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Journal of the History of Sexuality 16.2 (2007) 342-344

Books of Critical Interest
Ahmed, Sara. Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. Pp. 240. $74.95 (cloth); $21.95 (paper).
Albanese, Patrizia. Mothers of the Nation: Women, Families, and Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Europe. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. Pp. 224. $55.00 (cloth).
Aldrich, Robert, ed. Gay Life and Culture: A World History. New York: Universe/Rizzoli, 2006. Pp. 384. $49.95 (cloth).
Ali, Kecia. Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence. Oxford: Oneworld, 2006. Pp. 192. $40.00 (cloth); $12.99 (paper).
Aydemir, Murat. Images of Bliss: Ejaculation, Masculinity, Meaning. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. Pp. 384. $75.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Bamford, Sandra. Biology Unmoored: Melanesian Reflections on Life and Biotechnology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. 245. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).
Berco, Christian. Sexual Hierarchies, Public Status: Men, Sodomy, and Society in Spain's Golden Age. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Pp. 248. $55.00 (cloth).
Bergling, Tim. Chasing Adonis: Gay Men and the Pursuit of Perfection. New York: Haworth/Harrington Park, 2007. Pp. 296. $44.95 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).
Body, N. O. [Karl M. Baer]. Memoirs of a Man's Maiden Years. Trans. Deborah Simon. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. Pp. 160. $32.50 (cloth). Originally published in German in 1907.
Browning, Don S., and David A. Clairmont, eds. American Religions and the Family: How Faith Traditions Cope with Modernization and Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. Pp. 288. $45.00 (cloth). [End Page 342]
Chamberlain, Ann. A History of Women's Seclusion in the Middle East: The Veil in the Looking Glass. New York: Haworth/Harrington Park, 2006. Pp. 313. $39.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Clery, E. J. The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England: Literature, Commerce and Luxury. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pp. 256. $100.00 (cloth); $31.95 (paper).
Cocks, H. G., and Matt Houlbrook, eds. The Modern History of Sexuality. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. 288. $95.00 (cloth); $36.95 (paper).
Coffman, Christine E. Insane Passions: Lesbianism and Psychosis in Literature and Film. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 2006. Pp. 308. $49.95 (cloth).
Eisenstein, Zillah. Sexual Decoys: Gender, Race and War in Imperial Democracy. London: Zed Books, 2007. Pp. 256. $55.00 (cloth); $14.99 (paper).
Fantina, Richard, ed. Straight Writ Queer: Non-Normative Expressions of Homosexuality in Literature. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2006. Pp. 274. $45.00 (cloth).
Gallagher, Lowell, Frederick S. Roden, and Patricia Juliana Smith, eds. Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. 240. $74.95 (cloth).
Glad, John. Future Human Evolution: Eugenics in the Twenty-First Century. Schuylkill Haven, Pa.: Hermitage, 2006. Pp. 136. $12.00 (cloth).
Guy-Bray, Stephen. Loving in Verse: Poetic Influence as Erotic. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. Pp. 184. $45.00 (cloth).
Henrici, Jane. Doing Without: Women and Work after Welfare Reform. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006. Pp. 240. $45.00 (cloth).
Hoad, Neville. African Intimacies: Race, Homosexuality, and Globalization. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. Pp. 232. $60.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper).
Hurewitz, Daniel. Bohemian Los Angeles and the Making of Modern Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. 377. $29.95 (cloth).
Jeffreys, Elaine, ed. Sex and Sexuality in China. New York: Routledge, 2006. Pp. 240. $120.00 (cloth).
Kaplan, Louise J. Cultures of Fetishism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. 240. $39.95 (cloth).
Komisaruk, Barry R., Carlos Beyer-Flores, and Beverly Whipple. The Science of Orgasm. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Pp. 376. $25.00 (cloth).
Ladenson, Elisabeth. Dirt for Art's Sake: Books on Trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2007. Pp. 304. $29.95 (cloth). [End Page 343]
Langdon, Gabrielle. Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love, and Betrayal in the Court of Duke Cosimo I. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. Pp. 388. $85.00 (cloth).
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