“When Sex Threatened the State”: An Interview with Saheed Aderinto

By Saheed Aderinto African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Sexual Labour

Aderinto argues that the British perceived prostitution as evidence of African “primitiveness.”

Red War on the Family: An Interview with Erica Ryan

By Erica Ryan 20th and 21st Century United States, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

1920s conservatism foreshadowed the New Right’s use of sex & gender as an organizing tool.

Out in the Union: An Interview with Miriam Frank

By Miriam Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Out in the Union (Temple University Press, 2014) by Miriam Frank tells the continuous story of queer American workers from the mid-1960s through 2013.

Seeing Sodomy: An Interview with Robert Mills

By Rachel Moss LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, Medieval, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Mills builds a picture of sodomy’s rich multimedia presence in the Middle Ages.

Sexuality, Family Planning, and the British Left: An Interview with Stephen Brooke

By Stephen Brooke NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

A sweeping account of sexuality and socialism in twentieth century Britain.

The Origins of Sex: An Interview With Faramerz Dabhoiwala

By Katherine Harvey Early Modern, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Dabhoiwala traces the transformation of western approaches to sexuality during the Enlightenment.

A History of Family Planning in Twentieth Century Peru

By Nicole Pacino Latin American Sexualities, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

López explores changes and continuities in conversations about fertility, family & nation in Peru.