I would like to organize a panel for the 1999 Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, to be held in Rochester, New York, June 4-6, 1999. I seek at least one co-panelist, and someone to comment &/or chair the panel, which will be based on the theme of "sexual revolution" in international perspective, for the 19th and 20th centuries.

My own paper will focus on the period of Radical Reconstruction follwoing the American Civil War. Amidst the social and civil turmoil of the period emerged a media feeding frenzy concerning heightened sexual activities. It is worth exploring on a wider scale what kinds of forces combine to produce a period of sexual revolution, whether the preoccupation with sexuality reflects actual changes in sexual practices, or is in fact a metaphor for other kinds of political change, or some combination of the two. For this reason I welcome papers and panelists studying comparable cases in quite distinct national and temporal settings.

Please respond privately to me at one of the addresses below.