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Divine, Demonic and Disordered: Women without Men in Song Dynasty China

By Hsiao-wen Cheng Asian Sexualities, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

How were “manless women” viewed in Song Dynasty China?

Prostitution and Subjectivity in Late Medieval Germany

By Jamie Page Medieval, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Sexual Labour

What was life like for the women who worked in medieval brothels?

Trans and Genderqueer Subjects in Medieval Hagiography

By Alicia Spencer-Hall and Blake Gutt Medieval, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Trans

Why is medieval hagiography an important source for trans and genderqueer history?

Constructing the Pornographic Object of Knowledge

By Whitney Strub 20th and 21st Century United States, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Sexual Labour

Contemporary pornography has become a massive archive of sexual scripts. To some extent pornography has replaced sexology, psychoanalysis and sex manuals as a form of knowledge about sexuality.

United Queerdom: From the Legends of the Gay Liberation Front to the Queers of Tomorrow

By Dan Glass LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

United Queerdom is a toolkit of case studies, strategies, philosophies, methodologies and tactics for LGBTQIA+ liberation in the spirit of the original aims of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF).

Vulnerable Constitutions: Queerness, Disability, and the Remaking of American Manhood

By Cynthia Barounis LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

The rise of sexual science, in addition to creating new forms of stigma, also provided the imaginative resources for articulating new modes of resistance.