InhaltsangabeNotes 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 PENÃ 229 Index 247

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Kevin P. Murphy is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Political Manhood: Red Bloods, Mollycoddles, and the Politics of Progressive Era Reform (2008), co-editor of Queer Twin Cities (2010), and co-editor of "Queer Futures," a special issue of the Radical History Review (2008). Jennifer M. Spear is Assistant Professor of History at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans (2009).

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Notes on Contributors. Introduction: Kevin P. Murphy and Jennifer M. Spear. 1. Imagining Cihuacoatl: Masculine Rituals, Nahua Goddesses and the Texts of the Tlacuilos: Pete Sigal (Duke University). 2. Power and Historical Figuring: Rachael Pringle Polgreen''s Troubled Archive: Marisa J. Fuentes (Rutgers University). 3. Gender, Sexuality and the Formation of Racial Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Caribbean World: Brooke N. Newman (University of Oxford, Yale University). 4. Xing: The Discourse of Sex and Human Nature in Modern China: Leon Antonio Rocha (Needham Research Institute, University of Cambridge). 5. Epistemic Modernity and the Emergence of Homosexuality in China: Howard Chiang (Princeton University). 6. Overcoming ''Simply Being'': Straight Sex, Masculinity and Physical Culture in Modern Egypt: Wilson Chacko Jacob (Concordia University). 7. Monitoring and Medicalising Male Sexuality in Semi-Colonial Egypt: Hanan Kholoussy (American University in Cairo). 8. The Volatility of Sex: Intersexuality, Gender and Clinical Practice in the 1950s: Sandra Eder (Johns Hopkins University). 9. ''A Certain Amount of Prudishness'': Nudist Magazines and the Liberalisation of American Obscenity Law, 1947-58: Brian Hoffman (University of California). 10. Cold War Conflicts and Cheap Cabaret: Sexual Politics at the 1975 United Nations International Women''s Year Conference: Jocelyn Olcott (Duke University). 11. Gender and Sexuality in Latina/o Miami: Documenting Latina Transsexual Activists: Susana Pena (Bowling Green State University). Index.