The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health

By Ellen S. More 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

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

By Jonathan Bell 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

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

By Ocean Ouillette 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Trans

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

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

How have understandings of and approaches to intersex bodies changed from early America to the present day?

Constructing the Pornographic Object of Knowledge

By Whitney Strub 20th and 21st Century United States, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Sexual Labour

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.

Southerners: Archiving Queer Southern Diaspora in New York City

By Jerry Watkins 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

The Southerners collection opens a window onto extended kinship networks and self-described “surrogate family” in the queer Southern diaspora.

The People’s Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America

By Lisa Z. Sigel 20th and 21st Century United States, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

The People’s Porn provides the first large-scale history of American handmade and homemade pornography.