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Lisa Z Sigel

Professor
Department of History
DePaul University

lsigel@depaul.edu
773-325-4723

“Handmade and Homemade: Vernacular Expressions of American Sexual History” Journal of the History of Sexuality, 25 no. 3 (2016), 437-462.
“Looking at Sex: Pornography and Erotica Since 1750” Routledge History of Sex and the Body in the West, 1500-present, edited by Dr. Kate Fisher and Dr. Sarah Toulalan (London: Routledge, 2013).
“Fashioning Fetishism from the Pages of London Life” Journal of British Studies, special issue on Queer British History 51, no. 3 (2012): 664-684.
“Censorship in Inter-War Britain: Denial, Publicity, and the Extension of the Liberal State” Journal of Social History, 45, no. 1 (2011): 61-83.
“Autobiography of a Flea: Scrutiny and the Female Porn Scholar” in Jane Sexes It Up, edited by Merri Lisa Johnson (New York and London: Four Walls, Eight Windows, 2002), 241-257.
“The Autobiography of a Flea,” Cultronix, Issue 02: Deviant Subjects, Spring 1995.
“Name Your Pleasure: The Transformation of Sexual Language in Nineteenth-Century British Pornography,” The Journal of the History of Sexuality 9, no. 4 (2000): 395-419.
“Filth in the Wrong People's Hands: Postcards and the Expansion of Pornography in Britain and the Atlantic World,” The Journal of Social History 33, no. 4 (2000): 859-885.

“Pornography” Encyclopedia of European Social History, (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001), Volume 4, 291-300.
“Sexual Behavior and Sexual Morality” Encyclopedia of European Social History (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001), Volume 4, 243-258.
“The Body and Its Representations” Encyclopedia of European Social History (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001), Volume 4, 327-342.
“Pornography” in Europe, 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire Volume 4, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006), 1833-1837.
“Lustful Turk” in The Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature (New York: Routledge, 2006), 841-842.
“William Simpson Potter” in The Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature (New York: Routledge, 2006), 1048-1049.
“Pat Califia” in Significant Contemporary American Feminists: A Biographical Sourcebook, ed. Dr. Jennifer Scanlon, (Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1999), 44-50. Received Choice award for “Outstanding Academic Title of 1999.”
“Pornography” The Encyclopedia of Social History (N.Y. & London: Garland Press, 1994), 572-574.