How young women and girls in the 1940s and 1950s pursued new sexual freedoms.
Childhood and Youth
Sexual Violence Against Children in the 1960s
Narratives of abuse have taken on different forms during different moments.
Wolfenden, Paederasty and Paedophilia
What do the Wolfenden Papers have to say about paederasty and paedophilia?
Stalling Civil Rights: Conservative Sexual Thought has been in the Toilet Since the 1940s
The conservative idea that civil rights protections sexually endanger women and children in public bathrooms is not new.
Dr. Spock and the History of Sexuality
Serendipitously, on June 26, 2015, I found several letters to Spock regarding homosexuality.
“The Age of Youth in Argentina”: an interview with Valeria Manzano
How young people in Argentina asserted a new collective identity in the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s.
Classroom Wars and Sexual Politics: An Interview with Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
The schoolhouse has long been a crucible in the construction and contestation of “family values.”