It had taken fifty years to defeat the repressive, prudish and sexist ban on birth control.
20th and 21st Century United States
Religious and Reproductive Politics in the United States since WWII
We are only beginning to understand the role of “religion” in American debates over reproductive rights.
Disciplining Black Bodies: Racial Stereotypes of Cleanliness and Sexuality
The importance of highlighting the full humanity of historical actors whose voices are largely silent in the archive.
Archives of Desire: Happiness of Womanhood Newsletter, 1977
Fears of changing sexual mores shaped HOW’s women’s worldview and mobilized their politics.
Classroom Wars and Sexual Politics: An Interview with Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
The schoolhouse has long been a crucible in the construction and contestation of “family values.”
Doing It With Food: Cooking and the History of Sexuality
Evangelicals actively connected their appetite for culinary and sexual variety to desires for marital intimacy and stability.
Organized Labor, Gay Liberation and the Battle Against the Religious Right, 1977-1994
What common cause could bring organized labor together with gay liberation in the United States?