Books of Critical Interest

Abraham, Julie. Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. Pp. 344. $29.95 (cloth).

Badgett, M. V. Lee. When Gay People Get Married: What Happens when Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage. New York: New York University Press, 2009. Pp. 320. $35.00 (cloth).

Bibler, Michael. Cotton's Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936-1968. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009. Pp. 312. $55.00 (cloth); $22.50 (paper).

Canaday, Margot. The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp. 296. $29.95 (cloth).

Crais, Clifton, and Pamela Scully. Sara Baatman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp. 248. $29.95 (cloth).

Dean, Tim. Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pp. $20.00 (paper).

Dunning, Stefanie K. Queer in Black and White: Interraciality, Same Sex Desire, and Contemporary African American Culture. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. Pp. 152. $49.95 (cloth).

Graves, Karen L. And They Were Wonderful Teachers: Florida's Purge of Gay and Lesbian Teachers. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009. Pp. 216. $65.00 (cloth); $20.00 (paper).

Katsulis, Yasmina. Sex Work and the City: The Social Geography of Health and Safety in Tijuana, Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. Pp. 174. $50.00 (cloth).

MacKell, Jan. Red Light Women of the Rocky Mountains. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2009. Pp. 458. $34.95 (cloth).

McWhorter, Ladelle. Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009. Pp. 440. $75.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

Mecca, Tommi Avicolli, ed. Smash the Church, Smash the State: The Early Years of Gay Liberation. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2009. Pp. 302. $18.95 (paper).

Miller, Monica. Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. Pp. 408. $89.95 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).

Neal, Bill. Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style. Lubbock: Texas Tech University, 2009. Pp. 356. $29.95 (cloth).

Penner, Barbara. Newlyweds on Tour: Honeymooning in Nineteenth-Century America. Durham: University of New Hampshire Press, 2009. Pp. 304. $55.00 (cloth).

Roughgarden, Joan. The Genial Gene: Deconstructing Darwinian Selfishness. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Pp. 272. $24.95 (cloth).

Sauerteig, Lutz D. H., and Roger Davidson, eds. Shaping Sexual Knowledge: A Cultural History of Sex Education in Twentieth-Century Europe. London: Routledge, 2009. Pp. 263. $128.00 (cloth).

Sharma, Pandley Bechan. Chocolate and Other Writings on Male Homoeroticism. Trans. Ruth Vanita. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009. Pp. 152. $69.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper).

Snyder, Lu Ann Faylor, and Phillip A. Snyder, eds. Post-Manifesto Polygamy:The 1899-1904 Correspondence of Helen, Owen, and Avery Woodruff. Logan: Utah State University Press, 2009. Pp. 280. $34.95 (cloth).

Tambe, Ashwini. Codes of Misconduct: Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. Pp. 208. $22.50 (cloth).

Thoma, Lev Mordechai, and Sven Limbeck. "Die sünde, der sich der tiuvel schamet in der helle": Homosexualität in der Kultur des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit. Ostfildern, Germany: Jan Thorbecke, 2009. Pp. 272. $53.00.

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