...Gordon Brent Ingram Duke University Press 2003 RETURNING TO THE SCENE OF THE CRIME Uses of Trial Dossiers on Consensual Male Homosexuality for Urban Research, with Examples from Twentieth-Century British Columbia Gordon Brent Ingram The transcripts of hearings and trials...

...Elizabeth Lundberg This essay examines restrictions on and opportunities for agency in Fledgling , Octavia Butler's 2005 science fiction vampire novel. Reading agency through three relational modes—belonging, trauma, and consensual nonconsent—it argues that Fledgling helps us critically consider...

... analyzes the relationship between the concept of perversion and liberal politics—a politics of individualism, liberty, and consent. As one book reveals, efforts to defend BDSM as “safe, sane, and consensual” participate in liberal political discourse, but certain aspects of BDSM also pressure connections...

...Kevin Lamb; Patrick Singy As a field, the history of sexuality is often divided into Foucauldians and anti-Foucauldians. This essay, which reviews four recent contributions to the field, begins by showing that Michel Foucault's own methodology is ambiguous. Broad scholarly consensus rightly holds...

...) force in postcolonial nationstates. It first briefly theorizes how compulsory homophobia has become a mandate of state-popular affinity in the postindependent era that conditions the possibility of pluralistic consensus in the postcolonial nation-state. Within this context, the author further explores...

...Ellen K. Feder In May 2006 the U.S. and European endocrinological societies published a consensus statement announcing a significant change in nomenclature. No longer would nineteenth-century variations on the term hermaphrodite , or the more newly introduced term intersex , be used in a medical...

... but consti- tutes one — exists the possibility for another kind of statement, one that seeks to disentangle its speaker from the assumed consensus that emanates from the per- formative utterance and its speaker. Rather than pay attention to the speaker of the performative...

... this apparent consensus that the teens were executed for being “gay” developed, despite significant reasons for doubt, I focus on how the images, in combination with an interpretation of antigay persecution, resonated emotionally with the secular sensibilities of activists. Ann...

... for Paediatric Endocrinology held a consensus meeting in Chicago that resulted in a hopeful degree of movement toward providing more psychosocial care, peer sup- port, truth telling, informed consent, and outcomes data.37 Also in 2005, a collective comprised mostly of the three...

... of gay men and women in mainstream media and allowed for the rise of an urban queer culture that confi dently took its place within the heterosexual national consensus. The “normalcy” of the community’s members and their “good citizenship” were emphasized, as was the fact that gays and lesbians were...

... to sell access to our bodies and our sexual labor is core to our rights of self-determination and bodily autonomy—an autonomy that is connected to our rights to abortion, gender-affirming care, drug consumption, and consensual BDSM relationships. Just as Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists have...

... just behind it and, say, the consensual brutalization of bodies. Though it would be absurd to argue that sadomasochism is the royal road to an economy of still unprogrammed pleasures, S/M raises, however crudely, important questions about the relation between pleasure and the exercise...

... argues that the political process engaged in by dominant black groups and media outlets that neglected to see AIDS as a black issue underlines the “qualified linked fate” of black people (xi). She contends that AIDS marks the dissolution of a consensus-based race politics that advocated a fully linked...

... Audley) and yet another servant (Henry Skipwith) testified that sex- ual intercourse between them had been arranged and even physically assisted by Castlehaven. Lady Audley described the affair as virtual, if not technical, rape; Skipwith claimed that it was consensual. They agreed...

... the amassed historical evidence proves overwhelming, making it futile to contest their claim that the normal has always been contested. There has been no histori- cal moment of unanimity or consensus about the normal and its usage; quite the contrary, resistance and critique of the normal has been with us...

... could reveal the hermaphrodite’s “true” sex. Dreger’s review of medical reports documents the nego- tiations among groups of medical men trying to reach consensus about the essen- tial sex signs. In a wonderful section titled “Tricky Genital Geography” she...

... homosexuals from engaging in acts of consensual sodomy.3 The Court stated that in 1791 “sodomy” “was forbidden by the laws of the original thirteen States,” that in 1868 “all but 5 of the 37 States in the Union had criminal sodomy laws,” and that, “until 1961, all 50 States outlawed...

... was an ideal form of resistance, attuned to the requirements of the cold war consensus, at least in its originary social-historical context.43 There are both surrender and resistance in these silences, in a relation not of either-or but of both-and. It is within this complicated nexus of what can...

... own. When Angelides writes something like, “the entire body of child sexual abuse research during the 1980s and 1990s leans on the presumption that normative, consensual sex between adults does not, or ought not, involve differential power relations,” one wonders why he must put it so superlatively...

... of methodological and theoretical approaches, in vibrant conversation with transnational cultural stud- ies, disability studies, critical race studies, and studies of empire and diaspora. At the same time, no consensus emerged in response to Love’s questions. Rubin lamented...