Books of Critical Interest

Bell, Jonathan, ed. Beyond the Politics of the Closet: Gay Rights and the American State Since the 1970s. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. Pp. 280. $49.95 (cloth).

Borge, Jessica. Protective Practices: A History of the London Rubber Company and the Condom Business. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. Pp. 306. $39.95 (cloth).

Chitty, Christopher, and Christopher Nealon. Sexual Hegemony: Statecraft, Sodomy, and Capital in the Rise of the World System. Edited by Max Fox. Theory Q. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 240. $99.95 (cloth); $25.95 (paper).

Crawford-Lackey, Katherine, and Megan E. Springate, eds. Communities and Place: A Thematic Approach to the Histories of LGBTQ Communities in the United States. New York: Berghahn Books, 2020. Pp. 302. $135.00 (cloth).

Donovan, Brian. American Gold Digger: Marriage, Money, and the Law from the Ziegfeld Follies to Anna Nicole Smith. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 290. $95.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper); $22.99 (e-book).

Drinot, Paulo. The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru, 1850s–1950s. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 331. $90.00 (cloth); $31.99 (paper); $9.99 (e-book).

Drucker, Donna J. Contraception: A Concise History. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020. Pp. 264. $15.95 (paper).

Gentile, Patrizia. Queen of the Maple Leaf: Beauty Contests and Settler Femininity. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2020. Pp. 288. $89.95 (cloth).

Gieseking, Jen Jack. A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers. New York: New York University Press, 2020. Pp. 336. $89.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).

Heyam, Kit. The Reputation of Edward II, 1305–1697: A Literary Transformation of History. Gendering the Late Medieval and Early Modern World. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. Pp. 348. €109.00 (cloth).

McKinney, Cait. Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 304. $104.95 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).

Montez, Ricardo. Keith Haring's Line: Race and the Performance of Desire. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. Pp. 168. $89.95 (cloth); $23.95 (paper).

Pande, Ishita. Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891–1937. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Pp. 322. $99.00 (cloth).

Petrey, Taylor G. Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. Pp. 288. $90.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper).

Strimpel, Zoe. Seeking Love in Modern Britain: Gender, Dating and the Rise of "the Single." London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Pp. 240. $90.00 (cloth); $18.86 (paper); $24.25 (e-book).

Varnado, Christine. The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020. Pp. 336. $120.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).

Footnotes

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