...Rafael Walker “The Man Who Thought Himself a Woman” and Other Queer Nineteenth-Century Short Stories Looby Christopher , ed. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2016 . xxiv + 311 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 References Chase Richard...

...Peter Coviello What does sex radicalism look like—for queer theory but not only queer theory—in a critical dispensation tuned less to the liberatory promises of sex than to matters of biopower ? This article takes up Henry David Thoreau's vexed relation to the ascetic imperatives of nineteenth...

... that marked Zuma as a “buffoon,” “barbaric,” and less civilized than his “distinctly monogamous” hosts can be traced to nineteenth-century settler colonial regimes and their violent attempts at reordering the lands and peoples they sought to occupy and replace. The arrival of British settlers...

...Vanessa Agard-Jones Saint-Pierre and Sainte-Anne sit on opposite shores—both territorially and symbolically—of Martinique, a French territory in the Caribbean Sea. During the nineteenth century, Saint-Pierre was known as the “Sodom” of the Antilles, as a cosmopolitan city where decadence...

...Mary Zaborskis This essay examines the production of Native queer childhood in nineteenth- and twentieth-century boarding schools. I argue that the schools produced “sexual orphanings” in Native children, which was achieved through education and abuse that queered Native children's...

...Patrick R. O'Malley The cultural construction of Roman Catholicism in England shifted in the middle decades of the nineteenth century from being constituted as a series of acts to being understood as a subjectivity experienced as authentic interiority. Even as various British Victorian figures...

..., unknown parentage and incest—is foundational to the sexual economy of slavery. Rather than a taboo that finds heterosexual resolution, incest is a sexual construct of slavery that paradoxically enables the emergence of queer sexual and kinship affiliations. I ground my reading in the nineteenth-century...

...Edgar Fred Nabutanyi The late nineteenth-century Bugandan king Kabaka Mwanga is perhaps one of the most controversial Ugandan historical personalities because of the perceptions that have shaped and continue to shape how his sexuality is understood. The Kabaka’s sexuality, which has been placed...

... of social marginalization, reveling in upsetting good taste for laughs. Traversing literary studies and popular culture, this essay tells the story of bitchy luminaries in three historical scenes: the tart wit of nineteenth-century satirists Jane Austen, George Gordon Byron, and Oscar Wilde; classic...

... administration affect the political ecology of an entire archipelago? What insights can be gained by opening a dialogue between the interdisciplinary fields of political ecology and LGBTQ studies? This essay examines such questions through a late-nineteenth-century crackdown on “unnatural offences...

...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...

...Whitney Davis The essay presents a model of “queer family romance” (adapted from Freud's concept of family romance) in historical practices of collecting visual culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Though queer collections of visual culture and queer family romance are independent...

...Stephen Valocchi The scholarship on gay male social history identifies a shift that supposedly takes place in the landscape of same-sex desire, practice, subjectivities, and associations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. According to this historiography, these landscapes were...

...Karen Jacobs Annie Leibovitz's postmortem photograph of Susan Sontag in A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005 publicizes its subject in the same visual space that protects its privacy, writing over its contemporaneity with a series of more legible nineteenth-century and modernist visual codes, just...

...: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century Graham Robb London: Picador , 2003 . viii + 341 pp . Duke University Press 2005 Book Review TO BE AND TO HAVE The Rise of Queer Historicism Susan McCabe Deep Gossip Henry Abelove Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. xviii + 104...

..., however, at home with her lover, Lucy Anthony, she was as butch as she pleased. Shaw’s position points up a conflict that I have found ubiquitous in my recent work on late-nineteenth-century women whom we, in our era, would describe as lesbians and who were absolutely crucial in the movements...

...Kyla Schuller Tomorrow's Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America . Coviello Peter . New York : New York University Press , 2013 . xiii + 253 pp . © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 384 GLQ: A JOURNAL OF LESBIAN and GAY STUDIES fully traces...

... with insights into the different ways that Gilded Age individuals arranged their desiring and affec- tional lives. Nissen makes the valuable point that creating family ties was a para- mount concern for nineteenth-­century people, and those who principally desired someone of their own sex faced...

... with insights into the different ways that Gilded Age individuals arranged their desiring and affec- tional lives. Nissen makes the valuable point that creating family ties was a para- mount concern for nineteenth-­century people, and those who principally desired someone of their own sex faced...

... Age individuals arranged their desiring and affec- tional lives. Nissen makes the valuable point that creating family ties was a para- mount concern for nineteenth-­century people, and those who principally desired someone of their own sex faced the challenge of creating kin through nonbiologi...