Sex, Gender, and Sexuality: Female Prostitution and Male Homosexuality in Early Twentieth-Century America

This paper seeks to contribute to our collective rethinking of the ways in which we conceptualize, theorize, and historicize the categories of sex, gender, and sexuality by analyzing a particular historical problem that requires us to mobilize and conceptualize those categories in distinctly historicist ways. By exploring a particular problem in the history of gender, sexuality, and homosexuality in early twentieth-century American culture, I hope to demonstrate how radically different the un..