What happens if we take Monica Lewinsky at her word?
20th and 21st Century United States
“Sodomy is not Adultery”: The Clinton Sex Scandal as Queer History
Men and women could engage in a range of sex acts, which the courts recognized as sodomy, and still maintain that they had not technically cheated.
The Cervical Cap in the Feminist Women’s Health Movement, 1976–1988
The late 1970s and early 1980s was the historical peak of interest in the cervical cap in the United States.
Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State–Part 1
What can histories of sexuality and gender tell us about the carceral state?
The Calendar of Loss: Dagmawi Woubshet on Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS
The politics of mourning in the early years of the AIDS epidemic both in the United States and Ethiopia.
Gay Politics and Police Politics in the American City
Postwar law enforcement leaders rarely prepared patrol officers for policing of gay and lesbian people.
Inventing the Family Farm: Towards a History of Rural Heterosexuality
In the postwar United States, the state’s project of preserving the family farm was yoked to its project of making the modern American family.
