Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 240. $65.00 (cloth).

Mandler, Peter. Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013. Pp. 384. $40.00 (cloth).

Martinez, Ernesto Javier. On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012. Pp. 216. $70.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper); $22.95 (ebook).

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