Flight Attendant Unions Make the Economy Work for Queer Families

By Ryan Murphy 20th and 21st Century United States

Flight attendant unions have been hotbeds of feminist and LGBTQ activism for fifty years.

Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State-Part 3

By Regina Kunzel 20th and 21st Century United States

Mass incarceration cannot be understood without looking through the lenses of gender and sexuality.

Postwar Sex Education and the Roots of White Male Sexual Entitlement

By Susan Freeman 20th and 21st Century United States, Race and Ethnicity, Sexual Violence

White men remain relatively impervious to charges of sexual aggression, perhaps as a result of mid-century sex education.

Archives of Desire: Debbie Does Death

By Josh Adair 20th and 21st Century United States

Even in death a Republican-appointed judge wanted to be remembered for his stance against pornography.

The FBI, Sexual Predators and the Mann Act

By Jessica Pliley 20th and 21st Century United States

The Mann Act protected women from “human vultures who fatten on the shame of innocent young girls.”

Phyllis Schlafly and the Making of Grassroots Conservative Sexual Politics

By Stacie Taranto 20th and 21st Century United States

Phyllis Schlafly stood at the epicenter of conservative sexual politics.

Bad Girls: A Student Interview with Amanda Littauer

By Amanda Littauer 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

How young women and girls in the 1940s and 1950s pursued new sexual freedoms.