Bad Girls: A Student Interview with Amanda Littauer

By Amanda Littauer 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, LGBTQ

How young women and girls in the 1940s and 1950s pursued new sexual freedoms.

The Catholic Church and Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Ireland

By Averill Earls Modern Europe, Religion and Sexuality, Sexual Violence

It was their word against the word of the adults, the doers of God’s work on Earth.

Seduction and Power in Revolutionary Bolivia

By Elena McGrath Latin American Sexualities

As in any revolution, women and children wielded a surprising amount of power, even at societal margins.

“When Sex Threatened the State”: An Interview with Saheed Aderinto

By Saheed Aderinto African Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, Sexual Labour

Aderinto argues that the British perceived prostitution as evidence of African “primitiveness.”