Historicising Gender and Sexuality

Historicising Gender and Sexuality features a diverse collection of essays that shed new light on the historical intersections between gender and sexuality across time and space. Demonstrates both the particularities of specific formulations of gender and sexuality and the nature of the relationship between the categories themselves Presents evidence that careful and contextualised analysis of the shifting relationship of gender and sexuality illuminates broader historical processes

Notes on Contributors vii Introduction KEVIN P. MURPHY and JENNIFER M. SPEAR 1 1 Imagining Cihuacoatl: Masculine Rituals, Nahua Goddesses and the Texts of the Tlacuilos PETE SIGAL 12 2 Power and Historical Figuring: Rachael Pringle Polgreen’s Troubled Archive MARISA J. FUENTES 38 3 Gender, Sexuality and the Formation of Racial Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Caribbean World BROOKE N. NEWMAN 59 4 Xing: The Discourse of Sex and Human Nature in Modern China LEON ANTONIO ROCHA 77 5 Epistemic Modernity and the Emergence of Homosexuality in China HOWARD CHIANG 103 6 Overcoming ‘Simply Being’: Straight Sex, Masculinity and Physical Culture in Modern Egypt WILSON CHACKO JACOB 132 7 Monitoring and Medicalising Male Sexuality in Semi-Colonial Egypt HANAN KHOLOUSSY 151 8 The Volatility of Sex: Intersexuality, Gender and Clinical Practice in the 1950s SANDRA EDER 166 9 ‘A Certain Amount of Prudishness’: Nudist Magazines and the Liberalisation of American Obscenity Law, 1947–58 BRIAN HOFFMAN 182 10 Cold War Conflicts and Cheap Cabaret: Sexual Politics at the 1975 United Nations International Women’s Year Conference JOCELYN OLCOTT 207 11 Gender and Sexuality in Latina/o Miami: Documenting Latina Transsexual Activists SUSANA PENà229 Index 247