How was prostitution represented in Imperial Russia?
NOTCHES on the Bookshelf
The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance
The Borders of AIDS tells a story about how powerful people used AIDS as an opportunity to enact bans and quarantines and how ordinary people resisted.
The International LGBT Rights Movement: A History
A brief and compelling history of the international lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender rights movement.
An Interview with Historian Rictor Norton
NOTCHES caught up with historian Rictor Norton to discuss his views on interpreting historical homosexuality and the future of LGBTQ studies.
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.
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