The Religious Right and the Politics of Sexuality: An Interview with Neil J. Young

By Neil Young 20th and 21st Century United States, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

Young upends the widely-believed myths about the political origins and motivations of the Religious Right.

The Calendar of Loss: Dagmawi Woubshet on Race, Sexuality, and Mourning in the Early Era of AIDS

By Dan Royles 20th and 21st Century United States, African Sexualities, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity

The politics of mourning in the early years of the AIDS epidemic both in the United States and Ethiopia.

The Manly Priest: Celibacy, Masculinity, and Reform in the Medieval Period

By Katherine Harvey Medieval, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

The story of the imposition of clerical celibacy in the Anglo-Norman realms.

After Roe: Engaging the Lost History of the Abortion Debate

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

Grassroots activists and politicians responded to the 1973 ruling in the two decades that followed it.

“Arresting Dress”: A Student Interview with Clare Sears

By Rachel Hope Cleves LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Pedagogy, Trans

Clare Sears’ Arresting Dress examines the effects of San Francisco’s 1863 cross-dressing ordinance.

“The Age of Youth in Argentina”: an interview with Valeria Manzano

By Mir Yarfitz Childhood and Youth, Latin American Sexualities, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

How young people in Argentina asserted a new collective identity in the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s.

AIDS, Sexuality and American Religion: An Interview With Anthony Petro

By Anthony Petro 20th and 21st Century United States, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

Religious responses to the emergence of AIDS in the United States in the 1980s and 90s.