Global History of Sexuality

Robert Buffington is an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. His books include Criminal and Citizen in Modern Mexico (2000), Reconstructing Criminality in Modern Latin America (co-edited with Carlos Aguirre, 2000), Mexico: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Culture and History (with Don Coerver and Suzanne Pasztor, 2004), True Stories of Crime in Modern Mexico (co-edited with Pablo Piccato, 2009), and Keen’s Latin American Civilization, 9th edition (co-edited with Lila Caimari, 2009).Eithne Luibhéid is an Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border (2002) and Pregnant on Arrival: Making the ‘Illegal’ Immigrant (2013), as well as co-editor of Queer Migration: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, and Border Crossings (2005).Donna J. Guy is Distinguished Professor of Humanities and History at Ohio State University. Her publications include Feminisms and Internationalism (co-edited with Mrinalini Sinha and Angela Woollacott, Blackwell, 2000), White Slavery and Mothers Alive and Dead (2000)and Women Build the Welfare State: Performing Charity and Creating Rights in Argentina, 1880-1955 (2009).

“Each essay draws on an impressive array of secondary sources and the authors’ own primary research to highlight how the discourses and practices of sexuality that most people take for granted are in fact expressions of global, socially constructed, and historically contingent patterns.”  (H-Histsex, March 2015)

• Notes on Contributors viiAcknowledgments ixMaps x1 Introduction 1Robert M. Buffington2 Sexuality and the Nation-State 17Sabine Frühstück3 Sexuality and Modern Imperialism 57Mytheli Sreenivas4 Sex and Disease from Syphilis to AIDS 89Laura J. McGough and Katherine E. Bliss5 Sexuality and International Migration 119Eithne Luibhéid6 Sex Trafficking 151Robert M. Buffington and Donna J. Guy7 Sexuality and Mass Media 195Hai Ren8 Sexuality and the Contemporary World: Globalization and Sexual Rights 221Richard Parker, Jonathan Garcia, and Robert M. BuffingtonIndex 261