The Book Review Section (Commentary, Reviews, Recent Publications)

Sex, Dissidence and Damnation: Minority Groups in the Middle Ages, by Jeffrey Richards. (New York: Routledge, 1991). Oceanic Homosexuality, by Stephen 0. Murray. (New York: Garland Publishing 1992). Gay Culture in America: Essays from the Field, edited by Gilbert Herdt (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992), 255 pp.; and Not in front of the Audience: Homosexuality on Stage by Nocholas de Jongh (New Tork: Routledge, 1992), 214 pp., $49.95 hb, $15.95 pb. AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame by Paul Farmer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. 338 pp. $35 hb. Notes on Incidents by Roland Barthes and Bringing Out Roland Barthes by D. A. Miller (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992, $12. piece, or $20 for the pair); Understanding the Male Hustler by Sam Steward (Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press, 1991, $7.95 pb. 147 pp.) Colin McPhee: Composer in Two Worlds by Carol J. Oja. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990. $39.95 hb.)