Barry Reay
Biographic Data
| ID | 129358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barry Reay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barry |
| FAMILY NAME | Reay |
| SIGNATURE | REAY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8478-3548 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The syndicates: Writing pornography before the sexual revolution
In New York in the late 1930s and 1940s, and in Paris in the 1950s and early 1960s, young, impecunious writers, poets, and some artists wrote English-language pornography to order, mostly anonymously. Some were, or became, famous (Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin); others less so (Gershon Legman, Iris Owens). In New York, they wrote for a broker for a mysterious oil magnate who sought pornography for his own sexual gratification, although the product woul…
Amateur Sexology: Gershon Legman and US Sexual History
Janet Weston. Medicine, the Penal System and Sexual Crimes in England, 1919–1960s: Diagnosing Deviance
One of the 1958 issues of the British Medical Journal contained an article by the former surgeon for the Manchester City Police, a woman called Nesta Wells. It was a summary of her experience from the 1920s until the early 1950s, with reflections on the importance—but rarity—of the role of women in such positions. She provided figures for the cases referred to her for examination, so they reflected not actual prosecutions but, as she put it, “sus…
Straight But Not Straight
Book Review| January 01 2018 Straight But Not Straight: The Strange History of Sexual Reorientation Therapy The Straight Line: How the Fringe Science of Ex-Gay Therapy Reoriented Sexuality, Waidzunas, Tom, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. 321 pp. Barry Reay Barry Reay Barry Reay is professor of history at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2018) 24 (1): 159–161…
Anonymous and Badboy Books: A 1990s moment in the history of pornography
In the 1990s a diverse group of female and male former college students from The City University of New York (CUNY) started to write pornography for gay men. The organizing force behind the venture was a young Hispanic man from the Lower East Side, soon to be known either as ANONYMOUS or Julian Anthony Guerra. He revised Victorian, Edwardian, and inter-war classics, adding extensions, but did so without any period research. Astonishingly, he was …
The Secrets of Generation: Reproduction in the Long Eighteenth Century , edited by Raymond Stephanson and Darren N. Wagner
"The Secrets of Generation: Reproduction in the Long Eighteenth Century, edited by Raymond Stephanson and Darren N. Wagner." Canadian Journal of History, 51(3), pp. 590–591
Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America
Review of Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America. By April R. Haynes. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. viii, 242 pp. Cloth, $85.00. Paper, $27.50
Miriam Frank. Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America
Clearly this book, which has been 20 years in the making and which is based on over 100 oral histories, is (pun intended) a labor of love. It is committed history—the book begins and ends with the gay marriage of one of the author's lesbian union informants—dedicated to both aspects of its subject matter: LGBT history and the history of organized U.S. labor from the 1960s until 2013. These are strands that, curiously, have maintained separate his…
Sex in the Archives
This article deals with some very queer diaries in the New York Public Library, the David Louis Bowie Diaries, 1978-1993. These descriptions of New York sex in the periods before and after AIDS consist of text, drawings, and photographs, including information on drug taking, numerous clubs (the Mineshaft was one of Bowie's haunts), a great amount of casual sex, and material dealing with the New York fisting scene. They are not philosophical or ro…
Popular Cultures in England 1550-1750
Explores the important aspects of popular cultures during the period 1550 to 1750. Barry Reay investigates the dominant beliefs and attitudes across all levels of society as well as looking at different age, gender and religious groups.
The Transsexual Phenomenon: A Counter-History
Within a relatively short period in US history, transsexuality, a category that had once not existed, became a widely recognized term. It was named and described in the 1960s in influential publications, including Harry Benjamin’s The Transsexual Phenomenon (1969). The national picture changed from one of no significant institutional support for transsexual therapy and surgery in 1965 to a situation in 1975 where about twenty major medical center…
Promiscuous Intimacies: Rethinking the History of American Casual Sex
Casual sex has become a cultural commonplace since it was named in the 1960s and later became associated with the US college sex phenomenon of "hooking up". However, contemporary accounts of this sexual practice are curiously lacking in historical perspective. This article explores this modern history, both before and after uncommitted, non-romantic, sexual encounters - sex for sex's sake - were named as casual sex. It agues that studies that con…
Faramerz Dabhoiwala. The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution
This intriguing work, which has elicited considerable praise from the British press, is the first book by a young scholar who has already published well-received scholarly articles and essays on aspects of sex and its regulation in early modern London. Faramerz Dabhoiwala is not unique in claiming the importance of the premodern period in the history of sexuality; Katherine Crawford has made a comparable argument for sixteenth-century France in T…
Inventing Sex: The Short History of Sex Addiction
Sexual Portraits: Edward Melcarth and Homoeroticism in Modern American Art
Although one will not find Edward Melcarth (1914-73) in the best recent histories of male homosexuality and American art, he was not always so spectral. Named in Life magazine in 1950 as one of the best young American artists, he exhibited as a painter, draftsman and sculptor and also practised as an illustrator, photographer and designer. His work survives in the Forbes Collection, in the Smithsonian Institution and in the art archives at the Ki…
Writing the Modern Histories of Homosexual England
The most useful sexual histories are those that provide depth of context without either assuming sexual identity or anticipating its complete absence; those that do not force taxonomies; histories that resist any simple teleological account of a shift from ‘homosexuality’ as sexual excess to the homosexual as a species. This review examines attempts to write such histories – what has recently been termed the ‘new British queer history’. I will fo…
Print Culture and the Early Quakers
This recent offering from the series Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History is an interesting demonstration of the shift in early modern historical studies since the first wave of work on the radicals of the English Revolution prompted by the late Christopher Hill's pivotal work in that field. Peters's study is as much a history of the impact of print as it is of religious radicalism, though of course her very purpose is to demonstrate…
Jean Robin, The way we lived then . (Aldershot and Brookfield USA: (Ashgate, 2000.) Pages xiv+168. £42.50
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Chartism and the Chartists in Manchester and Salford
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES BARRY REAY BARRY REAY University of Auckland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 450, February 1998, Pages 271-b–272, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.450.271-b Published: 01 February 1998
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access BARRY REAY BARRY REAY University of Auckland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 449, November 1997, Page 1280, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.449.1280 Published: 01 November 1997
Microhistories: Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, 1800-1930
Kinship and the Neighborhood in Nineteenth-Century Rural England: The Myth of the Autonomous Nuclear Family
There is an influential strand in the history of the Englishfamily, casting its shadow over interpretations of the nineteenth century and rapidly becoming sociological orthodoxy, which stresses the centrality of what has been termed the autonomous nuclear family. In this interpretation, the nuclear family dominates household structures, kinship is weak, and the community rather than family or kin is the main source of support for the needy sectio…
Before the transition: Fertility in English villages, 1800–1880
II est admis que l'un des grands bouleversements advenus dans les sociétés du passé est la baisse de la fécondité à la fin du XIXe siècle et au début du XXe siècle, et pourtant nous ignorons presque tout des antécédents immédiats de la transition de la fécondité pour l'Angleterre. Cet article, qui emploie la reconstitution des families, examine les structures de la fécondité légitime dans trois paroisses rurales contiguës du comté de Kent, pour l…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access BARRY REAY BARRY REAY University of Auckland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 428, July 1993, Pages 721-a–721, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.428.721-a Published: 01 July 1993
Popular culture in seventeenth-century England
1985
Print Culture and the Early Quakers
This recent offering from the series Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History is an interesting demonstration of the shift in early modern historical studies since the first wave of work on the radicals of the English Revolution prompted by the late Christopher Hill's pivotal work in that field. Peters's study is as much a history of the impact of print as it is of religious radicalism, though of course her very purpose is to demonstrate…
Promiscuous Intimacies: Rethinking the History of American Casual Sex
Casual sex has become a cultural commonplace since it was named in the 1960s and later became associated with the US college sex phenomenon of "hooking up". However, contemporary accounts of this sexual practice are curiously lacking in historical perspective. This article explores this modern history, both before and after uncommitted, non-romantic, sexual encounters - sex for sex's sake - were named as casual sex. It agues that studies that con…
The Quakers, 1659, and the Restoration of the Monarchy
Inventing Sex: The Short History of Sex Addiction
The Context and Meaning of Popular Literacy: Some Evidence From Nineteenth-Century Rural England
Journal Article THE CONTEXT AND MEANING OF POPULAR LITERACY: SOME EVIDENCE FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY RURAL ENGLAND Get access Barry Reay Barry Reay University of Auckland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 131, Issue 1, May 1991, Pages 89–129, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/131.1.89 Published: 01 May 1991
Popular hostility towards Quakers in mid‐seventeenth‐century England∗
Quaker Opposition to Tithes 1652-1660
Journal Article QUAKER OPPOSITION TO TITHES 1652–1660* Get access Barry Reay Barry Reay Hartley College of Advanced EducationSouth Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 86, Issue 1, February 1980, Pages 98–120, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/86.1.98 Published: 01 February 1980
Writing the Modern Histories of Homosexual England
The most useful sexual histories are those that provide depth of context without either assuming sexual identity or anticipating its complete absence; those that do not force taxonomies; histories that resist any simple teleological account of a shift from ‘homosexuality’ as sexual excess to the homosexual as a species. This review examines attempts to write such histories – what has recently been termed the ‘new British queer history’. I will fo…
The Transsexual Phenomenon: A Counter-History
Within a relatively short period in US history, transsexuality, a category that had once not existed, became a widely recognized term. It was named and described in the 1960s in influential publications, including Harry Benjamin’s The Transsexual Phenomenon (1969). The national picture changed from one of no significant institutional support for transsexual therapy and surgery in 1965 to a situation in 1975 where about twenty major medical center…
Kinship and the Neighborhood in Nineteenth-Century Rural England: The Myth of the Autonomous Nuclear Family
There is an influential strand in the history of the Englishfamily, casting its shadow over interpretations of the nineteenth century and rapidly becoming sociological orthodoxy, which stresses the centrality of what has been termed the autonomous nuclear family. In this interpretation, the nuclear family dominates household structures, kinship is weak, and the community rather than family or kin is the main source of support for the needy sectio…
Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century England: The social context of illegitimacy in rural Kent
More bad history has been written about sex than any other subject. Our ignorance about the sexual attitudes and behaviour of people in the past is compounded by a desire to rush to rash generalisation. This is unfortunate, for (consciously or not) our perceptions of the present are shaped by our assumptions about the past. Britain's current preoccupation with ‘Victorian values’ is but a politically visible example of a more general phenomenon. A…
The Last Rising of the Agricultural Labourers: The Battle in Bossenden Wood, 1838
Journal Article The Last Rising of the Agricultural Labourers: The Battle in Bossenden Wood, 1838 Get access Barry Reay Barry Reay Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 26, Issue 1, Autumn 1988, Pages 79-101, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/26.1.79 Published: 01 October 1988
The Authorities and Early Restoration Quakerism
The Restoration was a victory for the governing classes, a victory for social stability and discipline. Dissent, the gentry argued, led to republicanism and social disintegration: Anglicanism and the monarchy meant order. Yet despite the ease with which Charles it returned in 1660 and the relative lack of bloodshed which accompanied his restoration, it was by no means certain that the settlement would be anything more than transitory. God, in his…
The Social Origins of Early Quakerism
Social Origins of Early Quakerism There have been several attempts to determine social origins of early Quakers, from casual observations of seventeenth century to more rigorous sociological analyses of twentieth. Pagitt, a contemporary, in an oft-quoted phrase, described them as the dregs of common people. Hallywell thought them Refuse of World, Persons of meanest Quality and lowest Parts and Education. Lord Saye and Sele claimed that Quakers te…
The Quakers, 1659, and the Restoration of the Monarchy
Popular hostility towards Quakers in mid‐seventeenth‐century England∗
Quaker Opposition to Tithes 1652-1660
Journal Article QUAKER OPPOSITION TO TITHES 1652–1660* Get access Barry Reay Barry Reay Hartley College of Advanced EducationSouth Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 86, Issue 1, February 1980, Pages 98–120, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/86.1.98 Published: 01 February 1980
The Social Origins of Early Quakerism
Social Origins of Early Quakerism There have been several attempts to determine social origins of early Quakers, from casual observations of seventeenth century to more rigorous sociological analyses of twentieth. Pagitt, a contemporary, in an oft-quoted phrase, described them as the dregs of common people. Hallywell thought them Refuse of World, Persons of meanest Quality and lowest Parts and Education. Lord Saye and Sele claimed that Quakers te…
Popular literature in seventeenth‐century England
This article is an extended review of Margaret Spufford's Small Books and Pleasant Histories, an account of the English chapbook. It argues that while Spufford has made an interesting attempt to penetrate the world of seventeenth‐century English popular culture, she is, in the final analysis, unsuccessful. Spufford's account of the chapbook is compared with recent work on other popular literary forms, and it is suggested that Small Books and Plea…
The Authorities and Early Restoration Quakerism
The Restoration was a victory for the governing classes, a victory for social stability and discipline. Dissent, the gentry argued, led to republicanism and social disintegration: Anglicanism and the monarchy meant order. Yet despite the ease with which Charles it returned in 1660 and the relative lack of bloodshed which accompanied his restoration, it was by no means certain that the settlement would be anything more than transitory. God, in his…
The World of the Muggletonians
Popular culture in seventeenth-century England
1985
Popular Culture in Seventeenth-Century England
Rebellion, popular protest and the social order in early modern England
The Last Rising of the Agricultural Labourers: The Battle in Bossenden Wood, 1838
Journal Article The Last Rising of the Agricultural Labourers: The Battle in Bossenden Wood, 1838 Get access Barry Reay Barry Reay Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar History Workshop Journal, Volume 26, Issue 1, Autumn 1988, Pages 79-101, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/26.1.79 Published: 01 October 1988
Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century England: The social context of illegitimacy in rural Kent
More bad history has been written about sex than any other subject. Our ignorance about the sexual attitudes and behaviour of people in the past is compounded by a desire to rush to rash generalisation. This is unfortunate, for (consciously or not) our perceptions of the present are shaped by our assumptions about the past. Britain's current preoccupation with ‘Victorian values’ is but a politically visible example of a more general phenomenon. A…
The Context and Meaning of Popular Literacy: Some Evidence From Nineteenth-Century Rural England
Journal Article THE CONTEXT AND MEANING OF POPULAR LITERACY: SOME EVIDENCE FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY RURAL ENGLAND Get access Barry Reay Barry Reay University of Auckland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 131, Issue 1, May 1991, Pages 89–129, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/131.1.89 Published: 01 May 1991
The Last Rising of the Agricultural Labourers: Rural Life and Protest in Nineteenth-Century England
The Last Rising of the Agricultural Labourers: Rural Life and Protest in Nineteenth Century England
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access BARRY REAY BARRY REAY University of Auckland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 428, July 1993, Pages 721-a–721, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.428.721-a Published: 01 July 1993
Before the transition: Fertility in English villages, 1800–1880
II est admis que l'un des grands bouleversements advenus dans les sociétés du passé est la baisse de la fécondité à la fin du XIXe siècle et au début du XXe siècle, et pourtant nous ignorons presque tout des antécédents immédiats de la transition de la fécondité pour l'Angleterre. Cet article, qui emploie la reconstitution des families, examine les structures de la fécondité légitime dans trois paroisses rurales contiguës du comté de Kent, pour l…
Kinship and the Neighborhood in Nineteenth-Century Rural England: The Myth of the Autonomous Nuclear Family
There is an influential strand in the history of the Englishfamily, casting its shadow over interpretations of the nineteenth century and rapidly becoming sociological orthodoxy, which stresses the centrality of what has been termed the autonomous nuclear family. In this interpretation, the nuclear family dominates household structures, kinship is weak, and the community rather than family or kin is the main source of support for the needy sectio…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access BARRY REAY BARRY REAY University of Auckland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 449, November 1997, Page 1280, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.449.1280 Published: 01 November 1997
Microhistories: Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, 1800-1930
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES BARRY REAY BARRY REAY University of Auckland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXIII, Issue 450, February 1998, Pages 271-b–272, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXIII.450.271-b Published: 01 February 1998
Chartism and the Chartists in Manchester and Salford
Jean Robin, The way we lived then . (Aldershot and Brookfield USA: (Ashgate, 2000.) Pages xiv+168. £42.50
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Print Culture and the Early Quakers
This recent offering from the series Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History is an interesting demonstration of the shift in early modern historical studies since the first wave of work on the radicals of the English Revolution prompted by the late Christopher Hill's pivotal work in that field. Peters's study is as much a history of the impact of print as it is of religious radicalism, though of course her very purpose is to demonstrate…
Writing the Modern Histories of Homosexual England
The most useful sexual histories are those that provide depth of context without either assuming sexual identity or anticipating its complete absence; those that do not force taxonomies; histories that resist any simple teleological account of a shift from ‘homosexuality’ as sexual excess to the homosexual as a species. This review examines attempts to write such histories – what has recently been termed the ‘new British queer history’. I will fo…
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