Tag: religion

Of Gods & Emperors: Trans Experiences in Ancient Rome

By GVGK Tang November 14, 2017 Trans 0 comments

Ancient Romans’ transgressive gender performances were reserved only for fiction and fantasy, spirituality and the state.

The Church of England, Sexual Morality & Institutional Decision-making

By Laura Ramsay March 31, 2016 Religion and Sexuality, United Kingdom 7 comments

Homosexual law reform was supported by influential sections of the Church of England.

“She was both Poxt and Clapt together”: Confessions of Sexual Secrets in Eighteenth-Century Venereal Cases

By Olivia Weisser February 11, 2016 Early Modern, Medicine and Sexuality 1 comment

Olivia Weisser Furtive trysts. Regretful dalliances. Fleeting affairs. Sexual secrets were nothing new in the 1700s, but confessing them to a doctor became surprisingly common in published medical cases of venereal disease. In one instance, a woman consulted a surgeon for a common reproductive ailment known as “the whites.” She […]

The Cologne Sexual Assaults in Historical Perspective

By Michelle Lynn Kahn January 19, 2016 Modern Europe 4 comments

The language of xenophobia and nationalism has long been staged on women’s bodies.

CFP: Histories of Sexuality and Religion

By Neil Young August 24, 2015 CFP 0 comments

How have religious practices, identities, beliefs, institutions and politics shaped the history of sexuality?

365 Notches: (re)marks on our 1st anniversary

By notcheseditor January 6, 2015 History of Sexuality 0 comments

It’s hard to believe that we are celebrating one year of Notches! On 6 January 2014, with the support of the Raphael Samuel History Centre, we launched a new blog with the goal of getting folks inside and outside the academy to think critically about histories of sex and sexuality across […]

Blood Ties: Queer Blood, Donations, and Citizenship

By T.J. Tallie September 23, 2014 LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 3 comments

T.J. Tallie Can queer blood be less American than straight blood? In the United States, blood donations are automatically refused if the donor is a man who has had sex with another man at any point since 1977. Los Angeles-based filmmaker and activist Ryan James Yezak began the National Gay […]