Historicising Gender and Sexuality features a diversecollection of essays that shed new light on the historicalintersections between gender and sexuality across time and space.* Demonstrates both the particularities of specific formulationsof gender and sexuality and the nature of the relationship betweenthe categories themselves* Presents evidence that careful and contextualised analysis ofthe shifting relationship of gender and sexuality illuminatesbroader historical processes

Notes on Contributors viiIntroductionKEVIN P. MURPHY and JENNIFER M. SPEAR 11 Imagining Cihuacoatl: Masculine Rituals, Nahua Goddesses andthe Texts of the TlacuilosPETE SIGAL 122 Power and Historical Figuring: Rachael PringlePolgreen's Troubled ArchiveMARISA J. FUENTES 383 Gender, Sexuality and the Formation of Racial Identities inthe Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Caribbean WorldBROOKE N. NEWMAN 594 Xing: The Discourse of Sex and Human Nature in ModernChinaLEON ANTONIO ROCHA 775 Epistemic Modernity and the Emergence of Homosexuality inChinaHOWARD CHIANG 1036 Overcoming 'Simply Being': Straight Sex,Masculinity and Physical Culture in Modern EgyptWILSON CHACKO JACOB 1327 Monitoring and Medicalising Male Sexuality in Semi-ColonialEgyptHANAN KHOLOUSSY 1518 The Volatility of Sex: Intersexuality, Gender and ClinicalPractice in the 1950sSANDRA EDER 1669 'A Certain Amount of Prudishness': NudistMagazines and the Liberalisation of American Obscenity Law,1947-58BRIAN HOFFMAN 18210 Cold War Conflicts and Cheap Cabaret: Sexual Politics at the1975 United Nations International Women's YearConferenceJOCELYN OLCOTT 20711 Gender and Sexuality in Latina/o Miami: Documenting LatinaTranssexual ActivistsSUSANA PENÃ 229Index 247