PUBLICATIONS

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Monographs & Edited Volumes

  1. Solitary Pleasures: The Historical, Literary and Artistic Discourses of Autoeroticism . Co-editor with Paula Bennett. New York: Routledge, 1995.
  2. Science and Homosexualities. Editor. New York: Routledge, 1997.
  3. The Erotic Imagination: French Histories of Perversity . New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
  4. L'irrésistible ascension du pervers entre littérature et psychiatrie. Trans. Guy Le Gaufey. Paris: Editions et Publications de l’Ecole Lacanienne, 2000.
  5. Homosexuality and Science. A Guide to the Debates . Controversies in the Sciences series, ed. Daniel Kevles. Foreword by Richard Pillard. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio Press, 2002.
  6. Litoral 33: Una Analitica Pariasitaria Raro, Muy Raro. Jean Allouch, Vernon Rosario, Mayette Viltard. Buenos Aires, 2003.
  7. Guest editor, special volume on Intersexuality, Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy 10(2), 2006.
  8. Guest editor, special volume on Gender Variant Children and Adolescents, Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health 15(1), 2011.

Articles - Peer Reviewed Journals

  1. "Sexual Liberalism and Compulsory Heterosexuality." Journal of Contemporary French Civilization 16 (1992): 262-79.
  2. "Gay Genes: Analyzing the Evidence of Experience." Gender and Psychoanalysis 5(3) (2000): 209-219.
  3. "Science and Sexual Identity." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 57 (Jan 2002): 79-85.
  4. "An Interview with Martha J. Kirkpatrick, M.D." Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy 6 (2002): 85-98.
  5. "Perversion sexuelle et transsensualisme, Historicité des théories, variations des pratiques cliniques." L’Unbévue (Journal of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis) 19 (Spring 2002): 91-104.
  6. "An Interview with Judd Marmor, MD." Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy 7(4) (2003): 23-34.
  7. "The Biology of Gender and the Construction of Sex?" GLQ 10.2 (2004: 280-287.
  8. "Qué Joto Bonita! Transgender Negotiations of Sex and Ethnicity." Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy 8.1-2 (2004): 89-97.
  9. "Transforming Sex: An Interview with Joanne Meyerowitz author of How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States". Studies in Gender and Sexuality 5 (2004): 473-483.
  10. "An Interview with Cheryl Chase." Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy 10(2) (2006): 93-104.
  11. "Quantum Sex: Intersex and the Molecular Deconstruction of Sex." GLQ 15.2 (2009): 267-284.
  12. "African-American Transgender Youth." Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health 13 (2009): 298-308.
  13. "Gender Variance: An Ongoing Challenge to Medico-psychiatric Nosology."  Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health 15(1) (2011): 1-7.
  14. "The GAP Online LGBT Mental Health Curriculum." Co-authored with Mary E. Barber, Jack Drescher. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health 16 (2012):41-48.
  15. "Fustigating the 'One-Sex-Body' Thesis."  Studies in History and Philosophy of Biologal and Biomedical Sciences  48(A) (2014): 112-114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsc.2014.06.007
  16. "Hurdling Over Sex? Sport, Science, and Equity." Co-authors: Nathan Q. Ha, Shari L. Dworkin, María Martínez-Patiño, Alan D. Rogol, Francisco J. Sanchez, Alison Wrynn, Eric Vilain.  Archives of Sexual Behavior 43 (2014):1035-1042.
  17. "Cultural competence and LGBT issues in psychiatry."  Psychiatric Times 32(7)(2015): 24-27.
  18. "The Growing Regulation of Conversion Therapy." Co-authored with the  GAP LGBT  Committee.  Journal of Medical Regulation 102(2)(2016): 7-12. (Winner of 2018 Federation of State Medical Boards Award for Excellence in Editorial Writing.)
  19. "Historical and Clinical Experiences Across the Gender Spectrum:  An Interview with Vernon Rosario by William Cornell." By Editor W. Cornell. Transactional Analysis Journal (2017).  DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0362153717719031.
  20. "Psychosocial Screening in DSD: Psychometric Evaluation of the Psychosocial Assessment Tool." M.M. Ernst, M. Gardner, C. A. Mara, D.E. Sandberg and in collaboration with the DSD-TRN Leadership Group and the DSD-TRN Psychosocial Workgroup. Hormone Research in Pediatrics 90(2018):368-380.

Articles - Non-Peer Reviewed Journals

  1. "Larry Miller" [an AIDS case study]. Co-authored with LeBaron Moseby. In The Harvard Medical School AIDS Casebook, ed. Harvey Makadon. Boston: Harvard Medical School, 1992.
  2. "Brown Skin, Gay Masks," HQ 3(2) (1994): 4-6, 27.
  3. "Genes in the Service of Gay Pride." In The Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review 4(1) (Winter 1997): 24-25.
    Reprinted in The Best of the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review. Ed. Richard Schenider, Jr., 99-101. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997.
  4. "Rise and Fall of the Medical Model: The Pathologization of Homosexuality from 1881 to 1973." In The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review 6(4) (Fall 1999): 31-34.
  5. "Transgenderism Comes of Age." The Gay & Lesbian Review 7(4) (Fall 2000): 31-33.
  6. "The 'Gay Gene' Is Born." The Gay & Lesbian Review 8(5) (2001):13-16.
  7. "The Science of Sexual Liberation." The Gay and Lesbian Review 9(6) (2002):37-38.
  8. " 'Is It a Boy or a Girl?' Introduction to Special Issue on Intersexuality." Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy 10(2) (2006): 1-7.
  9. "The Fate of Sodomy Law in the U.S." Gay & Lesbian Review 15(6) (2008): 19-21.
  10. "The New Science of Intersex." Gay and Lesbian Review 16(5) (2009): 21-23.
  11. "Of Genes, Genitals, and Gender." Gay and Lesbian Review 18(4) (2011): 9-13.
  12. "Is Sexual Orientation Research Biased?" Gay & Lesbian Review 19(4) (2012): 24-26.
  13. "Rise and Fall of the Medical Model." Gay & Lesbian Review 19(6) (2012): 39-41.
  14. "Deep History of the AIDS Virus." Gay & Lesbian Review 20(1) (2013): 32-34.
  15. "How 'Sex' Undid John Money." Gay & Lesbian Review 23(1) (2016): 18-21.
  16. "On the Medicalization of Gender."  Gay & Lesbian Review 24(1) (2017): 25-27.
  17. "Magnus Hirschfeld Rediscovered." Gay & Lesbian Review 25(2) (2018): 29-31.
  18. "When Is a Gang Not a 'Gang'?"  Gay & Lesbian Review  25(4) (2018): 33-34.
  19. "Drag Kings in the Music Halls." Gay & Lesbian Review  25(6) (2018): 23-24.
  20. "Before Boystown." Gay & Lesbian Review  26(2) (2019): 23-25.
  21.  "Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France."  Gay & Lesbian Review (Nov.-Dec. 2020).
  22.  "Gender Science Marches On."  Gay & Lesbian Review 28(1) (Jan. 2021): 14-16.
  23.  "Male Bonding in the Middle Ages."  Gay & Lesbian Review 28(3)(2021): 15-18.
  24.  "Rise and Fall of the Medical Model."  Gay & Lesbian Review 29(6)(2022): 20-23.
  25.  "The Skeleton in the Old Left's Closet."  Gay & Lesbian Review 30(3)(2023): 25-29.
  26.  "The Quest for Sex in the Middle Ages."  Gay & Lesbian Review 30(5)(2023): 30-34.

Chapters

  1. "Olfaction and the Primitive: Nineteenth-Century Thinking on Olfaction." Co-authored with Anne Harrington. In Olfaction and the Central Nervous System, ed. Michael Serby and Karen Chobor, 3-27. New York: Springer Verlag, 1992.
  2. "Phantastical Pollutions: The public threat of private vice in France." In Solitary Pleasures: The Historical, Literary, and Artistic Discourses of Autoeroticism, eds. Paula Bennett and Vernon Rosario II, 101-30. New York: Routledge, 1995.
  3. "Pointy Penises, Fashion Crimes, and Hysterical Mollies: The Pederasts’ Inversions." In Homosexuality in Modern France, ed. Jeffrey W. Merrick and Bryant Ragan, 146-76. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
  4. "Trans [Homo] Sexuality? Double Inversion, Psychiatric Confusion, and Hetero-Hegemony." In Queer Studies: A Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, Transsexual Anthology, ed. Brett Beemyn and Mickey Eliason, 35-51. New York: New York University Press, 1996.
  5. "Homosexual Bio-Histories: Genetic Nostalgias and the Quest for Paternity." In Science and Homosexualities , ed. Vernon Rosario, 1-25. New York: Routledge, 1997.
  6. "Inversion’s Histories | History’s Inversions: Novelizing Fin-de-siècle Homosexuality." In Science and Homosexualities , ed. Vernon Rosario, 89-107. New York: Routledge, 1997.
  7. "Histoires d’inversion: Novelizing Homosexuality at the Fin-de-Siècle." In Articulations of Difference: Gender Studies and Writing in French , ed. Lawrence Schehr and Dominique Fisher, 100-18. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
  8. "Masturbation." In Gay Histories and Cultures. Ed. George Haggerty, 572-73. New York: Garland Press, 2000.
  9. "Medicine and Homosexuality." In Reader’s Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies, ed. Timothy Murphy. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000.
  10. "Phallic Performance: Phalloplasty and the Techniques of Sex." In Body Parts: Critical Explorations in Corporeality , ed. Christopher Forth and Ivan Dalley-Crozier, 177-190. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (2005).
  11. "On Sexual Perversion and Transsensualism." In Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives/Perspectives on Psychoanalysis, ed. Dany Nobus & Lisa Downing, 323-342. London: Karnac Books (2006).
  12. "The History of Aphallia and the Intersexual Challenge to Sex/Gender." In The Blackwell Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies , ed. George E. Haggerty & Molly McGarry, 262-281. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing (2007).
  13. "Sex and Heredity at the Fins-de-Siècle." In Sexuality at the Fin-de-Siècle: The Makings of a "Central Problem," ed. Peter Cryle & Christopher Forth. Newark, DE, University of Delaware Press (2008).
  14. "Studs, Stems, and Fishy Boys:  Adolescent Latino Gender Variance and the Slippery Diagnosis of Transsexuality." In Transgender Experience: Place, Ethnicity, and Visibility, ed. Chantal Zabus & David Coad, 51-67. New York: Routledge (2014).
  15. "Baby I Was Born This Way!" Forward to the American Edition of the Novel of an Invert. Ed. Michael Rosenfeld with William A. Peniston. Trans. Nancy Erber and William A. Peniston.  New York, NY: Columbia University Press. (2022): xvii-xx .
     

Book Reviews

  1. Yves de Smet. La neuropsychologie ‘pré-corticale’: Histoire de la localisation et de la constitution des ‘fonctions mentales supérieures’ de Thalès de Milet à Franz Josef Gall. In Bulletin of the History of Medicine 64 (1990): 300-1.
  2. Eugene Webb. The Self Between: From Freud to the New Social Psychology of France. In Isis 85 (1994): 541-2.
  3. Vern L. Bullough. Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research. In Journal of the History of Medicine 50 (1995):154-55.
  4. Domna C. Stanton, ed. Discourses of Sexuality from Aristotle to AIDS In Bulletin of the History of Medicine 69 (1995): 332-35.
  5. Sander Gilman, Helen King, Roy Porter, G. S. Rousseau, Elaine Showalter. Hysteria Beyond Freud In Journal of the History of Medicine 50 (1995): 418-20.
  6. Mark S. Micale, ed. and intro. Beyond the Unconscious: Essays of Henri F. Ellenberger in the History of Psychiatry In Journal of the History of Medicine 50 (1995): 582-83.
  7. Richard Trexler. Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas In American Indian Culture and Research Journal 20 (1996): 245-48.
  8. Simon LeVay. Queer Science In The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review 3(4) (1997): 42-43.
  9. Bernice Hausman. Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender. In Configurations 5 (1997): 243-46.
  10. Julia Epstein. Altered Conditions: Disease, Medicine, and Storytelling In The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review 4(3) (1997): 39-40.
  11. Steven Epstein.  Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge.  Isis  88(4) (1997): 693-694.
  12. Timothy F. Murphy. Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research In The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review 5(4) (1998): 48-49.
  13. Alice Domurat Dreger. Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex . In The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review 6(2) (1999): 52-53.
  14. Paula Treichler. How to Have Theory in an Epidemic: Cultural Chronicles of AIDS In Committee on Lesbian and Gay History Newsletter 14(2) (Spring 2000): 33-35.
  15. "Where Gay and Straight Don't Suffice." Annick Prieur. Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos. In The Gay & Lesbian Review 8(3) (May-June 2001):38-39.
  16. "The Interpretation of Disease." Peter L. Allen. The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present In The Gay & Lesbian Review 8(6) (Nov-Dec 2001): 36-37.
  17. Henry L. Minton, Departing From Deviance: A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in America In American Historical Review 107(5) (2002):1598-99.
  18. Robert A. Brookey. Reinventing the Male Homosexual: The Rhetric and Power of the Gay Gene In The Gay & Lesbian Review 10(4) (July-Aug. 2003):40-41.
  19. James N. Green, Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil. In The Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy 7(4) (2003): 95-96.
  20. J. Michael Bailey. The Man Who Would Be Queen. In The Gay & Lesbian Review 10(6)(2003): 47.
  21. Joanne Meyerowitz. How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States In The Gay & Lesbian Review 10(6)(2003): 47.
  22. Thomas Laqueur. Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation. In Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2004, 78: 908-909.
  23. Deborah Rudacille. The Riddle of Gender: Science Activism and Transgender Rights. In The Gay & Lesbian Review 13(3): 3941.
  24. Duncan Osborne. Suicide Tuesday: Gay Men and the Crystal Meth Scare. In The Gay & Lesbian Review 13(6)(2006): 35-37.
  25. Marcia Gallo. Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement. In The Gay & Lesbian Review 14(5)(2007): 31-32.
  26. Steven Seidman. Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life. In The Journal of Gay & Lesbian Psychotherapy 11 (2007): 192-194.
  27. Richard C. Keller. Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa. In H-France Review 8(7) (January 2008).
  28. Joseph A. Massad. Desiring Arabs. In The Gay & Lesbian Review
  29. Lisa M. Diamond. Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love and Desire. In History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 30 (2008): 449-486.
  30. Andrew Koppelman, with Tobias Barrington. A Right to Discriminate? How the Case of Boy Scouts of America v. James Dale Warped the Law of Free Association. In The Gay & Lesbian Review 17(1)(2010): 39-40.
  31. Mary L. Gray.  Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America. In The Gay & Lesbian Review 17(3) (2010): 39.
  32. Moe Meyer. An Archaeology of Posing: Essays on Camp, Drag, and Sexuality. In The Gay & Lesbian Review 18(5) (2011): 41.
  33. Jacques Balthazart.  The Biology of Homosexuality.  In The Gay & Lesbian Review 20(5) (2013):39-40.
  34. Chiara Beccalossi. Female Sexual Inversion: Same-Sex Desires in Italian and British Sexology, c. 1870-1920. In American Historical Review 118 (2013):1242-1243.
  35. Mary McAuliffe.  Twilight of the Belle Epoque:  The Paris of Picasso, Proust, Renault, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein and Their Friends through the Great War. In The Gay & Lesbian Review 22(3) (2015): 40.
  36. Tom Linkinen. Same-Sex Sexuality in Later Medieval English Culture.  In The Gay & Lesbian Review 23(4)(2016): 35-36.
  37. Wendy Doniger. Redeeming the Kama Sutra. In The Gay & Lesbian Review 23(5) (2016):30-31.
  38. Clayton J. Whisnant.  Queer Identities and Politics in Germany: A History, 1880-1945.  In The Gay & Lesbian Review 23(6)(2016): 35-36.
  39. Ritch C. Savin-Williams.  Becoming Who I Am: Young Men on Being Gay.  In The Gay & Lesbian Review 24(4) (2017):34-35.
  40. Lynn Comella.  Vibrator Nation: How feminist sex-toy stores changed the business of pleasure.  In The Gay & Lesbian Review 24(5) (2017): 33-34.
  41. Amin Ghaziani.  Sex Cultures.  In The Gay & Lesbian Review 24(6) (2017): 34-35.
  42. Zeb Tortorici. Sins Against Nature: Sex & Archives in Colonial New Spain. In The Gay & Lesbian Review 26(4) (2019): 33-34.
  43. Benjamin Kahan. The Book of Minor Perverts: Sexology, Etiology, and the Emergences of Sexuality. Gay & Lesbian Review 26(6) (2019): 40-41.
  44. Paul Baker. Fabulosa! The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language. Gay & Lesbian Review 27(3): 37-38.
  45. Jeffrey Escoffier. Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography.  Gay & Lesbian Review (Jan-Feb 2021).
  46. Gregory D. Smithers. Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal and Sovereignty in Native America.  Gay & Lesbian Review (July-Aug.2022).
  47. Anthony C. Ocampo. Brown and Gay in LA.  Gay & Lesbian Review 30(1)(2023): 37-38.
  48. Elyssa Maxx Goodman. Glitter and Concrete.  Gay & Lesbian Review 31(2)(2024): 37-38.