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Bibliographies
Submitted by Task Force Members.

 

1. Music, Gender, and Sexuality Bibliography compiled by Juniper Hill

2. Gillian Rodger's Bibliography:
Women on the Stage/Feminist Performance/Performance Studies
Cross Dressing (Mostly theatrical)
Women’s Studies/Gender Studies
Transexual Studies/Intersexual Studies
Queer Theory/Gay & Lesbian History
Sexology/Psychology/Sex History

3.  Dance, Gender, and Sexuality Bibliography compiled by Judith Lynne Hanna


Music, Gender, and Sexuality Bibliography
compiled by Juniper Hill, spring 2003

Abu-Lughod, Lila. 1986. Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in a Bedouin Society. Los Angeles, California: University of California Press.

Abu-Lughod, Lila. 1990. “Can There Be a Feminist Ethnography?” Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, vol. 5(1):7-27.

Anzuldua, Gloria. “Haciendo caras, una entrada.” In Making Face, Making Soul: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Foundation books, (1990), pp. vv-xxviii.

Apo, Satu, Aili Nenola, and Laura Stark-Arola. 1998. Gender and Folklore: Perspectives on Finnish and Karelian Culture. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society.

Attinello, “Performance and/or Shame: A Mosaic of Gay (and Other) Perceptions,” Repercussions 4/2 (Fall 1995): 97-130.

Blackwood, Evelyn. 1995. "Falling in Love with an-Other Lesbian: Reflections on Identity in Fieldwork." In Taboo: Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork, ed. by Kulick and Willson. New York, New York: Routledge. Pp. 51-75.

Bolton, Ralph. 1995. "Tricks, Friends, and Lovers: Erotic Encounters in the Field." In Taboo: Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork, ed. by Kulick and Willson. New York, New York: Routledge. Pp. 140-167.

Bradby, Barbara, “Do-Talk and Don’t-Talk: The Division of the Subject in Girl-Group Music,” in On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Word, Simon Frith and Andrew Goodwin, eds. (New York 1990): 341-368.

Bradby, Barbara, “Sampling Sexuality: Gender, Technology, and the Body in Dance Music,” Popular Music 12/2 (1993): 155-176.

Brett, Philip, “Musicality, Essentialism, and the Closet,” in Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lebian Musicology, Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, eds. (New York, 1994): 9-26.

Brett, Philip, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, eds., Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lebian Musicology, (New York, 1994).

Butler, Judith. 1990. “Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire” and “Condusion: From Parody to Politics,” In Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York: Routledge, pp. 1-34 and 142-149.

Butler, Judith. 1993. “Introduction.” In Bodies that Matter, New York: Routledge.

Butler, Judith. 1994. “Against Proper Objects” in Differences: a Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 6:1-26.

Carby, Hazel. “It Jus Be’s Dat Way Sometime” in Unequal Sisters, pp. 238-49.

Case, Sue-Ellen. 1989. "Toward a Butch-Femme Aesthetic" in Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women's Theater, ed. Lynda Hart. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 282-99.

Case, Sue-Ellen. 1996. Split Britches: Lesbian Practice/Feminist Performance. New York: Routledge.

Chauncey, George. 1989. "Christian Brotherhood or Sexual Perversion? Homosexual Identities in the Construction of Sexual Boundaries in the World War I Era" in Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past. New York: New American Library.

Chauncey, George. 1989. "From Sexual Inversion to Homosexuality: the Changing Medical Conceptualization of Female 'Deviance'" in Passion and Power: Sexuality in History, eds. Kathy Peiss and Christina Simmons. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Chauncey, George. 1994. Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books.

Cook, Susan. '“Cursed Was She': Gender and Power in Ame Ballad In Cecilia Reclaimed: Feminist Perspectives on Gender and Music, eds. Susan C. Cook and Judy S. Tsou, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1994).

Cusick, Suzanne G., “On a Lesbian Relationship with Music: A Serious Effort Not to Think Straight,” in Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, eds. (New York, 1994): 67-84.

Daley, Mike, “Patti Smith’s Gloria: Intertextual Play in a Vocal Performance,” Popular Music 16/3 (1997): 235-254.

Dart, Mary. 1992. "Contradance Choreography: A Reflection of Social Change." Ph.D. Dissertation. Indiana University.

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Davis, Angela Y. Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday, Pantheon Press, 1998.

Davy, Kate. 1986. "Constructing the Spectator: Reception, Context, and Address in Lesbian Performance" in Performing Arts Journal 10: 2.

de Lauretis, Teresa. 1990. "Sexual Indifference and Lesbian Representation" in Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theater, ed. Sue-Ellen Case. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Dibbell, Carola. “Inside Was Us,” in Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock, pp. 269-87

Douglas, Susan J., “Why The Shirelles Mattered,” Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media (New York, 1994): 83-98.

Dyer, Richard, “It’s being so camp as keeps us going,” Only Entertainment (London and New York, 1992).

Echols, Alice. Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin.

Ehrenreich, Hess & Jacobs, “Beatlemania,” in Re-Making Love, pp. 10-38.

Faderman, Lillian. 1978. "The Morbidification of Love between Women by Nineteenth-Century Sexologist" in Journal of Homosexuality 4.

Fast, Susan, “Rethinking Issues of Gender and Sexuality in Led Zeppelin: A Woman’s View of Pleasure and Power in Hard Rock,” American Music 17/3 (Fall 1999): 245-299.

Fitzgerald,, Thomas K. 1999. "Identity and Ethnography: Limits to Reflective Subjectivity." In Sex, Sexuality, and the Anthropologist, ed. by Markowitz and Ashkenazi. Chicago, Illinois: University Of Illinois Press. Pp. 117-127.

Flax, Jane. “Postmodernism and Gender Relations in Feminist Theory.” Signs, vol. 12(4), (1987), pp. 621-643.

Flinn, Juliana, L. Marshall, and J. Armstrong,eds. 1998. Fieldwork and Families. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.

Frith, Simon, “Rhythm: Race, Sex, and the Body,” and “Rhythm: Time, Sex, and the Mind,” Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music (Cambridge MA, 1996): 123-157.

Gaines, Donna. “Girl Groups: A Ballad of Codependency,” in Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock, pp. 103-115.

Gaspar de Alba, Alicia. 1999. "The Politics of Location of the Tenth Muse of America: an Interview with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz" in Living Chicana Theory. Berkeley: Third Woman Press.

George, Kenneth. “Music-Making, Ritual and Gender in a Southeast Asian Hill Society,” Ethnomusicology, vol. 37(1), Winter (1993), pp. 1-27.

Gonzalez, Deena. 1999. "Speaking Secrets: Living Chicana Theory" in Living Chicana Theory. Berkeley: Third Woman Press.

Goodman, Liz. 1996. "Rights of Passing." In Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, ed. by Lewin, Ellen and Leap, William. Chicago: Illinois, University of Illinois Press. Pp. 49-57.

Grewal, Inderpal and Kaplan, Caren. 2001. "Global Identities: Theorizing Transnational Studies of Sexuality" in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 7: 663-679.

Hajdu, David. 2002. "Queer as Folk: How Did an Earnest Voice and an Acoustic Guitar Become the Sound of Lesbian Culture?" in New York Times Magazine. August 18, 2002.

Halberstam, Judith. 1998. “Transgender Butch: Butch/FTM Border Wars and the Masculine Continuing" in Female Masculinity. Durham: Duke University Press.

Halberstam, Judith. 1998. “The Androgyne, the Tribade, the Female Husband, and Other Pre-Twentieth-Century Genders" in Female Masculinity. Durham: Duke University Press.

Halperin, David M. 1989. "Sex before Sexuality: Pederasty, Politics, and Power in Classical Athens" in Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past, edited by George Chauncey. New York: New American Library.

Halperin, David. 2002. How to Do the History of Homosexuality, "Introduction: in Defense of Historicism". Chicago: University Of Chicago Press.

Hampton, Barbara. “Music and Gender in Ga Society: Adaawe Song Poetry.” In African Musicology: Current Trends, Vol. II., , ed. Jacqueline DjeDje, Los Angeles: Crossroads Press/African Studies Association, (1992), pp. 135-149.

Hart, Lynda and Phelan, Peggy. 1995. "Queerer Than Thou: Being and Deb Margolin" in Theater Journal 47.

Hart, Lynda. 1993. "Identity and Seduction:Lesbians in the Mainstream" in Acting out: Feminist Performances. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Hast, Dorothea. 1994. "Music, Dance, and Community: Contradance in New England." Ph.D. Dissertation. Wesleyan University, CT

Hill-Collins, Patricia. “Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment.” In Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. London: HarperCollins Academic, (1990), pp. 221-238.

hooks, bell. “talking back” from Talking Back: Thinking feminist. Thinking Black, Boston: South End Press, (1989), pp. 5-9.

Howard, John. 1999. Men like That: a Southern Queer History, Chapter 1 "Ones and Twos". Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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Hubbs, Nadine, “ Will Survive’: The Disco Anthem’s Minor-Mode Semiotics of Transcendence” unpublished typescript.

Hubbs, Nadine, “Music of the ‘Fourth Gender’: Morrissey and the Sexual Politics of Melodic Contour,” Genders: Bodies of Writing, Bodies in Performance, Thomas Foster and Carol Seigel, eds. v. 23 (New York, 1996): 266-96.

Jones, Rose. 1999. "Husbands and Lovers: Gender Construction and the Ethnography of Sex Research." In Sex, Sexuality, and the Anthropologist, ed. by Markowitz and Ashkenazi. Chicago, Illinois: University Of Illinois Press. Pp. 25-43.

Kaufmann McCall, Dorothy. “Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, and Jean-Paul Sartre,” Signs, vol. 5(2), (1979), pp. 209-233.

Keyes, Cheryl. “Empowering Self, Making Choices, Creating Spaces: Black Female Identity via Rap Music Performance,” Journal of American Folklore, Summer 2000.

Kleinhans, Chuck, “Taking Out the Trash: Camp and the Politics of Parody,” in The Politics and Poetics of Camp, Moe Meyer, ed. (London and New York, 1994): 182-201.

Kononenko, Natalie. 1994. "Women As Performers of Oral Literature: A Re-Examination of Epic and Lament", in Women Writers in Russian Literature, edited by Tony Clyman and Diana Greene.

Koskoff, Ellen. “An Introduction to Women, Music and Culture.” In Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective, Ellen Koskoff, ed. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, (1987).

Koskoff, Ellen. “The Sound of a Woman's Voice: Gender and Music in a New York Hasidic Community.” In Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective, pp. 213-223.

Kulick, Don and Willson, Margaret, eds. 1995. Taboo: Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork. New York, New York: Routledge.

Lang, Sabine. 1998. Men As Women, Women As Men: Changing Gender in Native American Cultures. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Levine, Judy. N.D. "Contradance in New York: Longways for As Many As Will" in Meaningful Play, Meaningful Meaning. Ed. Fine, Gary Alan. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc..

Lewin, Ellen and Leap, William, eds. 1996. Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists. Chicago: Illinois, University of Illinois Press.

Lewin, Ellen. “Writing Lesbian Ethnography.” In Women Writing Culture, Ruth Behar and Deborah A. Gordon, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, (1995), pp. 322-335.

Lewin, Ellen. 1996. "Confessions of a Reformed Grant Hustler." In Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, ed. by Lewin, Ellen and Leap, William. Chicago: Illinois, University of Illinois Press. Pp. 111-127.

Mackinnon, Catherine. “Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory.” Signs, vol. 7(3), (1982), pp. 515-544.

Markowitz, Fran and Ashkenazi, Michael, eds. 1999. Sex, Sexuality, and the Anthropologist, Chicago, Illinois: University Of Illinois Press.

McClary, Susan. 1991. “Introduction: A Material Girl in Bluebeard's Castle”I and “Living to Tell: Madonna’s Resurrection of the Fleshly,” in Feminine Endings: Music, Gender,and Sexuality (Minneapolis), pp. 3-31, 148-166.

Mercer-Taylor, Peter, “Songs from the Bell Jar: Autonomy and Resistance in the Music of the Bangles,” Popular Music 17/2 (1998): 187-204.

Minh-ha, Trinh T. an excerpt from When the Moon Waxes Red: Representation, Gender and Cultural Politics, (1991) NY: Routledge.

Mockus, Martha, “Queer Thoughts on Country Music and k. d. lang,” in Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lebian Musicology, Philip Brett, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas, eds. (New York, 1994): 257-274.

Moisala, Pirkko. 1997. "Can Women's Studies Change the World of Music?: New Perspectives on Finnish Music and Music Research." In Finnish Music Quarterly, No. 4, p. 18-23.

Moore, John, “‘The Hieroglyphics of Love’: The Torch Singers and Interpretation,” Popular Music 8/1 (1989): 31-58.

Morris, Mitchell, “Black Masculinity and the Sound of Wealth: Barry White in the Early 70s,” unpublished typescript.

Morris, Mitchell, “Cher’s ‘Dark Ladies,” 70s Integrationisms, and the Culture of Entertainment,” unpublished typescript.

Morris, Mitchell, “Disco Performance in (the) Masculine Camp: The Case of the Village People,” unpublished typescript.

Morris, Mitchell, “It’s Raining Men’: The Weather Girls, Gay Sensibility, and the Erotics of Excess,” in Audible Traces: Gender, Music, and Identity, Elaine Barkin and Lydia Hamessley, eds. (Zurich, 1999): 213-230.

Morris, Mitchell, “Musical Virtues,” unpublished typescript.

Muñoz, José Esteban. 1999. Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics, "Introduction: Performing Disidentifications". Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press.

Newton, Esther. 1987. "Academe's Homophobia: It Damages Careers and Ruins Lives." In Chronicle of Higher Education. March 11, 104.

Novak, Cynthia. 1990. Sharing the Dance. Madison, WI: University Of Wisconsin Press.

Peraino, Judith A., “Rip Her to Shreds’: Women’s Music According to a Butch-Femme Aesthetic,” Repercussions 1/1 (Spring 1992): 19-47.

Perez, Emma. 1991. "Sexuality and Discourse: Notes from a Chicana Survivor" in Chicana Lesbians: the Girls Our Mothers Warned Us about. Berkeley: Third Woman Press.

Perez, Emma. 1999. The Decolonial Imaginary: Writing Chicanas into History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Petrovic, Ankica. “Women in the Music Creation Process in the Dinaric Cultural Zone of Yugoslavia.” In Music, Gender and Culture, eds. Marcia Herndon and Susanne Ziegler, Berlin: Florian Noetzel Verlag Wilhelmshaven., (1990), pp. 7 1-84.

Radner, Joan N. & Susan S. Lanser, “Strategies of Coding in Women's Cultures.” In Feminist Messages: Coding in Women's Folk Culture, Urban: Univ. of Illinois Press, (1993), pp. 1-35.

Rebollo-Sborgi, Francesca. “Decentering the Feminist Self,” Repercussions, vol.1(2) (Fall 1992), pp. 26-5 1.

Roos, Michael, and Don O’Meara, “Is Your Love in Vain?—Dialectical Dilemmas in Bob Dylan’s Recent Love Songs,” Popular Music 7/1 (1988): 35-50.

Rorich, Mary. “Shabeens, Slumyards, & Sophiatown: Black Women Music and Cultural Change in Urban South Africa,” World of Music, vol. 3 1(1), 1989, pp.78-101.

Rosaldo, Michelle Zimbalist, “Women, Culture, and Society: A Theoretical Overview.” In Women, Culture and Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press, (1974), pp. 17-42.

Roscoe, Will. 1996. "Writing Queer Cultures: An Impossible Possibility?" In Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, ed. by Lewin, Ellen and Leap, William. Chicago: Illinois, University of Illinois Press. Pp. 200-211.

Roscoe, William, editor. 1988. Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Roscoe, William. 1998. Changing Ones: Third and Fourth Genders in Native North America. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Rose, Tricia, “Bad Sistahs: Black Women Rappers and Sexual Politics in Rap Music,” Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Hanover NH, 1994):146-182.

Rose, Tricia. “Bad Sistas,” in Black Noise, pp. 146-82.

Rothenbusch, Esther. “The Joyful Sound: Women in the Nineteenth-Century United States Hymnody Tradition,” Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective . . ., pp.177-194.

Rubin , Gayle with Judith Butler. 1994. “Sexual Traffic” in Differences: a Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 6:62-99.

Sakata, Lorraine. “Hazara Women in Afghanistan: Innovators and Preservers of a Musical Tradition,” Women and Music in Cross-Cultural Perspective... pp. 85-95.

Schade-Poulsen, Marc. Men and Popular Music in Algeria. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, “Introduction: Axiomatic,” Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1990): 1-63.

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Smith, Martha Nell, “Sexual Mobilities in Bruce Springsteen Performance as Commentary,” in Present Tense: Rock & Roll and Culture, Anthony DeCurtius, ed. (Durham NC, 1992):197-218.

Spivak, Gayatri. ”Can the Subaltern Speak?” In Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, eds. Cary Nelson and Lawrence Grossberg, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1988).

Stein, Arlene. 1993. "Androgyny Goes Pop: But Is It Lesbian Music?" in Sisters, Sexperts, Queers: Beyond the Lesbian Nation, edited by Arlene Stein. New York: Plume.

Sugarman, Jane. 1997. Engendering Song: Singing and Subjectivity at Prespa Albanian Weddings. Chicago, Illinois: University Of Chicago Press.

Thurston, William R. 1998. "The Inadvertent Acquisition of Kinship during Ethnographic Fieldwork." In Fieldwork and Families, ed. by J. Flinn, L. Marshall, and J. Armstrong. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press. Pp 154-168.

Vander, Judith. Songprints: the Musical Experience of Five Shoshone Women. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.

Walser, Robert. 1993. “Beyong the Vocals: Toward the Analysis of Popular Music Discourses,” and “Forging Masculinity: Heavy Metal Sounds and Images of Gender,” in Running With the Devil: Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music (Hanover NH), pp. 26-56, 108-136.

Warwick, Jacqueline, “You’re Gonna Lose That Girl’: The Beatles and the Girl Groups” (unpublished typescript).

Weston, Kath. 1996. "Requiem for a Streetfighter." In Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, ed. by Lewin, Ellen and Leap, William. Chicago: Illinois, University of Illinois Press. Pp. 274-286.

Whiteley, Sheila, editor. Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender. London and New York: Routledge Press, 1997.

Wiegman, Robyn. 1997. "Queering the Academy" in Genders 26: 3-22.

Wiegman, Robyn. 1999. "On Being Married to the Institution" in Power, Race, and Gender in Academe: Strangers in the Tower?, eds. Shirley Geok-Lin Lim and Maria Herrera-Sobek. New York: Modern Language Association, pp. 71-82.

Williams, Walter L. 1986. The Spirit and the Flesh: Sexual Diversity in American Indian Culture. Boston: Beacon Press.

Williams, Walter L. 1993. "Being Gay and Doing Research on Homosexuality in Non-Western Cultures." The Journal of Sex Research. Vol. 30, No. 2. May. Pp 115-120.

Williams, Walter L. 1996. "Being Gay and Doing Fieldwork." In Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists, ed. by Lewin, Ellen and Leap, William. Chicago: Illinois, University of Illinois Press. Pp. 70-85.

Wise, Sue, “Sexing Elvis,” in On Record: Rock, Pop, and the Written Word, Simon Frith and Andrew Goodwin, eds. (New York 1990): 390-398.

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Gillian Rodger's Bibliography

Women on the Stage/Feminist Performance/Performance Studies

Allen, Robert C. 1991. Horrible prettiness: burlesque and American culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

Anon. 1871. "About woman: her rights, wrongs, and proper sphere of usefulness," New York Clipper, March 4.

Anon. 1898. "Why an actress cannot wear trousers like a man," New York Journal, Sunday, February 13. Found in Robinson Locke Collection (Box MWEZ+n.c. 26.791) at the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.

Anon. 1903a. "Fascination of masculine garb for ambitious actresses," The Morning Telegraph, Sunday, July 5. Found in Robinson Locke Collection (Box MWEZ+n.c. 26.791) at the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.

Anon. 1903b. "The woman who won fame in trousers and who will never wear them again, believes every woman should wear them," The World, August 30. Found in Robinson Locke Collection (Box MWEZ+n.c. 26.791) at the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.

Anon. 1904a. "Actors not needed! Actresses who play men's parts so well that it is solemnly suggested we might get along without men on the stage at all," American-Journal-Examiner, Great Britain. Found in Robinson Locke Collection (Box MWEZ+n.c. 26.791) at the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.

Anon. 1904b. "Stage arts Adamless Eden. Are men actors really needed? Countless charming substitutes bravely tackle trousered roles," New York Herald Magazine, Sunday July 10. Found in Robinson Locke Collection (Box MWEZ+n.c. 26.791) at the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.

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Anon. 1907. "Dainty woman earns a living by playing the part of a man," Pittsburgh Leader, December 22. Found in Robinson Locke Collection (Box MWEZ+n.c. 26.791) at the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center.

Anon. 1908. ""The Jester" with Miss Maude Adams as principal boy, the part of the humpback jester," The Theatre, vol. 8 no. 84 (February): ix

A. P. 1914. "Acting helps a woman to live," The Theatre, vol. 20 no 161 (July): 14, 42.

Banes, Sally. 1998. Dancing women: female bodies on stage. London: Routledge.

Bell, Archie. 1907. "What woman has done for the stage," The Theatre, vol. 7, no. 78 (August): 216-17.

Blackmer, Corinne E. and Patricia Juliana Smith. 1995. En travesty: women, gender subversion, opera. New York: Columbia University Press.

Bloodgood, Clara. 1904. "The stage as a career for young women," The Theatre, vol. 4, no. 46 (December): 304.

Bratton, J. S. 1992. "Irrational dress," in The New Woman and her sisters: feminism and theatre 1850-1914, ed. Vivien Gardner, and Susan Rutherford. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, pp. 77-91.

Bratton, J. S. 1996. "Beating the bounds: gender play and role reversal in the Edwardian music hall," in The Edwardian theatre: essays on performance and the stage, edited by Michael R. Booth and Joel H. Kaplan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 86-110.

Burke, Billie and Wilton Lackay. 1917. "Do players seldom marry?" The Theatre, vol. 25 no. 199 (September): 144, 146.

Case, Sue-Ellen (ed). 1996. Split britches: lesbian practice/feminist performance. London: Routledge.

Deland, Margaret. 1910. "The change in the feminine ideal," The Atlantic Monthly, 105/3 (March): 289-302.

Frame, Virginia. 1906a. "When the college girl takes to the stage," The Theatre, vol. 6, no. 64 (June): 162-64.

Jones, Amelia and Andrew Stephenson. 1999. Performing the body/performing the text. London: Routledge.

Kibler, M. Alison. 1999. Rank ladies: gender and cultural hierarch in American vaudeville. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.

Kolb, Deborah S. 1975. "The rise and fall of the New Woman in American drama," Educational Theatre Journal 27/2 (May): 149-160.

Mankowitz, Wolf. 1982. Mazeppa: the lives, loves and legends of Adah Isaacs Mencken. Briarcliff Manor, NY: Stein and Day.

Matthison, Edith Wynne and Lillian Russell. 1916. "Is the stage a perilous place for the young girl?" The Theatre, vol. 23 no. 179 (January): 22.

Mizejewski, Linda. 1999. Ziegfeld girl: image and icon in culture and cinema. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

M. T. M. 1905. "Wanted a new type of femininity," The Theatre, vol. 5, no. 47 (January): 23.

Pingree, Maud. 1914. "Are women of the stage happy?" The Theatre, vol. 19 no. 159 (May): 239-40.

Reinelt, Janelle G. and Joseph R. Roach. 1992. Critical theory and performance. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Shaw, Mary. 1911. "The actress on the road," McClures 38 (July): 263-72.

Skipworth, Alison. 1919. "Backstage scandal: are the morals of the actress any different from those of the average church member?" The Theatre, vol. 29 no. 21 (July): 26.

Skirt, The. 1910. "Women on "small time" and the "chasing" manager: "The Skirt" says publicity is the only cure, and offers aid to those annoyed by the leeches," Variety, March 5: 5.

Solomon, Alisa. 1997. Re-dressing the canon: essays on theatre and gender. London: Routledge.

Staples, Shirley. 1984. Male-female comedy teams in American vaudeville, 1865-1932. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press.

Straayer, Chris. 1996. Deviant eyes, deviant bodies: sexual re-orientation in film and video. New York: Columbia University Press.

Stuart, Judson. 1915. "The high cost of stage beauty," The Theatre, vol. 21 no. 171 (May): 238-40.

Ten Broek, Helen. 1916. "Motherhood and art," The Theatre, vol. 24 no. 190 (December): 372, 402.

Ten Broek, Helen. 1917. "Successful stage mothers," The Theatre, vol. 26 no. 97 (July): 16-18.

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Cross Dressing (Mostly theatrical)

Ackroyd, Peter. 1979. Dressing up, transvestism and drag: the history of an obsession. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Anon. 1886a. "Man or woman?" Grand Rapids Evening Leader, June 7, 1886: 4.

Anon. 1886b. "Married her maid: the strange story of Charles and Annie Hindle, a man masquerading as a woman," Grand Rapids Telegram-Herald, June 7, 1886: 4.

Anon. 1886c. "Married as a man," Grand Rapids Daily Democrat, June 8, 1886: 5

Anon. 1911. ""The Fascinating Widow." Musical comedy in three acts. . . ." The Theatre, vol. 14 no. 128 (October): 113-14.

Anon. 1914. ""The Crinoline Girl." Farcical melodramatic comedy, with songs, in three acts by Otto Hauerbach; lyrics by Julian Eltinge; music by Perry Wenrich. . . ." The Theatre, vol. 19 no. 159 (May): 227.

Anon. 1915a. "Maxine Elliott's "The Adventures of Lady Ursula" revival." The Theatre, vol. 21 no. 170 (April): 172.

Anon. 1915b. ""Cousin Lucy." Comedy in three acts by Charles Kein with musical numbers by Jerome Kern. . . ." The Theatre, vol. 22 no. 176 (October): 168.

Baker, Roger. 1994. Drag: a history of female impersonation in the performing arts. New York: New York University Press.

Bell-Metereau, Rebecca. 1985. Hollywood androgyny. New York: Columbia University Press.

Bennett, Betty T. 1991. Mary Diana Dods, a gentleman and a scholar. New York: Morrow & Co.

Bentley, Gladys. 1952. "I'm a woman again," Ebony (August): 92-98

Bruzzi, Stella. 1997. Undressing cinema: clothing and identity in the movies. London: Routledge.

Bullough, Vern and Bonnie Bullough. 1993. Cross dressing, sex and gender. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Dickens, Homer. 1982. What a drag. London: Angus & Robertson.

Dolan, Jill. 1992. "Gender impersonation onstage: destroying or maintaining the mirror of gender roles?" in Gender in performance: the presentation of difference in the performing arts ed. Laurence Senelick. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, pp. 3-13.

Drorbaugh, Elizabeth. 1993. "Sliding scales: notes on Stormé DeLarverié and the Jewel Box Revue, the cross-dressed woman on the contemporary stage, and the invert," in Crossing the Stage, ed. Lesley Ferris. New York: Routledge, pp. 120-143.

Ferris, Leslie (ed.). 1993. Crossing the stage: controversies in cross-dressing. New York: Routledge.

Garber, Marjorie. 1992. Vested interests: cross-dressing and cultural anxiety. New York: Basic Books.

Hamilton, Marybeth. 1993. ""I'm the Queen of the Bitches": Female impersonation and Mae West's Pleasure Man," in Crossing the Stage, ed. Lesley Ferris. New York: Routledge, pp. 107-119

Herrmann, Anne. 1991. ""Passing" women, performing men," Michigan Quarterly Review 30/1 (Winter): 60-71.

Hotchkiss, Valerie. 1996. Clothes make the man: female cross dressing in Medieval Europe. New York: Garland Publishing.

Husain, Shahrukh. 1996. Handsome heroines: women as men in folklore. New York: Anchor Books.

Kates, Gary. 1995. Monsieur d’Eon is a woman: a tale of political intrigue and sexual masquerade. New York: Basic Books.

Liechti, Robert. 1968. "Male impersonation on the stage: a brief survey of its past," Call Boy (December): 16-19.

Maitland, Sara. 1986. Vesta Tilley. London: Virago.

Martin, Isabelle. 1914. "Stage clothes," The Theatre, vol. 20 no. 166 (December): 283-84, 296-97.

Maxwell, Periton. 1916. "Stage beauty in breeches," The Theatre, vol. 24 no. 186 (August):73, 75, 96.

Middlebrook, Diane Wood. 1998. Suits me: the double life of Billy Tipton. Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin.

Moore, F. Michael. 1994. Drag!: male and female impersonators on stage, screen and television. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co.

Newton, Esther. 1979. Mother camp: female impersonators in America, with a new preface. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Rodger, Gillian. 1998. “Male impersonation on the North American variety and vaudeville stage, 1868-1930.” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh.

Rodger, Gillian. 2002. ““He isn’t a marrying man”: gender and sexuality in the repertoire of male impersonators, 1870-1920,” in Queer episodes in music and modern identity, ed. Sophie Fuller and Lloyd Whitesell. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, pp. 105-133.

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Senelick, Laurence. 1983. "The evolution of the male impersonator in the nineteenth century popular stage," Essays in Theatre 1/1 (Nov.): 31-44.

Senelick, Laurence (ed.). 1992. Gender in performance: the presentation of difference in the performing arts. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.

Senelick, Laurence. 1992. "Lady and the tramp: drag differentials in the progressive era," in Gender in performance: the presentation of difference in the performing arts, ed. Laurence Senelick. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, pp. 26-45.

Senelick, Laurence. 1993. "Boys and girls together: subcultural origins of glamour drag and male impersonation on the nineteenth century stage," in Crossing the Stage, ed. Lesley Ferris. New York: Routledge, pp. 80-95.

Senelick, Laurence. 1995. "Male impersonation," The Cambridge Guide to Theatre, ed. Martin Banham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 674-75.

Senelick, Laurence. 2000. The changing room: sex, drag and theatre. London: Routledge.

Slide, Anthony. 1986. Great pretenders: a history of female and male impersonation in the performing arts. Lombard, Ill: Wallace-Homestead.

Suares, J. C. (ed). 1994. Hollywood drag. Charlottesville, VA: Thomasson-Grant.

Tilley, Vesta. 1899. "Concerning Audiences," Era Almanack, 66-67.

Tilley, Vesta. 1904. "The Mannish Woman," Pittsburgh Gazette Home Journal, April 3: 5.

Wheelwright, Julie. 1989. Amazons and military maids: women who dressed as men in the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. London: Pandora.

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Women’s Studies/Gender Studies

Adams, Eli. 1995. Dandies and desert saints: styles of Victorian manhood. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Berger, Maurice, Bruce Walllis and Simon Watson (eds). 1995. Constructing Masculinity. New York: Routledge.

Charles, Nickie and Felicia Hughes-Freeland (eds). 1996. Practising feminism: identity difference power. London: Routledge

Cogan, Frances B. 1989. All-American girl : the ideal of real womanhood in mid-nineteenth-century America. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.

Ehrenreich, Barbara. 1983. The hearts of men: American dreams and the flight from commitment. New York: Anchor Books.

Fuss, Diana. 1989. Essentially speaking: feminism, nature & difference. New York: Routledge.

Gamman, Lorraine and Merja Makinen. 1994. Female fetishism. New York: New York University Press.

Haggerty, George E. 2000. Gay histories and cultures. The Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, Vol. 2. New York: Garland Publishing.

Halberstam, Judith. 1998. Female masculinity. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

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Hall, Catherine. 1992. White, male and middle class: explorations in feminism and history. New York: Routledge.

Hennessy, Rosemary and Chrys Ingraham (eds). 1997. Materialist feminism: a reader in class, difference, and women’s lives. New York: Routledge.

Ingraham, Chrys. 1999. White weddings: romancing heterosexuality in popular culture. New York: Routledge.

Kimmel, Michael. 1996. Manhood in America: a cultural history. New York: The Free Press.

Kraditor, Aileen S. 1971. The ideas of the woman suffrage movement, 1890-1920. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books.

Melosh, Barbara (ed.). 1993. Gender and American history since 1890. New York: Routledge.

Meyerowitz, Joanne. 1988. Women adrift: independent wage earners in Chicago, 1880-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Meyerowitz, Joanne. 1993. "Sexual geography and gender economy: the furnished room districts of Chicago, 1890-1930," in Gender and American history since 1890, ed. Barbara Melosh. New York: Routledge, pp. 43-71.

Nagle, Jill (ed). 1997. Whores and other feminists. New York: Routledge.

Odem, Mary E. 1995. Delinquent daughters: protecting and policing adolescent sexuality in the United States, 1885-1920. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.

Ortner, Sherry B. and Harried Whitehead. 1981. Sexual meanings: the cultural construction of gender and sexuality. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Peiss, Kathy. 1986. Cheap amusements: working women and leisure in turn-of-the- century New York. Philadelphia: Temple University Press

Peiss, Kathy. 1989. "Charity girls' and city pleasures: historical notes on working-class sexuality 1880-1920," in Passion and power: sexuality in history, ed. Kathy Peiss and Chritine Simmons. Philadelphia" Temple University Press, pp. 57-69.

Peiss, Kathy and Christine Simmons, ed. 1989. Passion and power: sexuality in history. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Pleck, Elizabeth H. and Joseph H. Pleck (eds.). 1980. The American man. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Rosenberg, Charles E. 1980. "Sexuality, class and role in 19th-century America," in The American man, edited by Elizabeth H. Pleck and Joseph H. Pleck. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, pp. 219-54.

Rotundo, E. Anthony. 1993. American manhood: transformations in masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern era. New York: Basic Books.

Ruiz, Vicki L. and Ellen Carol DuBois. 2000. Unequal sisters: a multicultural reader in U.S. women’s history. Third edition. New York: Routledge.

Schlissell, Lillian and Catherine. 2000. The Western women’s reader: the remarkable writings of women who shaped the American West, spanning 300 years. New York: Harper Perennial.

Showalter, Elaine. 1990. Sexual anarchy: gender and culture at the fin de siècle. New York: Viking.

Simmons, Christina. 1993. "Modern sexuality and the myth of Victorian repression," in Gender and American history since 1890, ed. Barbara Melosh. New York: Routledge, pp. 17-42.

Smith-Rosenberg, Carol. 1985. Disorderly conduct: visions of gender in Victorian America. New York: A.A. Knopf

Smith-Rosenberg. 1989. "Discourses of sexuality and subjectivity: the New Woman, 1870-1936," in Hidden from history: reclaiming the gay & lesbian past, ed.

Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus and George Chauncey. New York: Meridian, pp. 264-80.

Sochen, June (ed). 1971. The new feminism in twentieth-century America. Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath & Co.

Stansell, Christine. 1986. City of women: sex and class in New York, 1789-1860. New York: Knopf.

Walters, Suzanna Danuta. 1995. Material girls: making sense of feminist theory. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Wells, Kate Gannett. 1880. "The transitional American woman," The Atlantic Monthly (December): 817-23.

Whiteley, Shiela. 2000. Women and popular music: sexuality, identity and subjectivity. London: Routledge.

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Transexual Studies/Intersexual Studies

Bornstein, Kate. 1998. My gender workbook: how to become a real man, a real woman, the real you, or something else entirely. New York: Routledge.

Coates, Susan. 1997. “Gender identity disorder in boys: the search for a constitutional factor,” in A queer world, edited by Martin Duberman. New York: New York University Press, pp. 108-133.

Colapinto, John. 2000. As nature made him: the boy who was raised as a girl. New York: Harper Collins.

Fausto-Sterling, Anne. 1997. “How to build a man,” in Science and homosexualities, edited by Vernon A. Rosario. New York: Routledge, pp. 219-25.

Herdt, Gilbert. 1997. “Third Genders, Third Sexes,” in A queer world, edited by Martin Duberman. New York: New York University Press, pp. 100-107.

Kessler, Suzanne J. “Creating good-looking genitals in the service of gender,” in A queer world, edited by Martin Duberman. New York: New York University Press, pp. 153-173.

Kessler, Suzanne J. 2000. Lessons from the intersexed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

Middlebrook, Diane Wood. 1998. Suits me: the double life of Billy Tipton. Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin.

Nanda, Serena. 1997. “The Hijras of India,” in A queer world, edited by Martin Duberman. New York: New York University Press, pp. 82-86.

Roscoe, Will. 1997. “Gender diversity in Native North America: notes toward a unified analysis,” in A queer world, edited by Martin Duberman. New York: New York University Press, pp. 65-81.


Queer Theory/Gay & Lesbian History

Abel, Sam. 1996. Opera in the flesh: sexuality in operatic performance. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Abelove, Henry, Michèle Aina Barale and David M. Halperin (eds). 1993. The lesbian and gay studies reader. New York: Routledge.

Bergman, David (ed). 1993. Camp grounds: style and homosexuality. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press.

Blasius, Mark and Shane Phelan (eds). 1997. We are everywhere: a historical sourcebook of gay and lesbian politics. New York: Routledge.

Brett, Philip, Elizabeth Wood, and Gary C. Thomas. 1994. Queering the pitch: the new gay and lesbian musicology. New York: Routledge.

Burston, Paul and Colin Richardson (eds). 1995. A queer romance: lesbians, gay men and popular culture. London: Routledge.

Butler, Judith. 1990. Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity. New York: Routledge.

Butler, Judith. 1993. Bodies that matter: on the discursive limits of "sex." New York: Routledge.

Castle, Terri. 1995. “In praise of Brigitte Fassbaender: reflections on Diva-Worship,” in En travesty, ed. Corinne E. Blackmer and Patricia Juliana Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 20-58.

Chauncey, George. 1993. "Christian brotherhood or sexual perversion?: homosexual identities and the construction of sexual boundaries in the World War I era," in Gender and American history since 1890, ed. Barbara Melosh. New York: Routledge, pp. 72-105.

Chauncey, George. 1994. Gay New York: gender, urban culture, and the making of the gay male world 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books.

Clum, John M. 1999. Something for the boys: musical theatre and gay culture. New York: Palgrave.

Creekmur, Corey K. and Alexander Doty. 1995. Out in culture: gay, lesbian, and queer essays on popular culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Curtin, Kaier. 1987. "We can always call them Bulgarians": the emergence of lesbians and gay men on the American stage. Boston: Alyson.

D’Emilio, John. 1983. Sexual politics, sexual communities: the making of a homosexual minority in the United States, 1940-1970. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Donoghue, Emma. 1993. Passions between women: British lesbian culture, 1668-1801. New York: Harper Collins.

Donoghue, Emma. 1997. Poems between women: four centuries of love, romantic friendship, and desire. New York: Columbia University Press.

Doty, Alexander. 1993. Making things perfectly queer: interpreting mass culture. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Duberman, Martin, Martha Vicinus and George Chauncey, Jr. (eds). 1990. Hidden from history: reclaiming the gay & lesbian past. New York: Meridian Books.

Duberman, Martin (ed). 1997. A queer world: the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies reader. New York: New York University Press.

Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the love of men: romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance to the present. New York: William Morrow.

Faderman, Lillian. 1992. Odd girls and twilight lovers: a history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America. New York: Penguin.

Faderman, Lillian. 1999. To believe in women: what lesbians have done for America—a history. Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin.

Foucault, Michel. 1990. The history of sexuality. Vol. 1: An introduction. New York: Vintage Books.

Fuller, Sophie and Lloyd Whitesell (eds). Queer episodes in music and modern identity. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press.

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Fuss, Diana (ed). 1991. Inside/out: lesbian theories, gay theories. New York: Routledge.

Garber, Eric. 1988. "Gladys Bentley: the Bulldagger who sang the blues," Outlook (Spring): 52-61.

Garber, Eric. 1989. "A spectacle in color: the lesbian and gay subculture of Jazz Age Harlem," in Hidden from history: reclaiming the gay & lesbian past, ed. Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus and George Chauncey. New York: Meridian, pp. 318-31.

Garber, Marjorie. 2000. Bisexuality & the eroticism of everyday life. New York: Routledge.

Gever, Martha, John Greyson and Prabitha Parmar (eds). 1993. Queer looks: perspectives on lesbian and gay film. New York: Routledge.

Gross, Larry and James D. Woods (eds). 1999. The Columbia reader in lesbians & gay men in media, society, & politics. New York: Columbia University Press.

Harris, Laura and Elizabeth Crocker (eds). 1997. Femme: feminists, lesbians & bad girls. New York: Routledge.

Herdt, Gilbert. 1997. Same sex: different cultures: exploring gay & lesbian lives. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

Higgs, David (ed). 1999. Queer sites: gay urban histories since 1600. London: Routledge.

Kaiser, Charles. 1997. The gay metropolis, 1940-1996. Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin.

Kennedy, Elizabeth Lapovsky and Madeline D. Davis. 1993. Boots of leather, slippers of gold: the history of a lesbian community. New York: Penguin.

Kirsch, Max H. 2000. Queer theory and social change. London: Routledge.

Koestenbaum, Wayne. 1993. The queen’s throat: opera, homosexuality and the mystery of desire. New York: Poseidon Press.

Madsen, Axel. 1996. Forbidden lovers: Hollywood's greatest secret—female stars who loved other women. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Stars, Carol Publishing.

Merck, Mandy. 1993. Perversions: deviant readings. New York: Routledge.

Miller, Neil. 1995. Out of the past: gay and lesbian history from 1869 to the present. New York: Vintage Books.

Mintz, Beth and Esther D. Rothblum (eds). 1997. Lesbians in academia: degrees of freedom. New York: Routledge.

Morris, Mitchell. 1995. “Admiring the Countess Geschwitz,” in En travesty, ed. Corinne E. Blackmer and Patricia Juliana Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 348-70.

Munt, Sally. 1992. New lesbian criticism: literary and cultural readings. New York: Columbia University Press.

Nardi, Peter M. and Beth E. Schneider. 1998. Social perspectives in Lesbian and gay studies. London: Routledge.

Newton, Esther. 1989. "The mythic mannish lesbian: Radclyffe Hall and the New Woman," in Hidden from history: reclaiming the gay & lesbian past, ed. Martin Duberman, Martha Vicinus and George Chauncey. New York: Meridian, pp. 281-93.

Patton, Cindy. 1990. Inventing AIDS. New York: Routledge.

Penn, Donna. 1993. "The meanings of lesbianism in post-war America," in Gender and American history since 1890, ed. Barbara Melosh, pp. 106-124.

Russo, Vito. 1987. The celluloid closet: homosexuality in the movies. Revised edition. New York: Harper Perennial.

Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. 1990. Espistemology of the closet. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Smith, Patricia Juliana (ed). 1999. The queer sixties. New York: Routledge.

Warner, Michael (ed). 1993. Fear of a queer planet: queer politics and social theory. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.

Weiss, Andrea. 1992. Vampires and violets: lesbians in film. New York: Penguin.

Wishman, Vera. 1996. Queer by choice: lesbians, gay men, and the politics of identity. New York: Routledge.

Wood, Elizabeth. 1995. “The lesbian in the opera: desire unmasked in Smyth’s Fantasio and Fête Galante,” in En travesty, ed. Corinne E. Blackmer and Patricia Juliana Smith. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 285-305.

Zimmerman, Bonnie and Toni A. H. McNaron. 1996. The new lesbian studies: into the twenty-first century. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York.

Zimmerman, Bonnie (ed). 2000. Lesbian histories and cultures. The Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, Vol. 2. New York: Garland Publishing.


Sexology/Psychology/Sex History

Barker-Benfield, G. J. 2000. The horrors of the half-known life: male attitudes towards women and sexuality in nineteenth-century America. Second Edition. New York: Routledge.

Carlston, Erin G. 1997. ""A finer differentiation": female homosexuality and the American medical community, 1926-1940," in Science and homosexualities, edited by Vernon A. Rosario. New York: Routledge, pp. 177-96.

D'Emilio, John and Estelle B. Freedman. 1988. Intimate matters: a history of sexuality in America. New York: Harper & Row.

Ellis, Havelock. 1912. The task of social hygiene. Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company.

Ellis, Havelock. 1928. Studies in the psychology of sex. Vol. 7: Eonism and Other Supplementary Studies. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company.

Ellis, Havelock. 1936. Studies in the psychology of sex. Vol. 2, part 2, Sexual Inversion. New York: Random House, reprint of 1910 edition.

Ellis, Havelock and John Addington Symonds. 1975. Sexual inversion. New York: Arno Press. Reprint of the 1897 ed. published by Wilson and Macmillan which was issued as v. 1 in the author's Studies in the psychology of sex.

Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Myths of gender: biological theories about women and men. Revised edition. New York: Basic Books.

Fausto-Sterling, Anne. 2000. Sexing the body: gender politics and the construction of sexuality. New York: Basic Books.

Fout, John C. and Maura Shaw Tantillo (eds). 1993. American sexual politics: sex, gender, and race since the Civil War. Essays from the Journal of the History of Sexuality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Gibson, Margaret. 1997. "Clitoral corruptin: Body metaphors and American doctors' constructions of female homosexuality, 1870-1900," in Science and homosexualities, edited by Vernon A. Rosario. New York: Routledge, pp. 108-32.

Hale, Nathan G. 1971. Freud and the Americans : the beginnings of psychoanalysis in the United States, 1876-1917. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.

Hale, Nathan G. 1995. The rise and crisis of psychoanalysis in the United States : Freud and the Americans, 1917-1985. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.

Hartley, C. Gasquoine. 1917. Motherhood and the relationship of the sexes. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co.

Hirschfeld, Magnus. 1936. Sexual anomalies and perversions: Physical and psychological development and treatment. London: Francis Aldor.

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Hirschfeld, Magnus. 1948. Sexual anomalies: The origins, nature, and treatment of sexual disorders. A summary of the works of Magnus Hirschfeld, M. D. . . . New York: Emerson Books.

Hirschfeld, Magnus. 1991 Transvestites: the erotic drive to cross dress. Translated by Michael A. Lombardi-Nash. Buffalo: Prometheus Books.

Katz, Jonathon Ned. 1995. The invention of heterosexuality. New York: Dutton.

Kennedy, Hubert. 1997. "Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, first theorist of homosexuality," in Science and homosexualities, edited by Vernon A. Rosario. New York: Routledge, pp. 26-45.

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von. 1893. Psychopathia sexualis: with especial reference to contrary sexual instinct: a medico-legal study. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis.

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von. 1959. Aberrations of sexual life after the Psychopatia Sexualis of Dr.R.v.Kraft-Ebing . . . a medico-legal study for doctors and lawyers brought up to date and issued by Alexander Hartwich, Dr Med. London: Staples Press.

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von. 1965. Psychopathia sexualis: a medico-forensic study. Translated by Dr. Harry E. Wedeck. 1st unexpurgated ed. in English. New York: Putnam.

Lancaster, Roger N and Micaela di Leonardo (eds). The gender & sexuality reader: culture, history, political economy. New York: Routledge.

Latham, Angela J. 2000. Posing a threat: flappers, chorus girls, and other brazen performenrs of the American 1920s. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Wesleyan University Press.

Mayne, Xavier (Edward Prime Stephenson). 1975. The intersexes: a history of simisexualism as a problem in social life. New York: Arno, reprint of 1908 edition.

Melody, M. E. and Linda M. Peterson (eds) 1999. Teaching America about sex: marriage guides and sex manuals from the late Victorians to Dr. Ruth. New York: New York University Press.

Oosterhuis, Harry. 1997. "Richard von Krafft-Ebing's "step-children of nature": psychiatry and the making of homosexual identity," in Science and homosexualities, edited by Vernon A. Rosario. New York: Routledge, pp. 67-88.

Robinson, William J. 1933. Woman: her sex and her love life. 13th edition. New York: Eugenics Publishing Co., originally published 1917.

Rosario, Vernon A. (ed.). 1997. Science and homosexualities. New York: Routledge.

Steakley, James D. 1997. "Per scientum adjustitiam: Magnus Hirschfeld and the sexual politics of innate homosexuality," in Science and homosexualities, edited by Vernon A. Rosario. New York: Routledge, pp. 133-54.

Stekel, Wilhelm. 1952. Sexual aberrations: the phenomena of fetishism in relation to sex. Authorized English version from the 1st German ed. by S. Parker. Introd. by Emil A. Gutheil. New York: Liveright.

Stekel, Wilhelm. 1962. Frigidity in woman, in relation to her love life. Introd. by Emil A. Gutheil. Authorized English version by James S. Van Tesinar. New York: Grove Press.

Ulrichs, Carl Heinrich. 1898. Ara Spei: ethical and social studies on the Uranian question. Leipzig: Verlag von Max Spohr.

Ulrichs, Carl Heinrich. 1994. The riddle of "man-manly" love: the pioneering work on male homosexuality. Translated by Michael A. Lombardi-Nash; introduction by Vern L. Bullough. Buffalo: Prometheus Books.

Verbrugge, Martha H. Able-bodied womanhood: personal health and social change in nineteenth-century Boston. New York: Oxford University Press.


Dance, Gender, and Sexuality Bibliography compiled by Judith Lynne Hanna

Note:  for help locating obscure materials, contact Judith at jlhanna(at)hotmail.com

Books:

1987    To Dance Is Human:  A Theory of Nonverbal Communication.  Revised 1979 edition.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press

1983    The Performer-Audience Connection:  Emotion to Metaphor in Dance and Society.  Austin and London: University of Texas Press (Choice, outstanding book)

1988    Dance, Sex, and Gender:  Signs of Identity, Dominance, Defiance, and Desire.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press

1999    Partnering Dance and Education:  Intelligent Moves for Changing Times.  Champaign, IL:  Human Kinetics Press

2006    Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press [Rowman and Littlefield]  in press

---    Nigeria's Ubakala Igbo Dance:  Life, Death, and the Women's War.  London:  Harwood Academic Publishers, in preparation

Articles:

1977    "African Dance and the Warrior Tradition," in Ali A. Mazrui, ed., The Warrior Tradition in Modern Africa.  Special Issue of Journal of Asian and African Studies 12(1-2):111-133.  Also Leiden:  E.J. Brill (book).  Material in To Dance Is Human.

1979    "Dance and its Social Structure:  The Ubakala of Nigeria," Journal of Communication (The Social Meanings of Art) 29(4):184-191.  Material in To Dance Is Human

1982    "Dance and the Women's War," Dance Research Journal 14(1-2):25-28.  Material in To Dance Is Human, Dance, Sex, and Gender, and Dance and Stress

1983    "Dance and the Cultural Heritage," Proceedings of the International Conference on Children and Youth Dancing, Stockholm, 1982.  Stockholm:  Swedish Division of Dance and the Child, UNESCO affiliated

1986    "Ballets that Shock," Stagebill, Spring (Detroit Book VII), pp. 22, 24, 27, 30

1986    "Movement in African Performance," in Bob Fleshman, ed., Theatrical Movement:  A Bibliographical Anthology.  Metuchen, NJ:  Scarecrow Press, pp. 561-585

1986    "Interethnic Communication in Children's Own Dance, Play, and Protest," in Young Y. Kim, ed. Interethnic Communication (Vol. 10, International and Intercultural Communication Annual).  Newbury Park, CA:  Sage, pp. 176-198

1987    "Patterns of Dominance:  Men, Women, and Homosexuality in Dance," The Drama Review 113, 31(1):24-47.  Material in Dance, Sex and Gender and in Wayne R. Dynes and Stephen Donaldson, eds. Homosexuality and Homosexuals in the Arts.  Vol. 4 of 13-volume Studies in Homosexuality,  New York:  Garland, pp. 198-223, 1992

1987    "Gender Language Onstage:  Moves, New Moves, Countermoves," Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 77(1):18-26

1988    "Do We Teach Sex Roles Through Dance Education?" Dance Teacher Now 10(7):38-41

1989    "African Dance Frame by Frame:  Revelation of Sex Roles Through Distinctive Feature Analysis and Comments on Field Research, Film, and Notation," Journal of Black Studies 19(4):422-441; abstracted in Cultural Anthropology Methods Newsletter 1(2):13, 1989

1990    "Dance and Women's Protest in Nigeria and the United States," in Guida West and Rhoda Lois Blumberg, eds., Women and Social Protest.  New York:  Oxford University Press, pp. 333-345

1990    "Advertising With Dance," in Lynnette Y. Overby and James H. Humphrey, eds., Dance:  Current Selected Research, II.  New York:  AMS Press, pp. 117 136

1992    "Tradition, Challenge, and the Backlash:  Gender Education Through Dance," in Laurence Senelick, ed., Gender and Performance.  Hanover, NH:  The University Press of New England, pp. 223-238

1992    "Moving Messages:  Identity and Desire in Dance," in James Lull, ed., Popular Music and Communication, 2nd Edition.  Newbury Park, CA:  Sage, pp. 176-195

1992    "Shock Troupes:  Helms, Kitty Kat, and So What?" Ballet Review 20(3):85-93

1993    "Classical Indian Dance and Women's Status," in Helen Thomas, ed., Dance, Gender and Culture.  London:  Macmillan, pp. 119-127

1996    "In Defense of Exotic Dance," Exotic Dancer Bulletin 1(3):70, 72

1996    "Exotic Dance, the First Amendment, and Court," AnthroWatch 4(2):12

1997    "Witness to Injustice?" Exotic Dancer Bulletin 2(4):80

1997    "Rasta Thomas:  Extraordinary Boy Next Door," Dance Teacher Now 19(1):65-72

1997    Creativity in Ubakala, Dallas Youth, and Exotic Dance," in R. Keith Sawyer, ed. Creativity in Performance, R. Keith Sawyer, ed.  Norwood, NJ:  Ablex Publishing Corporation, pp. 141-167 

1997    "Nilimma Devi's Touch of India in America," Dance Teacher Now 19(2):97-100, 102

1998    "Undressing the First Amendment and Corsetting the Striptease Dancer," The Drama Review, T158, 42(2):38-69, Summer

1998    "Analysis: The First Amendment and Exotic Dance," National Campaign for Freedom of Expression Quarterly, Autumn, p. 8

1998    "Exotic Dance in Seattle:  The First Amendment and Anthropology," AnthroWatch 6(1):4-6

1998    "In the Courtroom:  The Right to Dance!" Exotic Dancer Bulletin 3(1):20

1998    "Defining Dance in the Courtroom," Exotic Dancer Bulletin 3(3):29

1998    Interview by Vladimir Anguelov: "Die Reinheit der Nachtclubtanzerin und die Erotik der Ballerina," Tanz Affiche 80:28-31

1998    "Feminist Perspectives on Classical Indian Dance," in David Waterhouse, ed., Dance of India (South Asian Studies Papers).  Toronto:  University of Toronto Graduate Centre for South Asian Studies, pp. 193-231

1999    "Toying with the Striptease Dancer and the First Amendment," in Stuart Reifel, ed., Play and Culture Studies, Vol. 2.  Greenwich, CT., Ablex, pp. 37-55
  
1999    "The First Amendment and Defense of Exotic Dance," Anthropology Newsletter 40(4):50-51

1999    "Club News: Washington, D.C. Bureau," Exotic Dancer Bulletin 3(4):74-76

1999    "Here's the Naked Truth," Gazette Community Forum," p. A-17

1999    "Washington, D.C. Bureau," Exotic Dancer Bulletin 3(4):74-76

1999    "Club Owners--Are You Harassing or Discriminating Against Your Dancers?" Exotic Dancer Bulletin 4(1):61

1999    "Arrests In A Family Business," Exotic Dancer Bulletin 4(2):20-21

1999    "The Naked Truth," Exotic Dancer Bulletin 4(2):138-139

1999    "Dance," in David Levinson, James Ponzetti, and Peter Jorgensen, eds., Encyclopedia of Human Emotions, Vol. 1.  New York:  Macmillan, pp. 171-177

2000    “Helping Dancers, Helping Business?” Exotic Dancer Bulletin 5(1):52

2000    “Club Wins First Round of Nudity Battle,” Exotic Dancer Bulletin 5(4):12-13

2001    “Ballet to Exotic Dance – Under the Censorship Watch,” in Janice LaPointe-Crump and Juliette Crone-Willis, compilers, Dancing in the Millennium:  An International Conference, 2000 Proceedings, Washington, DC, pp. 230-234

2001    “The Language of Dance,” JOPERD 72(4):40-45, 53

2001    “Wrapping Nudity In a Cloak of Law,” New York Times, July 29, pp. 14, 18

2001    “What’s in a Name?  A ? of Life or Death & Acceptance or Stigma,” Adult Entertainment Advocate 5(1):2, January 1

2001    “Still Dancing Nude at Class Act,” with Randall D.B. Tigue, Exotic Dancer Bulletin 5(7):8-9, 60

2001*    “Reality and Myth:  What Neighbors Say About Exotic Dance Clubs: A Case Study on Charlotte, North Carolina,” Charlotte, NC: Tarheel Entertainment Association, submitted to the City of Charlotte Zoning Board

2002    “Book Perpetuates Dangerous Myths,” ACE National Newsletter, 2(2):1-2

2002    “The Stigma of Exotic Dance:  Sexy, Not Sex,” Exotic Dancer Bulletin, 7(1): 37

2002*    "Dance Under the Censorship Watch," Journal of Arts Management Law and Society 29(1):1-13

2002    “American Planning Association Volume Would ‘Plan’ Adult Businesses into Oblivion,” (Legal News, Book Review) Adult Video News (AVN) 18(4):218

2002     “If This Is Stripping, What Is Adult Entertainment,” Exotic Dancer Bulletin, 7(3):62

2002    “Exotic Dance Industry Under Fire,” Free Speaker, January, pp. 8-9

2002    “Whose Aesthetics Determine Artistic Merit?” DCA (Dance Critics Association) News,  Summer/Autumn, pp. 7-15

2003    “History of Burlesque on Display at Exotic World Museum,” Exotic Dancer’s Club Bulletin, Feb/March, p. 65

2003    “Review of Eric Damian Kelly and Connie Cooper, Everything you always wanted to know about regulating sex businesses,” Journal of Planning Literature 17(3):45-46

2003    “Exotic Dance Adult Entertainment: Ethnography Challenges False Mythology,” City and Society 15(2):165-193

2003       “Aesthetics -- Whose Notions of Appropriateness & Competency, What Are They and     How Do We Know?” World of Music, Special issue: Cross-Cultural Aesthetics, eds.,       D.A. Avorgbedor and M. P. Baumann, 45(3):29-54

2003       “A Room With a View. Undercover Detectives Said the Dancing at Sugar Daddy’s          Had ‘No Artistic Merit.’ A Jury Disagrees,” Exotic Dancer’s Club Bulletin, June p. 30.

2003        “Who Speaks for Gays in Dance?” Dance Research Journal 34(3), Summer

2003    “Very Bare Bones (Review of Sisters of Salome),” Dance Magazine 77(11):80

2003    “The Supremes Call the Tune” (Supreme Court on Diversity and Privacy), Dance Magazine 77(12):23

2003    “Arte posta a nu,” Gesto (Revista do Centro Coreográfico do Rio) (Brazil), June pp. 24-29

2004    “The First Amendment, Artistic Merit and Nudity in Minnesota: Dance, Criminal Public Indecency and Evidence,” Minnesota Law and Politics Web Magazine www.lawandpolitics.com (click on MN & then web magazine)

    Synopsized: "Artistic Merit in Exotic Dance: A Case Study in Exotic Dancer Jury Trials," Free Speaker, August, pp. 12-14

2004    "Dancing to Celebrate and Help Women," Dancer, December 92, 94  

2005        "Dance Speaks Out on Social Issues," Anthropology News 46(4):11-12       

2005      "'Provocative'" Dancers: Actors with Agency," Anthropology News (Association for               Feminist Anthropology) 46(7):47    

2005       “Adult Entertainment Exotic Dance: A Guide for Planners and Policy Makers” (CPL  
              [Council of Planning Librarians] Bibliography 375), Journal of Planning Literature                  20(2):116-134

2006    "Strip Club FYI," "Gentlemen's Clubs, Councils & Courtrooms," Adult Entertainment Today 2:2 9

2006    "Body to Body, Dimes to Dollars, Adult Entertainment Today, 3:13

2006    "Music and the Art of Seduction: Conference Report," Dance Research Journal (forthcoming)

2006    "'Toxic' Strip Clubs: The Intersection of Religion and Law," under publication review

                   



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