Patricia Cline Cohen, Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz, and in association with the American Antiquarian Society
The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York
"Cohen, Gilfoyle and Horowitz, history professors and chroniclers of 19th-century American sexuality, offer an engaging scholarly examination of the little-known weekly newspapers that reported on the sexual underworld of 1840s New York.… A thorough account of this quirky, salacious moment in journalism, readers familiar with New York will find a city both foreign and familiar, and a sense that the local weekly used to be a lot more fun."—Publishers Weekly
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Elizabeth Bernstein
Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex
"Combining bold claims about changes in the global sexual economy with deep empathy for sex workers themselves, Elizabeth Bernstein uses perceptive ethnography in San Francisco, Stockholm, and Amsterdam to illuminate contemporary change and variation in the sale of sexual services."—Viviana A. Zelizer, Princeton University

   

Regina Kunzel
Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
"Written with elegance and argued with verve. In this brilliant analysis, Kunzel uses sex in prison to rewrite the history of modern sexual identity. Through meticulous research, she shows us how concerns about sex refracted shifting anxieties about class, race, gender, family, and violence."—Joanne Meyerowitz, author of How Sex Changed

   

Angus McLaren
Impotence: A Cultural History
"A lively academic study of male impotence. … McLaren offers a dynamic survey of masculinity, perceptions of impotence, and the never-ending search for help with male sexual dysfunction. … Not a clinical guide to managing male sexual dysfunction, this work is instead a more complete cultural history of impotence than is found in any medically oriented approach to the topic."—Library Journal
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Edited by Edward O. Laumann, Stephen Ellingson, Jenna Mahay, Anthony Paik, and Yoosik Youm
The Sexual Organization of the City
"Laumann and his team of researchers use the data from a 1995 survey of four Chicago neighborhoods to map out the mating habits of urbanites.…Neighborhoods play a critical role in how we choose partners for brief sexual encounters and long-term engagements."—Chicago
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