The Cervical Cap in the Feminist Women’s Health Movement, 1976–1988

By Donna Drucker 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body

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

By Devin McGeehan Muchmore 20th and 21st Century United States, Early America

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

By Dan Royles 20th and 21st Century United States, African Sexualities, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity

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

By Christopher Agee 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

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  

By Gabriel Rosenberg 20th and 21st Century United States

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.

After Roe: Engaging the Lost History of the Abortion Debate

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Grassroots activists and politicians responded to the 1973 ruling in the two decades that followed it.

Martin Luther King Jr. and the History of Sexuality

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Race and Ethnicity

What sources would you use to place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. within the history of sexuality?