The Queer Case of Catherine/Giovanni Vizzani

By Ula Klein Early Modern

What does the case of Catherine/Giovanni Vizzani reveal about gender identity and sexual desire in the Eighteenth Century?

The Reputation of Edward II

By Kit Heyam Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Medieval

Edward’s medieval and early modern afterlife was significantly shaped by the influence of literary texts and techniques.

‘She rose in the Morning of a contrary Sex’: Stories from Early Modern Wonder Books

By Lee Raye Early Modern

Early modern wonder books included stories of people who changed sex as a surprising natural phenomenon.

Virgin Whore

By Emma Maggie Solberg Author Interviews, Medieval, Religion and Sexuality

A surprisingly prevalent theme in late English medieval literature and culture: the celebration of the Virgin Mary’s sexuality.

Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination

By Noelle Gallagher Author Interviews, Early Modern, Medicine and the Body, United Kingdom

How venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and art.

The Colonial Conundrum of Transsexuality in South Africa

By B Camminga Empire and Colonialism, Trans

In the mid-1970s, South African parliamentarians legalized sex reassignment surgery based on understandings of transsexualism from Jan Morris’s Conundrum.