How elites used politicized homophobia to consolidate their moral and political authority.
NOTCHES on the Bookshelf
Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture
Queer China reveals a vibrant picture of queer communities and cultures since their inception in post-Mao China.
The Brothel of Pompeii
Pompeii’s brothel is the only verifiable brothel from Greco-Roman antiquity.
The Beauty and the Terror
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.
Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand
New Zealand’s teenagers embraced romantic and sexual possibilities, and their lives tell of wider social attitudes to morality and respectability
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Social Thought
How ideas of deviant female sexuality became foundational to modern social thought in colonial India.
Coming Out of Communism: The Emergence of LGBT Activism in Eastern Europe
Conor O’Dwyer describes the rapidly evolving politics of LGBT activism in postcommunist Europe.
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