Historicising Gender and Sexuality

Kevin P. Murphy is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform (2008), co-editor of Queer Twin Cities (2010), and co-editor of “Queer Futures,” a special issue of the Radical History Review (2008). Jennifer M. Spear is Assistant Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans (2009).

• Notes on Contributors vii IntroductionKEVIN P. MURPHY and JENNIFER M. SPEAR 11 Imagining Cihuacoatl: Masculine Rituals, Nahua Goddesses and the Texts of the TlacuilosPETE SIGAL 122 Power and Historical Figuring: Rachael Pringle Polgreen’s Troubled ArchiveMARISA J. FUENTES 383 Gender, Sexuality and the Formation of Racial Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Caribbean WorldBROOKE N. NEWMAN 594 Xing: The Discourse of Sex and Human Nature in Modern ChinaLEON ANTONIO ROCHA 775 Epistemic Modernity and the Emergence of Homosexuality in ChinaHOWARD CHIANG 1036 Overcoming ‘Simply Being’: Straight Sex, Masculinity and Physical Culture in Modern EgyptWILSON CHACKO JACOB 1327 Monitoring and Medicalising Male Sexuality in Semi-Colonial EgyptHANAN KHOLOUSSY 1518 The Volatility of Sex: Intersexuality, Gender and Clinical Practice in the 1950sSANDRA EDER 1669 ‘A Certain Amount of Prudishness’: Nudist Magazines and the Liberalisation of American Obscenity Law, 1947–58BRIAN HOFFMAN 18210 Cold War Conflicts and Cheap Cabaret: Sexual Politics at the 1975 United Nations International Women’s Year ConferenceJOCELYN OLCOTT 20711 Gender and Sexuality in Latina/o Miami: Documenting Latina Transsexual ActivistsSUSANA PENà229Index 247