Murphy Kevin P. - Historicising Gender and Sexuality

Historicising Gender and Sexuality

Gender and History Special Issue Book Series

Gender and History , an international, interdisciplinary journal on the history of femininity, masculinity, and gender relations, publishes annual special issues which are now available in book form.

Bringing together path-breaking feminist scholarship with assessments of the field, each volume focuses on a specific subject, question or theme. These books are suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in history, sociology, politics, cultural studies, and gender and womens studies.

Titles in the series include:

Historicising Gender and Sexuality
Edited by Kevin P. Murphy and Jennifer M. Spear

Homes and Homecomings: Gendered Histories of Domesticity and Return
Edited by K. H. Adler and Carrie Hamilton

Gender and Change: Agency, Chronology and Periodisation
Edited by Alexandra Shepard and Garthine Walker

Translating Feminisms in China
Edited by Dorothy Ko and Wang Zheng

Visual Genders, Visual Histories: A special Issue of Gender & History
Edited by Patricia Hayes

Violence, Vulnerability and Embodiment: Gender and History
Edited by Shani DCruze and Anupama Rao

Dialogues of Dispersal: Gender, Sexuality and African Diasporas
Edited by Sandra Gunning, Tera Hunter and Michele Mitchell

Material Strategies: Dress and Gender in Historial Perspective
Edited by Barbara Burman and Carole Turbin

Gender, Citizenships and Subjectivities
Edited by Kathleen Canning and Sonya Rose

Gendering the Middle Ages: A Gender and History Special Issue
Edited by Pauline Stafford and Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker

Gender and History: Retrospect and Prospect
Edited by Leonore Davidoff, Keith McClelland and Eleni Varikas

Feminisms and Internationalism
Edited by Mrinalini Sinha, Donna Guy and Angela Woollacott

Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean
Edited by Maria Wyke

Gendered Colonialisms in African History
Edited by Nancy Rose Hunt, Tessie P. Liu and Jean Quataert

This edition first published 2011
Originally published as Volume 22, Issue 3 of Gender & History
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Historicising gender and sexuality / edited by Kevin P. Murphy, Jennifer M. Spear.
p. cm. (Gender and history special issue book series)
Originally published as Volume 22, Issue 3 of Gender & History.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4443-3944-4 (pbk.) ISBN 978-1-4443-4392-2 (ePDF) ISBN 978-1-4443-4395-3 (Wiley Online Library) ISBN 978-1-4443-4393-9 (ePub) ISBN 978-1-4443-4394-6 (Mobi)
1. Gender identityHistory. 2. SexHistory. I. Murphy, Kevin P.,1963- II. Spear, Jennifer M.,
1967-HQ1075.H577 2011
306.701dc22

2011014941

This book is published in the following electronic formats: ePDFs (9781444343922); Wiley Online Library (9781444343953); ePub (9781444343939); Mobi (9781444343946)

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Kevin P. Murphy received his Ph.D. in history from New York University in 2001. He is associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota. His book, Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform, was published in 2008.

Jennifer M. Spear teaches early American history at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) and several articles exploring race, gender, and sexuality in early North America, especially those regions colonised by France and Spain.

Pete Sigal is an associate professor of Latin American history at Duke University. He is the author of From Moon Goddesses to Virgins: The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire (2000) and editor of Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America (2003). Most recently, as a participant in a forum on transnational sexualities, he published an article in the American Historical Review 114/5 (2009), Latin America and the Challenge of Globalizing the History of Sexuality. He is currently completing a study on the interaction of writing and sexual representation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Nahua societies ( The Flower and the Scorpion: Sexuality in Early Nahua Culture and Society , Duke University Press, forthcoming).

Marisa J. Fuentes completed her doctorate in the department of African American studies at Berkeley in 2007. She is an assistant professor at Rutgers University, in the departments of history and womens and gender studies. Her current book project explores the spatial, historical and symbolic confinement enslaved women experienced in eighteenth-century Bridgetown, Barbados.

Brooke N. Newman has just completed research fellowships at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford and the Gilder Lehrman Center for Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance at Yale University. She is the co-editor of Native Diasporas: Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Identities in the Americas (forthcoming, University of Nebraska Press, 2011), and is currently at work on a book exploring mastery and the Anglo-West Indian connection during the age of slavery.

Leon Antonio Rocha is D. Kim Foundation for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia postdoctoral fellow at the Needham Research Institute and the department of history and philosophy of science, University of Cambridge.