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Journal of the History of Sexuality 11.3 (2002) 537-540



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Brisson, Luc. Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Trans. Janet Lloyd. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xiv + 195. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $16.95.

Brownell, Susan, and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, eds. Chinese Femininities, Chinese Masculinities: A Reader. Asia: Local Studies/Global Themes Series, ed. Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Kären Wigen, and Tue-Tam Ho Tai. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp. xiv + 460. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $24.95.

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Fiol-Matta, Licia. A Queer Mother for the Nation. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002. Pp. xxix + 269. Paper, $19.95.

Fischer, Kirsten. Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xii + 265. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $17.95.

Frost, Laura. Sex Drive: Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001. Pp. viii + 197. Cloth, $45.00; paper, $17.95.

Godbeer, Richard. Sexual Revolution in Early America. Gender Relations in the American Experience Series, ed. Joan Cashin and Ronald G. Walters. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. Pp. xii + 430. Cloth, $34.95.

Goldberg-Hiller, Jonathan. The Limits to Union: Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights. Law, Meaning, and Violence Series, ed. Martha Minow, Elaine Scarry, and Austin Sarat. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. Pp. x + 290. Cloth, $47.50.

Green, James N. Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil. Worlds of Desire Series, ed. Gilbert Herdt. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xiii + 408. Paper, $23.00.

Harvey, Philip D. The Government vs. Erotica: The Siege of Adam & Eve. Foreword by Nadine Strosser. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2001. Pp. 296. Cloth, $24.00.

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Kripal, Jeffrey J. Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism. Chicago: University of Chicago...

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