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Eighteenth-Century Masculinity - Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity. By Hans Turley. New York and London: New York University Press, 1999. Pp. ix + 199. $30.00 (cloth). - The Worst of Crimes: Homosexuality and the Law in Eighteenth-Century London. By Netta Murray Goldsmith. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing, 1998. Pp. xiv + 217. $84.95 (cloth). - Men in Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century. By George E. Haggerty. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 214. $49.50 (cloth); $16.50 (paper).

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Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity. By Hans Turley. New York and London: New York University Press, 1999. Pp. ix + 199. $30.00 (cloth).

The Worst of Crimes: Homosexuality and the Law in Eighteenth-Century London. By Netta Murray Goldsmith. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate Publishing, 1998. Pp. xiv + 217. $84.95 (cloth).

Men in Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century. By George E. Haggerty. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. xii + 214. $49.50 (cloth); $16.50 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2014

Isaac Land*
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Wayne State University

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References

1 Three important books that place the mollies in a larger context are Bray, Alan, Homosexuality in Renaissance England, 2d ed. (New York, 1995)Google Scholar; Hitchcock, Tim, English Sexualities, 1700–1800 (New York, 1997)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Trumbach, Randolph, Sex and the Gender Revolution, vol. 1, Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London (Chicago, 1998)Google Scholar.

2 Rediker, Marcus, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700–1750 (Cambridge, 1987)Google Scholar.

3 Foucault, Michel, The History of Sexuality, vol. 1, An Introduction, trans. Hurley, Robert (New York, 1978)Google Scholar; Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York, 1985)Google Scholar. Another influential work is Goldberg, Jonathan, Sodometries: Renaissance Texts, Modern Sexualities (Stanford, Calif., 1992)Google Scholar.