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.

Sex on the Home Front: Venereal Disease and the Topography of Heterosexuality

By Amanda Littauer Medicine and the Body, Sexual Labour

On July 26, 1942, a solider in the U.S. military found out that he had recently contracted a venereal disease.

“What can I do to be normal?” Queer Female Desire in Letters to Dr. Alfred Kinsey

By Amanda Littauer 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body

Many postwar Americans were obsessed with sexual normality but their stories reveal queer possibilities.