Vesta Tilley is a complicated figure in respect of queerness as Museums Sheffield has uncovered.
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Reporting Abortions in Post-Conquest New Spain
A sixteenth-century scribe recorded the sexual and reproductive behaviour of indigenous women in colonial Mexico.
Three’s a Crowd?: Navigating a Love Triangle in Enlightenment France
How an Enlightenment philosopher understood the love between his mistress and her sister
‘She rose in the Morning of a contrary Sex’: Stories from Early Modern Wonder Books
Early modern wonder books included stories of people who changed sex as a surprising natural phenomenon.
“Clinical Demonstration by Two Expert Intellectuals”: Robert Latou Dickinson’s Representations of Sexual Intercourse
Dickinson’s representations of sexual encounters show the possibilities of gathering sex research data with live couples
Gay penguins, medieval heretics, and the place of animals in the history of sexuality
Medieval theologians, like modern activists, used animals to make arguments about human sexuality.
Beyond the Binary: Science, History, and the Radical Possibilities of Sex and Gender
Science has been a crucial resource for those seeking to radically rethink the possibilities of sex, gender, and sexuality.
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Coming Out of Communism: The Emergence of LGBT Activism in Eastern Europe
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Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture Nineteenth-Century Paris
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The Gay Marriage Generation: How the LGBTQ Movement Transformed American Culture
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Sisterhood and Unity: Lesbian Activism in the (Post-)Yugoslav Space
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Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s
