Laura L. Lovett

Sex in Global History: Modern Sources and Perspectives (Cognella, 2018)

Sex in Global History: Modern Sources and Perspectives is a collection of primary and secondary sources that illustrates how sex, gender, and sexuality have changed throughout the world over the past 300 years. These sources range from the Spanish Conquest of North America to contemporary transgender history, and address themes of colonialism, representation, scientific inquiry and authority, rights and regulations, and more. 

Sex in Global History includes material on the imposition of gender norms in China during the 18th and 19th century; race, sex, and gender in Europe before the 20th century; Victorian efforts to regulate sex, gender, and sexuality; and the idea of “new women” around the world who, by the 1920s, proclaimed independence from traditional gender norms. The book builds upon the global history of sex, gender, and sexuality to address contemporary issues including the invention of sexology, the sexual revolutions of the 1970s, and transgender history. 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ix


PART I: COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS AND “NEW WORLDS” 2
Primary Sources
Diary of Christopher Columbus, Entries for August 3rd and October 11th and 13th. 4
Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789), Ch. 1, Excerpts. 10
Secondary Source
Jennifer Morgan, “‘Some Could Suckle over Their Shoulder’: Male Travelers, Female Bodies, and the Gendering of Racial Ideology, 1500–1770,” The William and Mary Quarterly 54 (1997):

167–192. 18
PART II: CHANGING ROLES IN CHINA 44
Primary Sources
“The Natural History of the Chinese Girl,” North China Herald and Supreme Court and Consular Gazette, July 4, 1890. 46
“Small Feet of the Chinese Females: Remarks on the Origin of the Custom of Compressing the Feet; the Extent and Effects of the Practice; with an Anatomical Description of a Small Foot,” Chinese Repository 3 (1835): 537–539. 52
Han Yi, “Destroying the Family” (1907). 56
Secondary Source
Susan L. Mann, “Sexuality and the Other,” in Gender and Sexuality in Modern China (Cambridge University Press, 2011), 169–185. 60


PART III: RACE, SEX, AND GENDER IN EUROPE
BEFORE THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 78
Primary Sources
“Of Infants,” Aristotle’s Masterpiece (1680). 80
Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792), Introduction. 84
John Barclay, A Series of Engravings Representing the Bones of the Human Skeleton (1819), 140–144. 94
Women’s Petition to the National Assembly (1789). 110


PART IV: VICTORIAN NORMS 114 Primary Sources
“About the Kinds of Women Resorted to by the Citizens, and of Friends, and Messengers,” The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana(1884). Translated by Richard F. Burton. 116
W. T. Stead, The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon (1885), Excerpts. 122
Richard von Krafft-Ebbing, Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), 409–419. 126
Secondary Source
Michel Foucault, “We ‘Other Victorians,’” in The History of Sexuality, Volume 1 (1976), 3–13. 134


PART V: “NEW WOMEN” 142
Primary Sources
Edward Clarke, Sex in Education (1873), Excerpt. 144
Theodore Roosevelt, “On Motherhood” (1905). 146
Hiratsuka Raicho, “Restoring Women’s Talents” (1911). 152
Huda Shaarawi, Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, 1879–1924 (The Feminist Press, 1987), 112–137, 146-147. 156
Lola Landau, The Companionate Marriage (1929). 180
Secondary Source
Vicki Ruiz, “The Flapper and the Chaperone,” in From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth Century America (Oxford University Press, 1998), 12–26. 184


PART VI: INVENTING SEXOLOGY 204
Primary Sources
The Scientific Humanitarian Committee, “The Social Problem of Sexual Inversion” (1903). 206
Sigmund Freud, “The Sexual Aberrations” (1905), in Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Martino Fine Books, 2011), 1–12. 212
Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness (1928), Chapter 19. 222 Katherine Mayo, Mother India (New York, 1927). 228
M. K. Gandhi, “Drain-Inspector’s Report,” Young India, September 15, 1927. 234
Secondary Source
Veronika Fuechtner, “Indians, Jews, and Sex: Magnus Hirschfeld and Indian Sexology,” in Imagining Germany Imagining Asia (Camden House, 2013), 111–130. 240


PART VII: WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH 260
Primary Sources
Maria Rosa Henson, Comfort Woman: A Filipina’s Story of Prostitution and Slavery Under the Japanese Military (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999). 262
Alfred Kinsey, “Homosexual Responses and Contacts,” in Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953) (Indiana University Press, 1998), 446–501. 266
Secondary Source
Vernon Rosario, “Rise and Fall of the Medical Model,” The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide (November 1, 2012), 39–41. 328


PART VIII: SEXUAL REVOLUTIONS 336
Primary Sources
Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb (Rivercity Press, 1975, Reprint of 1968 edition), 1-7. 338
Radicalesbians, “The Woman-Identified Woman,” (1970). 344 Secondary Sources
Jonathan Zimmerman, “A Right to Knowledge: Culture, Diversity, and Education in the Age of AIDS, 1984–2010,” in Too Hot to Handle: A Global History of Sex Education (Princeton University Press, 2016), 115–129. 350
Genny Beemyn, “Transgender History in the United States,” in Trans Bodies, Trans Selves (Oxford University Press, 2014), 1-36. 366