Margaret A. Lowe, Looking Good: College Women and Body Image, 1875–1930 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003); Elizabeth Alice Clement, Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900–1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006); and Christina Simmons, Making Marriage Modern: Women’s Sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009).
40. D’Emilio additionally contends “capitalism has created conditions that allow some men and women to organize a personal life around their erotic/emotional attraction to their own sex.” John D’Emilio, “Capitalism and Gay Identity,” in Powers of Desire: The Politics of Sexuality, ed. Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983), 100–113 (quotes on 110, 109, 104). For allied analysis regarding capitalism and sexuality, see Robert A. Padgug, “Sexual Matters: On Conceptualizing Sexuality in History,” in Passion and Power: Sexuality in History, ed. Kathy Peiss and Christina Simmons with Robert A. Padgug (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989), 14–31. For critical analysis of gender, the body, and the transition to capitalism, see Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body, and Primitive Accumulation, rev. ed. (Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia, 2014).
41. George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890–1940 (New York: Basic Books, 1994), 126.
42. Margot Canaday, The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009), 3.
43. Cheryl D. Hicks, Talk with You like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890–1935 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010), 225. See also LaKisha Michelle Simmons, Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015).
44. Hicks, Talk with You like a Woman, 225. For another crucial study of the gendering of interracial same-sex sexuality, see Regina G. Kunzel, Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).
45. Pablo Mitchell, “Accomplished Ladies and Coyotes: Marriage, Power, and Straying from the Flock in Territorial New Mexico, 1880–1920,” in Sex, Love, Race: Crossing Boundaries in North American History, ed. Martha Hodes (New York: NYU Press, 1999), 331–51; Victor Jew, “‘Chinese Demons’: The Violent Articulation of Chinese Otherness and Interracial Sexuality in the U.S. Midwest, 1885–1889,” Journal of Social History 37, no. 2 (2003): 389–410; Mary Ting Yi Lui, The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the Century New York City (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005); Lui, “Saving Young Girls from Chinatown: White Slavery and Woman Suffrage, 1910–1920,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 18, no. 3 (2009): 393–417. For important discussion of why marriages between Native American men and white women were not necessarily deemed problematic during the nineteenth century, see C. Joseph Genetin-Pilawa, “‘All Intent on Seeing the White Woman Married to the Red Man’: The Parker/Sackett Affair and the Public Spectacle of Intermarriage,” Journal of Women’s History 20, no. 2 (2008): 57–85. For allied analysis that explores sexuality in indigenous law, see Fay Yarbrough, “Legislating Women’s Sexuality: Cherokee Marriage Laws in the Nineteenth Century,” Journal of Social History 38, no. 2 (2004): 385–406.
46. Amy Sueyoshi, “Intimate Inequalities: Interracial Affection and Same, Sex, Love in the ‘Heterosexual’ Life of Yone Noguchi, 1897–1909,” Journal of American Ethnic History 29, no. 4 (2010): 38.
47. Nayan Shah, “Between ‘Oriental Depravity’ and ‘Natural Degenerates’: Spatial Borderlands and the Making of Ordinary Americans,” American Quarterly 57, no. 3 (September 2005): 703–25. See also Shah, Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West, American Crossroads 31 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011).
48. Peggy Pascoe, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009), 191, 119.
49. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, “The Beauty and the Freak,” Michigan Quarterly Review 37, no. 3 (Summer 1998), http://quod.lib.umich.edu.
50. Peter Kolchin, “Whiteness Studies: The New History of Race in America,” Journal of American History 89, no. 1 (2002): 160. See also Thomas A. Guglielmo, White on Arrival: Italians, Race, Color, and Power in Chicago, 1890–1945 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). For a decidedly different take on whiteness studies, see Wickberg, “Heterosexual White Male,” 136–57.
51. Rogers Brubaker and Frederick Cooper, “Beyond ‘Identity,’” Theory and Society 29, no. 1 (2000): 1–47.
52. Berlant and Warner, “Sex in Public,” 552.
53. Sharon Marcus, “Queer Theory for Everyone: A Review Essay,” Signs 31, no. 1 (2005): 191–218.
54. Laura Doan, “Sex Education and the Great War Soldier: A Queer Analysis of the Practice of ‘Hetero’ Sex,” Journal of British Studies 51, no. 3 (2012): 663.
55. The Feminists’ manifesto originally appeared in Notes from the Second Year: Women’s Liberation; Major Writings of the Radical Feminists (New York: Radical Feminism, 1970) and was reprinted in Radical Feminism, ed. Anne Koedt, Ellen Levine, and Anita Rapone (New York: Quadrangle Books, 1973), 375, 376. As Martha Shelley wrote in “Lesbianism and the Women’s Liberation Movement,” “Love can only exist between equals, not between the oppressed and the oppressor.” Shelley, “Lesbianism and the Women’s Liberation Movement,” in Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader, ed. Barbara A. Crow (New York: NYU Press, 2000), 308. See also a critique of “the heterosexual institution” in Anne Koedt, “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm,” in Notes from the Second Year, a reprint of her 1968 article, available at http://collections.mun.ca. Yet another example: Charlotte Bunch of The Furies warned that heterosexual privilege remained a problem for the women’s liberation movement: “As long as women still benefit from heterosexuality, receive its privileges and security, they will at some point have to betray their sisters, especially lesbian sisters who do not receive those benefits.” Bunch, “Lesbians in Revolt,” in Crow, Radical Feminism, 336.
56. “Is Homosexuality Natural?,” in Gay Liberation (February 1970), 5, available at http://paganpressbooks.com.