Reading List- Major Field in Gender & Sexuality- Jessica Butler
Theory
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Routledge,
1999.
Firestone, Shulamith. The Dialectic of Sex, 1971.
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, vol. 1, 1980.
Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge, 1980.
Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civlization, 1964.
Gilman, Sander. Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race, and Madness, 1985.
Halperin, David M. How to do the History of Homosexuality, 2002.
Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud, 1990.
McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest,
1995.
Scott, Joan Wallach. Gender and the Politics of History, 1988.
Stoler, Ann. Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial
Order of Things, 1995.
Theweleit, Klaus. Male Fantasies: Volume 1: Women, Floods, Bodies, History, 1987.
Theweleit, Klaus. Males Fantasies: Volume 2: Male Bodies, Psychoanalyzing the White Terror,
1989.
Tosh, John. "What Should Historians Do With Masculinity? Reflections on NineteenthCentury Britain," History Workshop Journal 38 (1994).
Wiegman, Robyn. American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender, 1995.
Science and Sexuality
Bland, Lucy and Laura Doan, eds. Sexology in Culture: Labeling Bodies and Desires, 1998.
Bullough, Vern. Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research, 1994.
Briggs, Laura. “The Race of Hysteria: ‘Overcivilization’ and the ‘Savage’ in Late NineteenthCentury Obstetrics and Gynecology.” American Quarterly 52 (2000): 246-73.
Dreger, Alice. Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex, 1998.
English, Daylanne. Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem
Renaissance, 2004.
Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality,
2000.
Haraway, Donna. “A Cyborg Manifesto” in Simian, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of
Nature (1991).
Irvine, Janice. Disorders of Desire: Sex and Gender in Modern American Sexology, 1990.
Lunbeck, Elizabeth. The Psychiatric Persuasion: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Modern
America, 1994.
Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff. A Dark Science: Women, Sexuality, and Psychiatry in the
Nineteenth Century, 1986.
Reis, Elizabeth. "Impossible Hermaphrodies: Intersex in America, 1620-1960." Journal of
American History 92 (September 2005), 411-41.
Rosario, Vernon A., ed. Science and Homosexualities, 1997.
Schiebinger, Londa. Nature's Body: Gender and the Making of Modern Science, 1993.
Somerville, Siobhan. "Scientific Racism and the Emergence of the Homosexual Body" in The
Journal of the History of Sexuality/ 5, no.2 (October 1994): 243-66.
Stern, Alexandra Minna. Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in America,
2005.
Terry, Jennifer. An American Obsession: Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern
Society, 1999.
Gender, Sexuality, and the State
Briggs, Laura. Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico,
2002.
Canaday, Margot. The Straight State, 2009.
De Grazia, Victoria. How Fascism Ruled Women: Italy, 1922-1945, 1993.
Kunzel, Regina. Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American
Sexuality, 2010.
Levine, Philippa. Prostitution, Race, and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British
Empire, 2003.
Mosse, George L. The Image of Man, 1996.
Mosse, George L. Nationalism and Sexuality: Respectability and Abnormal Sexuality in Modern
Europe, 1985.
Pascoe, Peggy. What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America,
2009.
Roberts, Dorothy. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty,
1998.
Robertson, Stephen. Crimes Against Children: Sexual Violence and Legal Culture in New York
City, 1880-1960, 2005.
Schoen, Johanna. Choice and Coercion: Birth Control, Sterilization, and Abortion in
Public Health and Welfare, 2005.
Stein, Marc. Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe, 2010.
Stoler, Ann L. "Making Empire Respectable: The Politics of Race and Sexual Morality in
Twentieth-Century Colonial Empires," American Ethnologist 16 (1992).
Suarez-Findley, Eileen J. Imposing Decency: The Politics of Sexuality and Race in Puerto Rico,
1870-1920, 2000.
Uberoi, Patricia, ed. Social Reform, Sexuality and the State, 1996.
Social History of Sexuality
Boag, Peter. Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific
Northwest, 2003.
Bederman, Gail. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the
United States, 1880-1917, 1995.
Boyd, Nan Alamilla. Wide-Open Town: A History of Queer San Francisco to 1965, 2005.
Chauncey, George. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male
World, 1890-1940, 1994.
D’Emilio, John. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in
the United States, 1940-1970, 1983.
Duden, Barbara. The Woman Beneath the Skin: A Doctor’s Patients in 18th century Germany,
1991.
Duggan, Lisa. Sapphic Slashers: Sex, Violence, and American Modernity, 2000
Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentiethcentury America, 1991.
Houlbrook, Matt. Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 19181957, 2006.
Kasson, John. Houdini, Tarzan, and the Perfect Man: The White Male Body and the Challenge
of Modernity in America, 2001.
Katz, Jonathan Ned. The Invention of Heterosexuality, 1996.
Lui, Mary Ting Yi. The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other
Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City, 2007.
Meyerowitz, Joanne. How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States, 2002.
Mumford, Kevin J. Interzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the
Early Twentieth Century, 1997.
Rupp, Leila. A Desired Past: A Short History of Same Sex Love in America, 2001.
Russell, Thaddeus. “The Color of Discipline: Civil Rights and Black Sexuality,” American
Quarterly 60 (March 2008): 101-28
Snitow, Ann and Christine Stansell, eds. Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality, 1983.
Tampagne, Florence. A History of Homosexuality in Europe: Berlin, London, Paris, 1919-1939,
2004.
Trumbach, Randolph. Sex and the Gender Revolution: Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in
Enlightenment London, 1998.
Walkowitz, Judith. City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late Victorian
London, 1992.