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Chris Beasley, Gender and Sexuality: Critical Theories, Critical Thinkers
J Miriam Benn, Predicaments of Love
Lucy Bland, Banishing the Beast (with Margaret Jackson The Real Facts of Life)
Ruth Brandon, The New Women and the Old Men: Love, Sex, and the Woman Question
Janet Farrell Brodie, Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth Century America
M. L. Bush, What is Love?: Richard Carlile's Philosophy of Sex
Censorship and moral reform: joint review of Nicholas de Jongh, Politics, Prudery and Perversions: the censoring of the English stage 1901-1968, Alan Hunt, Governing Morals: A social history of moral regulation, and Alan Travis, Bound and Gagged: A secret history of obscenity in Britain
The Clitoris: Forbidden Pleasure: review of video
Lisa Forman Cody, Birthing the Nation: Sex, Science, and the Conception of Eighteenth-Century Britons: review online at H-Net Reviews
Hera Cook, The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception 1800-1975
James Covert, A Victorian Marriage: Mandell and Louise Creighton
Richard Davenport-Hines, Sex Death and Punishment: Attitudes to sex and sexuality in Britain since the Renaissance
Gerard de Groot, Blighty: British Society in the Era of the Great War
Ian Robert Dowbiggin, Keeping America Sane: Psychiatry and Eugenics in the United States and Canada, 1880-1940
Nadja Durbach, Bodily Matters: The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853-1907
Clare Eustance and Angela John, The Men's Share? Masculinities, Male Support and Women's Suffrage in Britain, 1890-1920
Janet Foster, AIDS archives in the UK
Sabine Frühstück, Colonizing Sex: Sexology and Social Control in Modern Japan
M. Gijswijt-Hofstra, G. M. Van Heteren and E. M. Tansey, Biographies of Remedies: Drugs, Medicines and Contraceptives in Dutch and Anglo-American Healing Cultures
Cate Haste, Rules of Desire: Sex in Britain: World War I to the Present; plus commissioned but never published brief notice of the 2002 reissue.
Harry Hendrick, Images of Youth: Age, Class, and the Male Youth Problem, 1880-1920
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, Rereading Sex: Battles over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth Century America
Matt Houlbrook and Harry Cocks, The Modern History of Sexuality: my on-line review can be found at Reviews in History
Matt Houlbrook, Queer London: Perils and Pleasures in the Sexual Metropolis, 1918-1957
Nicola Humble, The Feminine Middlebrow Novel 1920s to 1950s: Class, Domesticity and Bohemianism
Ronald Hyam, Empire and Sexuality: The British Experience
Sheila Jeffreys, Anticlimax: A Feminist Perspective on the Sexual Revolution
Thomas W. Laqueur, Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation
Nicky Leap and Billie Hunter, The Midwife's Tale: An Oral History from Handywoman to Professional Midwife
Doris H Linder, Crusader for Sex Education: Elise Ottesen-Jensen (1886-1973) in Scandinavia and on the International Scene
Angus McLaren, Twentieth-century Sexuality
Roberta McGrath, Seeing Her Sex: Medical Archives and the Female Body (The Critical Image)
Michael Mason, The Making of Victorian Sexuality
Kate Millett, The Loony Bin Trip
Claudia Nelson and Ann Sumner Holmes, Maternal Instincts: Visions of Motherhood and Sexuality in Britain, 1875-1925
Chris Nottingham, The Pursuit of Serenity: Havelock Ellis and the New Politics: my on-line review can be found at Reviews in History.
Harry Oosterhuis, Stepchildren of Nature: Krafft-Ebing, Psychiatry, and the Making of Sexual Identity
Julie Peakman, Mighty Lewd Books: The Development of Pornography in Eighteenth-century England
Carmel Quinlan, Genteel Revolutionaries: Anna and Thomas Haslam, Pioneers of Irish Feminism
Leslie J Reagan, When Abortion was a Crime: Women, medicine, and law in the United States, 1867-1973
Barry Reay, Watching Hannah: Sexuality, Horror and Bodily De-formation in Victorian England
Angelique Richardson, Love and Eugenics in the Late Nineteenth Century: Rational Reproduction and the New Woman
John Riddle, Eve's Herbs: A History of Contraception and Abortion in the West
George Robb and Nancy Erber (eds) Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century
Judith Rowbotham and Kim Stevenson (eds), Behaving Badly: Social Panic and Moral Outrage – Victorian and Modern Parallels
Vernon A. Rosario (ed.), Science and Homosexualities
June Rose, Marie Stopes and the Sexual Revolution
Wally Seccombe, Weathering the Storm: Working-Class Families from the Industrial Revolution to the Fertility Decline
Kevin Siena, Venereal Disease, Hospitals and the Urban Poor: London’s “Foul Wards,” 1600-1800
Jean Stengers and Anne van Neck: Masturbation: The History of a Great Terror
Jennifer Terry, An American Obsession : Science, Medicine, and the Place of Homosexuality in Modern Society
Randolph Trumbach, Sex and the Gender Revolution, Volume One: Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London
Judith R. Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight: Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London
Jeff Weeks, Making Sexual History
A. Susan Williams, The People's King
Helena Wojtczak, Women of Victorian Sussex: their status, occupations, and dealings with the law, 1830-1870
These originally appeared in American Historical Review, Archives, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Canadian Journal of History, Continuity and Change,
Feminist Review, Galton Institute Newsletter, Gewina:Journal for the History of Medicine, Science, Mathematics and Technology, History of Psychiatry, H-Albion, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Medical History, Metascience, Midland History, Social History, Social History of Medicine, Urban History, Victorian Studies, Victorians Institute Journal, Women's History Magazine, Women's History Review, between 1991 and 2007.
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