Un-Roman Sex: Gender, Sexuality, and Lovemaking in the Roman Provinces and Frontiers

By Tatiana Ivleva Ancient World, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

New and emerging ideas on the subject of sex, gender, and sexuality in the Roman provinces.

Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937

By Ishita Pande Asian Sexualities, Childhood and Youth, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937 is a microhistory of a law restraining child marriages passed in colonial India in 1929.

Esther Newton’s Butch Career

By Esther Newton LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

I love reading and writing stories but, until my memoir, most have been about other people.

Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa: An Interview with Ashley Currier

By Ashley Currier African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

How elites used politicized homophobia to consolidate their moral and political authority.

Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture

By Hongwei Bao Asian Sexualities, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Queer China reveals a vibrant picture of queer communities and cultures since their inception in post-Mao China.

The Brothel of Pompeii

By Sarah Levin-Richardson Ancient World, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Pompeii’s brothel is the only verifiable brothel from Greco-Roman antiquity.

The Beauty and the Terror

By Catherine Fletcher Early Modern, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

The Italian Renaissance was far stranger and darker than many of us realise, and that sex and sexuality played an important role in this unsavoury side of the sixteenth century.