Gay liberation was never only about pride.
NOTCHES on the Bookshelf
Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education
On the everyday rhetorical ingenuity of queer romantic letter-writing practices in the nineteenth-century United States.
Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires
A history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire-building around the world.
In Search of Sexual Health: Diagnosing and Treating Syphilis in Hot Springs, Arkansas
What did Americans living in the time before antibiotics do when they got syphilis?
Contraception: A Concise History
Contraception: A Concise History traces the history of contraceptive methods from the opening of the first public women’s contraceptive clinic in 1882 to the present.
The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature
The Shapes of Fancy stages an impassioned defense of the inherently desirous nature of reading.
Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia, and Post-Human Love
How have commentators talked about sex with animals and what meanings have been attached to ‘bestiality’ or ‘zoophilia’?
