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Abelove, Henry, 1993.  "Freud, Male Homosexuality, and the Americans." in Abelove, Barale, and Halperin, eds., The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader.

Aberle, Sophie D., and Corner, George W., 1953.  Twenty Five Years of Sex Research:  History of the National Research Council Committee for Research in Problems of Sex.  Philadelphia:  Saunders.

Allen, Michael S., 1995.  "Sullivan's Closet:  A Reappraisal of Harry Stack Sullivan's Life and His Pioneering Role in American Psychiatry."  Journal of Homosexuality, v.29 no. 1.

Bayer, Ronald, 1987.  Homosexuality and American Psychiatry:    The Politics of Diagnosis.  Princeton:  Princeton University Press.

Beach, Frank, 1949.  "Comments on the Second Dialogue in Corydon."  in Andre Gide, Corydon.

Benedict, Ruth, 1934.  "Anthropology and the Abnormal."    Journal of General Psychology, v. 10 no. 2.  Reprinted in Margaret Mead, ed., 1959.  An Anthropologist at Work:  Writings of Ruth Benedict.   Boston:  Houghton Mifflin.

Bergler, Edmund, 1956.  Homosexuality:  Disease or Way of Life?  New York:  Hill and Wang.

Bieber, Irving, 1962.  Homosexuality:  A Psychoanalytic Study.  New York:  Basic Books.

Bland, Lucy and Laura Doan, eds., 1998.  Sexology in Culture:   Labelling Bodies and Desires.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

Bland, Lucy and Laura Doan, eds., 1998.  Sexology Uncensored:   The Documents of Sexual Science.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Brecher, E. M., 1969.  The Sex Researchers.  Boston:    Little, Brown.

Bullough, Vern L., 1994.  Science in the Bedroom:  A History of Sex Research.  New York:  Basic Books.

Carlston, Erin G., 1997.  "'A Finer Differentiation:'    Female Homosexuality and the American Medical Community, 1926-1940." in Vernon Rosario, ed., Science and Homosexualities.

Cochran, William, Frederick Mosteller, and  John W. Tukey, 1954.  Statistical Problems of the Kinsey Report on Sexual Behavior in the Human Male:   A Report of the American Statistical Association Committee to Advise the National Research Council Committee for Research in Problems of Sex.  Washington:    American Statistical Association.

Combe, Andrew, 1847.  The Principles of Physiology Applied to the Preservation of Health, and to the Improvement of Physical and Mental Education.    New York:  Fowler and Wells.

Duberman, Martin, 1991.  Cures:  A Gay Man's Odyssey.    New York:  Plume.

Ellis, Albert, 1951.  The Folklore of Sex.  New York:  Charles Boni.

Ellis, Albert and Albert Abarbanel, eds., 1961.  The Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior.  New York:  Hawthorn Books.

Ellis, Havelock, 1897.  Sexual Inversion.  London:    Wilson and Macmillan.  Reprinted 1994, Salem, NH:  Ayer.

Ellis, Havelock, 1919.  Sexual Inversion, Third Edition.    Philadelphia:  F. A. Davis.

Faderman, Lillian, 1986.  "Love Between Women in 1928:    Why Progressivism Is Not Always Progress."  Journal of Homosexuality, v. 12 nos. 3 and 4.

Feray, Jean-Claude and Manfred Herzer, 1990.  "Homosexual Studies and Politics in the 19th Century:  Karl Maria Kertbeny" Glen W. Peppel, trans.  Journal of Homosexuality v. 19 no. 1.

Ford, Clellan, 1948.  "Sexual Behavior Among Primitive Peoples." in Geddes, ed., About the Kinsey Report.

Ford, Clellan and Frank Beach, 1951.  Patterns of Sexual Behavior.  New York:  Harper.

Freud, Sigmund, Various Dates.  The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud.  James Strachey, ed.  London:    Hogarth.

Freud, Sigmund, 1905.  "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality." in Freud, The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud.  Vol. VII.

Freud, Sigmund, 1935.  "Letter to an American Mother." Reprinted in Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay/Lesbian Almanac.

Geddes, Donald Porter, ed., 1948.  About the Kinsey Report:    Observations by 11 Experts on "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male."   New York:  Signet Books.

Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan, 1998.  Sex the Measure of All Things:  A Life of Alfred Kinsey.  Bloomington, Indiana:  Indiana University Press.

Geddes, Donald Porter, 1954.  An Analysis of the Kinsey Reports on Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Female.  New York:  E. P. Dutton.

Hale, Nathan G., 1995, Freud and the Americans:  The Beginnings of Psychoanalysis in the United States, 1876-1917.  New York:    Oxford University Press.

Hale, Nathan G., 1995,  The Rise and Crisis of Psychoanalysis in the United States:  Freud and the Americans, 1917-1985.  New York:    Oxford University Press.

Hall, Lesley A., 1992.  "Forbidden by God, Despised by Men:    Masturbation, Medical Warnings, Moral Panic, and Manhood in Great Britain, 1850-1950."  Journal of the History of Sexuality, v. 2 no. 3.

Hatterer, Lawrence J., 1970.  Changing Homosexuality in the Male:  Treatment for Men Troubled by Homosexuality.  New York:    McGraw-Hill.

Hekma, Gert, 1993.  "'A Female Soul in a Male Body':    Sexual Inversion as Gender Inversion in Nineteenth-Century Sexology." in Gilbert Herdt, ed., Third Sex, Third Gender.

Henry, George, 1948 [originally published 1941].  Sex Variants:  A Study of Homosexual Patterns.  New York:  Hoeber.

Hiltner, Seward, 1953.  Sex Ethics and the Kinsey Reports.    New York:  Association Press.

Hirschfeld, Magnus, 1991, Michael Lombardi-Nash, trans.  Transvestites.   The Erotic Drive to Cross-Dress.  Buffalo, NY:  Prometheus.

Hooker, Evelyn, 1960.  "Male Homosexuality in the Rorschach." in Muray Sherman, ed., A Rorschach Reader.  International Universities Press.

Hooker, Evelyn, 1961.  "Homosexuality--Summary of Studies." in Duvall, Evelyn and Duvall, Amos, eds., Sex Ways in Fact and Faith:    Bases for Christian Family Policy.  Association Press.

Irvine, Janice, 1990.  Disorders of Desire:  Sex and Gender in Modern American Sexology.  Philadelphia:  Temple University Press.

Jones, Cleve with Jeff Dawson, 2000.  Stitching a Revolution.  The Making of an Activist.  San Francisco:  Harper.

Kenen, Stephanie H., 1997.  "Who Counts When You're Counting Homosexuals?  Hormones and Homosexuality in Mid-Twentieth Century America." in Vernon Rosario, ed., Science and Homosexualities.

Kinsey, Alfred, Wardell Pomeroy, and Clyde Martin, 1948.  Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.  Philadelphia:  Saunders.

Kinsey, Alfred, Wardell Pomeroy, Clyde Martin and Paul Gebhard, 1953.    Sexual Behavior in the Human Female.  Philadelphia:  W. B. Saunders.

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, 1892, Charles Chaddock, trans.  Psychopathia Sexualis with Especial Reference to Antipathic Sexual Instinct:  A Medico-Legal Study.  Philadelphia:  F. A. Davis.  [First English Translation]

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, 1905.  Text-Book of Insanity Based on Clinical Observations for Practitioners and Students of Medicine. Philadelphia:   F. A. Davis. [This English translation is of the final revision of Krafft-Ebing's classification of mental diseases (first German edition:   1879).  The book is included here as an example of Krafft-Ebing's syncretic method;  It does not include a discussion of sexual pathologies.]

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, 1928.  [The First German Edition Appeared in 1886] Psychopathia Sexualis with Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual Instinct.  A Medico-Forensic Study.   F. J. Rebman, translator of the English adaptation of the twelfth German Edition.  Brooklyn:  Physicians and Surgeons.  [This is the final English edition that was frequently reprinted until at least 1965;  The first German edition appeared in 1886;   The first English translation appeared in 1892.]

Lewes, Kenneth, 1988.  The Psychoanalytic Theory of Male Homosexuality.  New York:  Simon and Schuster.

Maines, Rachel, 1999.  The Technology of Orgasm:  "Hysteria," the Vibrator, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press.

Marmor, Judd, 1965.  Sexual Inversion:  The Multiple Roots of Homosexuality.  New York:  Basic Books.

Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff, 1986.  A Dark Science:    Women, Sexuality, and Psychiatry in the Nineteenth Century.  New York:   Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Minton, Henry L., 1986.  "Femininity in Men and Masculinity in Women:  American Psychiatry and Psychology Portray Homosexuality in the 1930s."  Journal of Homosexuality v. 13 no. 1.

Mondimore, Francis Mark, 1996.  A Natural History of Homosexuality.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press.

Oosterhuis, Harry, 1997.  "Richard von Krafft-Ebing's 'Step-Children Of Nature':  Psychiatry and the Making of Homosexual Identity." in Vernon Rosario, ed., Science and Homosexualities.

Pick, Daniel, 1989.  Faces of Degeneration:  A European Disorder, c. 1848-c.1918.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.

Pomeroy, Wardell, 1972.  Dr. Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research.  New York:  Harper and Row.

Porter, Roy, 1982.  "Mixed Feelings:  the Enlightenment and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Britain."  in Bouce, ed., Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Britain.

Porter, Roy and Lesley Hall, 1995.  The Facts of Life:    The Creation of Sexual Knowledge in Britain, 1650-1950.  New Haven:    Yale University Press.

Robinson, Paul, 1969.  The Freudian Left:  Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, Herbert Marcuse.  New York:  Harper and Row.

Robinson, Paul, 1976.  The Modernization of Sex:    Havelock Ellis, Alfred Kinsey, William Masters, and Virginia Johnson.  New York:  Harper and Row.  Reprinted 1989,  Ithaca:  Cornell University Press.

Rosario, Vernon A., ed., 1997.  Science and Homosexualities.    New York:  Routledge.

Rosario, Vernon A., 1997.  The Erotic Imagination:    French Histories of Perversity.  New York:  Oxford University Press.

Rosario, Vernon A.. 1997.  "Inversion's Histories | History's Inversions:  Novelizing Fin-de-Siecle Homosexuality." in Vernon Rosario, ed., Science and Homosexualities.

Rotundo, Anthony, 1990.  "Romantic Friendship:  Male Intimacy and Middle-Class Youth in the Northern United States, 1800-1900."  Journal of Social History, v. 23 no. 1.

Rowbotham, Sheila and Jeffrey Weeks, 1977.  Socialism and the New Life:  The Personal and Sexual Politics of Edward Carpenter and Havelock Ellis.    London:  Pluto Press.

Socarides, Charles, 1968.  The Overt Homosexual.  New York:  Grune and Stratton.

Steakley, James D., 1997.  "Per scientiam ad justitiam:    Magnus Hirschfeld and the Sexual Politics of Innate Homosexuality." in Vernon Rosario, ed., Science and Homosexualities.

Terry, Jennifer, 1999.  An American Obsession:  Science, Medicine, and Homosexuality in Modern Society.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press

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