This book traces the emergence of a vibrant and multi-faceted national gay medical infrastructure during the 1970s.
Medicine and the Body
Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics & Imperial Ambitions in the United States & Japan
Contraceptive Diplomacy narrates a transnational history of birth control in the context of imperial struggles between the United States and Japan.
Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination
How venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and art.
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
How did a single gay man become blamed for causing the North American AIDS epidemic?
‘This isn’t so boring if you can get an outside climax’: Dr Joan Malleson and sexual counselling in Britain
Archival recordings of sexual counselling sessions illuminate how sexual problems might be understood by both practitioners and patients.
The Art and Politics of the Dick Pic
What do safer sex campaigns and their histories tell us about how erotic masculinities are crafted amid crisis?
Teaching the Early Modern “Penis-Vagina”
Presenting Vesalius’ “penis-vagina” (as many students took to calling it) on the first day of class immediately primed students to dissect early modern social constructions of gender and sexuality.