Rachel Hope Cleves
Biographic Data
| ID | 1460453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Hope Cleves |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel Hope |
| FAMILY NAME | Cleves |
| SIGNATURE | CLEVES R H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6132-4664 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Real Men Don't Eat Quiche
More than simply an international bestseller, Bruce Feirstein's satirical guidebook to masculinity, Real Men Don't Eat Quiche (1982), became a ubiquitous catchphrase of the 1980s. The title's success drew on a long tradition of gendered food nationalism in Anglo‐American culture that associated French cuisine with effete masculinity. During the 1970s, quiche in particular was seen as a quintessentially queer dish, served at brunch spots frequente…
Bosom Friends
Reviewed by: Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King by Thomas J. Balcerski, and: The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens: Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era ed. by Michael J. Birkner, Randall M. Miller and John W. Quist Rachel Hope Cleves (bio) Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King. By Thomas J. Balcerski. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019…
The Problem of Modern Pederasty in Queer History
Intergenerational sex between children or youth and adults was historically common, but it is understudied within the historiography of sexuality. There are three reasons that historians of sexuality should pay greater attention to intergenerational sex. First, it was common; second, discourse around intergenerational sex has been a critical site for the production of power; and third, studying intergenerational sex illuminates how sexuality is h…
Vocabula Amatoria
John Stephen Farmer's Vocabula Amatoria, published in 1896, is a French-English erotic dictionary that is a gold mine of popular sexual discourse. Farmer, editor of a seven-volume dictionary of English slang, based Vocabula Amatoria on three French erotic dictionaries published between 1861 and 1869 by Auguste Scheler, Alfred Delvau, and Jules Choux. The first of the three drew on literary sources, but Delvau's and Choux's dictionaries incorporat…
Six Ways of Looking at a Trans Man? The Life of Frank Shimer (1826–1901)
Robin C. Sager. Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America
According to the old saw, there are two sides to every divorce. But Robin C. Sager’s well-researched new study of more than fifteen hundred antebellum divorce cases reveals a lot more disagreement than simply that between husband and wife. By plumbing the original-jurisdiction divorce records of 1840–1860 from the states of Virginia, Texas, and Wisconsin, Sager uncovers a significant lack of consensus within and between communities over what cons…
From pederasty to pedophilia
The history of sexual relations between children or youth and adults in the United States has received limited attention in part because of the strong taboos against discussion of the topic. The growing moral panic about pedophilia in the 1980s, which coincided with the first wave of American historiography of sexuality, had a silencing effect. Historians of the family first broke the silence by researching the history of incest within the family…
Amatory Pleasures
Peakman collects eight previously published articles and book chapters, plus two new articles based on earlier shared material, in this new volume of her writings. The work, all produced in the last fifteen years, combines to paint a portrait of British sexual culture in the eighteenth century as various and shifting. “There was no one coherent attitude to sex in the eighteenth century,” Peakman argues (147). Old and new beliefs, the enlightened …
Cassandra A. Good. Founding Friendships
The history of friendship is squidgy territory. The word lacks definition now, and as Cassandra A. Good’s noteworthy new monograph Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic reveals, the word lacked definition in the early national past as well. Historians of same-sex sexuality have long looked to friendship as a site for expression of queer desires because the line between Eros and amity could be so bl…
Taming Lust
Journal Article Taming Lust: Crimes against Nature in the Early Republic Get access Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 209 pp. $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1257–1258, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav027 Published: 01 March 2015
Charity and Sylvia
Journal Article Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America Get access Rachel Hope Cleves. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xx, 267 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 2, September 2015, Pages 546–547, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav410 Published: 01 September 2015
What, Another Female Husband
In the fall of 1835 Hiram Hurlburt, a young boy growing up in Vermont, paid a visit to the local tailor shop to order a coat. Waiting his turn for service, Hurlburt observed the unusual couple who owned the business. Charity Bryant, a woman in her late fifties and the shorter of the two, took the orders and wielded the scissors to cut the cloth. Sylvia Drake, some years younger, stayed quiet as she plied her needle in working her way through a st…
A Field of Possibilities
Among the Powers of the Earth
"Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire, by Eliga H. Gould." Canadian Journal of History, 48(1), pp. 179–180
Negro Comrades of the Crown
In Negro Comrades of the Crown, Gerald Horne offers a fantastically researched update of the history of American slave resistance set within the context of the United States and the world. In line with studies of American reactions to Caribbean emancipation—including books by Edward Bartlett Rugemer (The Problem of Emancipation, 2008), Matthew J. Clavin (Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War, 2009), and Ashli White (Encountering Revolut…
Heedless Youth
Charity and Sylvia
Journal Article Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America Get access Rachel Hope Cleves. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xx, 267 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 2, September 2015, Pages 546–547, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav410 Published: 01 September 2015
What, Another Female Husband
In the fall of 1835 Hiram Hurlburt, a young boy growing up in Vermont, paid a visit to the local tailor shop to order a coat. Waiting his turn for service, Hurlburt observed the unusual couple who owned the business. Charity Bryant, a woman in her late fifties and the shorter of the two, took the orders and wielded the scissors to cut the cloth. Sylvia Drake, some years younger, stayed quiet as she plied her needle in working her way through a st…
Negro Comrades of the Crown
In Negro Comrades of the Crown, Gerald Horne offers a fantastically researched update of the history of American slave resistance set within the context of the United States and the world. In line with studies of American reactions to Caribbean emancipation—including books by Edward Bartlett Rugemer (The Problem of Emancipation, 2008), Matthew J. Clavin (Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War, 2009), and Ashli White (Encountering Revolut…
Real Men Don't Eat Quiche
More than simply an international bestseller, Bruce Feirstein's satirical guidebook to masculinity, Real Men Don't Eat Quiche (1982), became a ubiquitous catchphrase of the 1980s. The title's success drew on a long tradition of gendered food nationalism in Anglo‐American culture that associated French cuisine with effete masculinity. During the 1970s, quiche in particular was seen as a quintessentially queer dish, served at brunch spots frequente…
From pederasty to pedophilia
The history of sexual relations between children or youth and adults in the United States has received limited attention in part because of the strong taboos against discussion of the topic. The growing moral panic about pedophilia in the 1980s, which coincided with the first wave of American historiography of sexuality, had a silencing effect. Historians of the family first broke the silence by researching the history of incest within the family…
Amatory Pleasures
Peakman collects eight previously published articles and book chapters, plus two new articles based on earlier shared material, in this new volume of her writings. The work, all produced in the last fifteen years, combines to paint a portrait of British sexual culture in the eighteenth century as various and shifting. “There was no one coherent attitude to sex in the eighteenth century,” Peakman argues (147). Old and new beliefs, the enlightened …
Heedless Youth
A Field of Possibilities
Among the Powers of the Earth
"Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire, by Eliga H. Gould." Canadian Journal of History, 48(1), pp. 179–180
Negro Comrades of the Crown
In Negro Comrades of the Crown, Gerald Horne offers a fantastically researched update of the history of American slave resistance set within the context of the United States and the world. In line with studies of American reactions to Caribbean emancipation—including books by Edward Bartlett Rugemer (The Problem of Emancipation, 2008), Matthew J. Clavin (Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War, 2009), and Ashli White (Encountering Revolut…
Taming Lust
Journal Article Taming Lust: Crimes against Nature in the Early Republic Get access Doron S. Ben-Atar and Richard D. Brown. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 209 pp. $34.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 4, March 2015, Pages 1257–1258, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav027 Published: 01 March 2015
Charity and Sylvia
Journal Article Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America Get access Rachel Hope Cleves. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. xx, 267 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 2, September 2015, Pages 546–547, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav410 Published: 01 September 2015
What, Another Female Husband
In the fall of 1835 Hiram Hurlburt, a young boy growing up in Vermont, paid a visit to the local tailor shop to order a coat. Waiting his turn for service, Hurlburt observed the unusual couple who owned the business. Charity Bryant, a woman in her late fifties and the shorter of the two, took the orders and wielded the scissors to cut the cloth. Sylvia Drake, some years younger, stayed quiet as she plied her needle in working her way through a st…
Cassandra A. Good. Founding Friendships
The history of friendship is squidgy territory. The word lacks definition now, and as Cassandra A. Good’s noteworthy new monograph Founding Friendships: Friendships between Men and Women in the Early American Republic reveals, the word lacked definition in the early national past as well. Historians of same-sex sexuality have long looked to friendship as a site for expression of queer desires because the line between Eros and amity could be so bl…
From pederasty to pedophilia
The history of sexual relations between children or youth and adults in the United States has received limited attention in part because of the strong taboos against discussion of the topic. The growing moral panic about pedophilia in the 1980s, which coincided with the first wave of American historiography of sexuality, had a silencing effect. Historians of the family first broke the silence by researching the history of incest within the family…
Amatory Pleasures
Peakman collects eight previously published articles and book chapters, plus two new articles based on earlier shared material, in this new volume of her writings. The work, all produced in the last fifteen years, combines to paint a portrait of British sexual culture in the eighteenth century as various and shifting. “There was no one coherent attitude to sex in the eighteenth century,” Peakman argues (147). Old and new beliefs, the enlightened …
Six Ways of Looking at a Trans Man? The Life of Frank Shimer (1826–1901)
Robin C. Sager. Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America
According to the old saw, there are two sides to every divorce. But Robin C. Sager’s well-researched new study of more than fifteen hundred antebellum divorce cases reveals a lot more disagreement than simply that between husband and wife. By plumbing the original-jurisdiction divorce records of 1840–1860 from the states of Virginia, Texas, and Wisconsin, Sager uncovers a significant lack of consensus within and between communities over what cons…
The Problem of Modern Pederasty in Queer History
Intergenerational sex between children or youth and adults was historically common, but it is understudied within the historiography of sexuality. There are three reasons that historians of sexuality should pay greater attention to intergenerational sex. First, it was common; second, discourse around intergenerational sex has been a critical site for the production of power; and third, studying intergenerational sex illuminates how sexuality is h…
Vocabula Amatoria
John Stephen Farmer's Vocabula Amatoria, published in 1896, is a French-English erotic dictionary that is a gold mine of popular sexual discourse. Farmer, editor of a seven-volume dictionary of English slang, based Vocabula Amatoria on three French erotic dictionaries published between 1861 and 1869 by Auguste Scheler, Alfred Delvau, and Jules Choux. The first of the three drew on literary sources, but Delvau's and Choux's dictionaries incorporat…
Bosom Friends
Reviewed by: Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King by Thomas J. Balcerski, and: The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens: Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era ed. by Michael J. Birkner, Randall M. Miller and John W. Quist Rachel Hope Cleves (bio) Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King. By Thomas J. Balcerski. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019…
Real Men Don't Eat Quiche
More than simply an international bestseller, Bruce Feirstein's satirical guidebook to masculinity, Real Men Don't Eat Quiche (1982), became a ubiquitous catchphrase of the 1980s. The title's success drew on a long tradition of gendered food nationalism in Anglo‐American culture that associated French cuisine with effete masculinity. During the 1970s, quiche in particular was seen as a quintessentially queer dish, served at brunch spots frequente…
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