Stephen Brogan Rictor Norton is the renowned historian of early modern and nineteenth-century homosexuality, best known for his book Mother Clap’s Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England 1700-1830 (1992). His website is a treasure trove of primary sources and essays, including his online-only source book Homosexuality in Eighteenth-Century England. NOTCHES caught up […]
Author Interviews
Wolfenden’s Women: Prostitution in Post-war Britain
How was prostitution presented in the Wolfenden Report?
Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex
How have understandings of and approaches to intersex bodies changed from early America to the present day?
Intimate Interventions: Global Histories of Sexuality and Colonialism
With thirty-one contributions spanning colonized contexts across the world, The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism documents the interventions into reproductive and sexual lives that upheld colonial projects.
Freaking in Interwar Britain
Even under the gaze of social conservatism, ‘gay’ life was hiding in plain sight.
The Chastity Plot
Why has the ideal of chastity has persisted for so many centuries?
Radical Relationships: The Civil War-Era Correspondence of Mathilde Franziska Anneke
The lives, letters, and “romantic friendship” shared between two women during the nineteenth century.
