Jesse Battan   Professor of American Studies & Chair of the Department Email: jbattan@fullerton.edu Office: UH-420 Phone: (657) 278-3787 Dept. of American Studies California State Univ., Fullerton Fullerton, CA 92834-6868 Office Hours -Fall 2011: T 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.; Th 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. & by appointment

Courses Usually Taught

Research Interests and Publications

Publications:

"The 'New Narcissism' in 20th-Century America: The Shadow and Substance of Social Change," Journal of Social History , 17(Winter 1983)2:199-220.

"'The Word Made Flesh': Language, Authority, and Sexual Desire in Late Nineteenth-Century America," Journal of the History of Sexuality , 3(October 1992)2:223-244.

Reprinted in John C. Fout and Maura Shaw Tantillo, eds., American Sexual Politics: Sex, Gender, and Race since the Civil War (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), 101-121.

Reprinted in Kathy Peiss, ed., Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001), 252-263.

"Angela Tilton Heywood," in John A. Garraty and Mark C. Carnes, eds., American National Biography , vol. 10 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 724-726.

"The 'Rights' of Husbands and the 'Duties' of Wives: Power and Desire in the American Bedroom, 1850-1910," Journal of Family History , 24(April 1999)2:165-186.

“'In the Marriage Bed Woman's Sex Has Been Enslaved and Abused': Defining and Exposing Martial Rape in Late Nineteenth-Century America,” in Merril D. Smith, ed., Sex Without Consent: Rape and Sexual Coercion in America ( New York : New York University Press, 2001), 204-229.

“'You Cannot Fix the Scarlet Letter on My Breast!': Women Reading, Writing, and Reshaping the Sexual Culture of Victorian America,” Journal of Social History , 37(Spring 2004)3: 601-624.

“An Introduction to the Socialism and Sexuality Seminar,” in Gert Hekma, ed., Past and Present of Radical Sexual Politics (Amsterdam: Mosse Foundation, 2004), 8-10.

“Des Gauches Adroites?“ in Jesse Battan, Thomas Bouchet et Tania Régin, eds., Meetings & Alcôves : Gauches et Sexualités en Europe et aux Etats-Unis depuis 1850/The Left and Sexuality in Europe and the United States since 1850 (Dijon, France: Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2004), 6-25. [French/English versions]. Co-authored with Thomas Bouchet.

”'Socialism Will Cure All But an Unhappy Marriage': Free Love and the American Left, 1850-1910,” in Jesse Battan, Thomas Bouchet et Tania Régin, eds., Meetings & Alcôves : Gauches et Sexualités en Europe et aux Etats-Unis depuis 1850/The Left and Sexuality in Europe and the United States since 1850 (Dijon, France: Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2004), 29-45.

Meetings & Alcôves : Gauches et Sexualités en Europe et aux Etats-Unis depuis 1850/The Left and Sexuality in Europe and the United States since 1850 (Dijon, France: Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2004). Co-edited with Thomas Bouchet and Tania Régin.

"'Sexual Selection and Social Revolution: Anarchist Eugenics and Radical Darwinism in the United States, 1850-1910," in Jeannette Eileen Jones and Patrick B. Sharp, eds., Darwin in Atlantic Cultures: Evolutionary Visions of Race, Gender, and Sexuality (New York: Routledge, 2010), 33-52.

“’De-Civilizing’ Sexuality? Intimacy, Erotic Life and Social Change in Modern America,” in Christa Buschendorf, Astrid Franke, and Johannes Voelz, eds., Civilizing and Decivilizing Processes: Figurational Approaches to American Culture (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), 287-303.

Current Research: My current project is a book-length manuscript titled The Politics of Eros: Sexual Radicalism and Social Reform in Nineteenth-Century America