Molly McGarry is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside, coauthor of Becoming Visible: An Illustrated History of Lesbian and Gay Life in Twentieth-Century America, and coeditor of A Companion to LGBT/Q Studies.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Mourning, Media, and the Cultural Politics of Conjuring the Dead 2. Indian Guides: Haunted Subjects and the Politics of Vanishing 3. Spectral Sexualities: Free Love, Moral Panic, and the Making of U.S. Obscenity Law 4. Mediomania: The Spirit of Science in a Culture of Belief and Doubt 5. Secular Spirits: A Queer Genealogy of Untimely Sexualities Notes Select Bibliography Index

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