Rachel Hope Cleves closes out the symposium on her book Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality.
Childhood and Youth
Age Difference and Queer Feminism: Bryher, H.D. and Norman Douglas
Jana Funke shows us how Rachel Hope Cleves’ Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality offers a framework for understanding the erotics of age in queer and trans relationships.
Unspeakable Practices Under the Capri Sun
Alessio Ponzio guides us through transformations in Italian sexual culture in this second post in our online symposium on Rachel Hope Cleves’s Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality.
Of Polymaths and Pederasts: Reflections on Rachel Hope Cleves’s Unspeakable
Joseph Fischel reflects on histories of sexual ethics, pederasty, and power in this first post in our online symposium on Rachel Hope Cleves’s Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality.
The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal and the Medieval Clergy
Scandal-averse policies have enabled the widespread sexual abuse of boys and male adolescents within the Church.
Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937
Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937 is a microhistory of a law restraining child marriages passed in colonial India in 1929.
Growing Up Queer: Kids and the Remaking of LGBTQ Identity
LGBTQ kids reveal what it’s like to be young and queer today.