A revealing new biography sheds light on X-rated star Marilyn Chambers’ extraordinary career and explores her status as an unsung gay icon.
20th and 21st Century United States
Will the Sissy be Triumphant?
The concept of sissiness, and the way the epithet is employed, is neither static nor universal.
The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health
How sex education was turned into a flashpoint of the culture wars, a stalking horse for the newly emergent extreme right wing from the late 1960s to the present.
Privilege, Power, and Activism in Gay Rights Politics Since the 1970s
Beyond the Politics of the Closet examines the reorientation of LGBT politics from the 1970s to the 1990s.
“The best fighters of each other’s oppressions”: Trans and Non-Trans Solidarity in Lesbian Communities
There is a rich, but often overlooked, history of affinity and solidarity between trans and non-trans lesbians.
Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex
How have understandings of and approaches to intersex bodies changed from early America to the present day?
Constructing the Pornographic Object of Knowledge
Contemporary pornography has become a massive archive of sexual scripts. To some extent pornography has replaced sexology, psychoanalysis and sex manuals as a form of knowledge about sexuality.