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  • Books of Critical Interest

Editor's Note.—The inclusion of a publication in this list neither assumes nor precludes its concurrent or subsequent review in JHS.

Banchoff, Thomas. Embryo Politics: Ethics and Policy in Atlantic Democracies. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012. Pp. 294. $35.00 (cloth).
Benadusi, Lorenzo. The Enemy of the New Man: Homosexuality in Fascist Italy. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. Pp. 424. $55.00 (cloth); $24.95 (e-book).
Berebitsky, Julie. Sex and the Office. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012. Pp. 376. $38.00 (cloth).
Boyd, Nan Alamilla, and Horacio N. Roque Ramirez, eds. Bodies of Evidence:The Practice of Queer Oral History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 294. $35.00 (paper).
Celello, Kristin. Making Marriage Work: A History of Marriage and Divorce in the Twentieth-Century United States. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Pp. 248. $31.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).
Chapman, Erin D. Prove It on Me: New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the 1920s. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. 189. $21.95 (paper).
Coontz, Stephanie. A Strange Stirring: "The Feminine Mystique" and American Women at the Dawn of the 1960s. New York: Basic Books, 2012. Pp. 256. $15.99 (paper).
Cornwall, Mark. The Devil's Wall: The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. 384. $39.95 (cloth).
Daub, Adrian. Uncivil Unions: The Metaphysics of Marriage in German Idealism & Romanticism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. Pp. 366. $35.00 (cloth).
Enterline, Lynn. Shakespeare's Schoolroom: Rhetoric, Discipline, Emotion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Pp. 208. $45.00 (cloth).
Hamilton, Carrie. Sexual Revolutions in Cuba: Passion, Politics, and Memory. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Pp. 320. $39.95 (cloth). [End Page 552]
Heath, Melanie. One Marriage under God: The Campaign to Promote Marriage in America. New York: New York University Press, 2012. Pp. 288. $75.00 (cloth); $24.00 (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).
Kovner, Sarah. Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012. Pp. 226. $50.00 (cloth).
Long, Michael G., ed. I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters. San Francisco: City Lights, 2012. Pp. 516. $19.95 (paper).
McEwen, Britta. Sexual Knowledge: Feeling, Fact and Social Reform in Vienna, 1900-1934. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012. Pp. 240. $90.00 (cloth).
McLelland, Mark. Love, Sex, and Democracy in Japan during the American Occupation. New York: Palgrave, 2012. Pp. 240. $85.00 (cloth).
McRuer, Robert, and Anna Mollow, eds. Sex and Disability. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Pp. 432. $94.95 (cloth); $26.95 (paper).
Parker, Andrew. The Theorist's Mother. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Pp. 200. $79.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper).
Schaffner, Anna Katharina. Modernism and Perversion: Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave, 2012. Pp. 315. $80.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper).
Schulman, Sarah. The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Pp. 192. $27.95 (cloth).
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. The Weather in Proust. Edited by Jonathan Goldberg. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. Pp. 340. $84.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).
Shimizu, Celine Parrenas. Straitjacket Sexualities: Unbinding Asian American Manhoods in the Movies. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012. Pp. 296. $75.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper); $22.95 (e-book).
Sigal, Pete. The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality and Ritual in Early Nahua Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. Pp. 361. $94.95 (cloth); $25.95 (paper).
Simon, Caroline J. Bringing Sex into Focus: The Quest for Sexual Integrity. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2012. Pp. 176. $15.00 (paper).
Thompson, Martha E., and Michael Armato. Investigating Gender: Developing a Feminist Sociological Imagination. Malden, MA: Polity, 2012. Pp. 350. $39.59 (paper).
Wise, Benjamin E. William Alexander Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter & Sexual Freethinker. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Pp. 368. $35.00 (cloth).
Zubiaurre, Maite. Cultures of the Erotic in Spain, 1898-1939. Nashville...

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