The “divine marquis” influenced literature, philosophy, and artistic and social movements such as Surrealism, Situationism, and Provo.
Month: November 2014
Believe It: Finding Religion in the History of U.S. Sexuality
Syllabus for histories of sexuality and religion in the twentieth-century United States.
Mau Mau, anti-colonialism and "female genital mutilation"
Female genital mutilation and postcolonial struggles are in fact intimately and historically linked.
Clitoridectomies: Female Genital Mutilation c.1860-2014
Doctors in Britain removed the clitoris on women explicitly to eradicate elements of female libido.
Drunk Canadians in London, November 1916
The sexual history of war lies at the very heart of the history of war itself.
Deviant Domesticities: Reflections on the Queerness of Home
Can the home be queered, or has the home been queer all along?
Sex, race and censorship in Cuba: Historicising the P.M. affair
A short experimental film has gone down in history as the catalyst for one of the early crises of the Cuban Revolution.