Tag: 20th Century US History

Archives of Desire: Debbie Does Death

By Josh Adair September 29, 2016 Archives of Desire 0 comments

Even in death a Republican-appointed judge wanted to be remembered for his stance against pornography.

The FBI, Sexual Predators and the Mann Act

By Jessica Pliley September 22, 2016 20th Century United States 0 comments

The Mann Act protected women from “human vultures who fatten on the shame of innocent young girls.”

Bad Girls: A Student Interview with Amanda Littauer

By Amanda Littauer July 26, 2016 Author Interviews 0 comments

Bad Girls details how young women and girls in the 1940s and 1950s pursued new sexual freedoms.

Syphilis Onstage: Eugène Brieux’s Damaged Goods

By Alicia Corts July 21, 2016 Medicine and Sexuality 2 comments

Brieux’s plot featured a main character wrestling with the physical and social ramifications of syphilis.

Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights

By Heather White May 26, 2016 Author Interviews 1 comment

Interview by David K. Johnson Historians who study sexuality in the 20th century United States have largely worked from the premise that secular forces shaped the formation of sexual identities, communities and regulation. Religion, in this paradigm, is framed as a residual and conservative force—the province of the fanatical and the ignorant. […]