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Bailey, Martha J., “‘Momma’s Got the Pill’: How Anthony Comstock and Griswold v. Connecticut Shaped U.S. Childbearing,” American Economic Review, 100 (March 2010), 98–129.

Ehrlich, J. Shoshanna, “You Can Steal Her Virginity but Not Her Doll: The Nineteenth Century Campaign to Raise the Legal Age of Sexual Consent,” Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender, 15 (Winter 2009), 229–46.

Gillmer, Jason A., “Base Wretches and Black Wenches: A Story of Sex and Race, Violence and Compassion, during Slavery Times,” Alabama Law Review, 59 (no. 5, 2008), 1501–54.

Greene, Jane M., “Hollywood’s Production Code and Thirties Romantic Comedy,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (Abingdon), 30 (March 2010), 55–73.

Hernández, César Cuauhtémoc García, “Of Inferior Stock: The Two-Pronged Repression of Radical Immigrant Birth Control Advocates at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” St. Thomas Law Review, 20 (Spring 2008), 513–37.

Lee, Chang Shin, “Yeoseongeui yukchaee daehan yeoseongeui geolli” (The woman’s right to the woman’s body: Margaret Sanger and the birth control movement in the United States), Mikuthak Nonjip/Korean Journal of American Studies, 40 (no. 2, 2008), 215–50. In Korean.

Midtrød, Tom Arne, “The Flemish Bastard and the Former Indians: Métis and Identity in Seventeenth-Century New York,” American Indian Quarterly, 34 (Winter 2010), 83–108.

Piekut, Benjamin, “New Thing? Gender and Sexuality in the Jazz Composers Guild,” American Quarterly, 62 (March 2010), 25–48.

Silberman, Marsha, “The Perfect Storm: Late Nineteenth-Century Chicago Sex Radicals; Moses Harman, Ida Craddock, Alice Stockham, and the Comstock Obscenity Laws,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 102 (Fall–Winter 2009), 324–67.

Tunc, Tanfer Emin, “Talking Sex: Deciphering Dialogues of American Female Sexuality in the Mosher Survey, 1892–1920,” Journal of Women’s History, 22 (Spring 2010), 130–53.

 

Adams, James H., “The Problem of Ages: Prostitution in the Philadelphia Imagination, 1880–1940” (Temple University, 2009). Order No. DA3359607.

Galik, Angela E., “Queer Texts and the Cold War: How Nationalism and Domesticity Shaped U.S. Lesbian and Gay Writing, 1945–1960” (University of Minnesota, 2009). Order No. DA3360347.

Hsu, Stephanie, “Transgender Transnationalism: Representations of Immigrant Genders and Sexualities in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century American Literature” (New York University, 2009). Order No. DA3360479.

Johnson, Stephen Patrick, “Staying Power: The Mainstreaming of the Hard-Core Pornographic Film Industry, 1969–1990” (University of Maryland, College Park, 2009). Order No. DA3359387.

Lapsley, Joseph, “Rethinking Sex and Gender: The Intellectual Upheavals of the Sexual Revolution” (University of Illinois, Chicago, 2009). Order No. DA3364617.

Mehlman-Petrzela, Natalia Yael, “Origins of the Culture Wars: Sex, Language, School, and State in California, 1968–1978” (Stanford University, 2009). Order No. DA3365516.

Welch, Melanie K., “Politics and Poverty: Women’s Reproductive Rights in Arkansas, 1942–1980” (Auburn University, 2009). Order No. DA3365573.

Wood, L. Maren, “Dangerous Liasons: Narratives of Sexual Danger in the Anglo-American North, 1770–1820” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009). Order No. DA3366446.

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