Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance

By Amber Musser 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity

Sensual Excess explores different iterations of racialized sexuality through the work of artists of color.

Alternative Histories of the Self: a Cultural History of Sexualities and Secrets

By Anna Clark LGBTQ, Modern Europe, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Five unique historical figures who developed a sense of self that reconciled their sexual nonconformity with their ethical standards.

Controlling Sex in Captivity

By Matthias Reiss 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Modern Europe, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

The book is the first critical study of heterosexual and same-sex activities involving Axis prisoners of war in the United States during World War II.

Growing Up Queer: Kids and the Remaking of LGBTQ Identity

By Mary Robertson 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

LGBTQ kids reveal what it’s like to be young and queer today.

Histories of the Transgender Child

By Jules Gill-Peterson Childhood and Youth, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Trans

Challenging the idea that today’s trans kids are a brand new generation.

Medicine, the Penal System and Sexual Crimes in England, 1919-1960s

By Janet Weston LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Sexual Violence, United Kingdom

Weston’s book is a history of 20th century medical explanations for sexual crime and medico-legal attempts at rehabilitation and cure.

The Boys of Fairy Town

By Jim Elledge 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

The little-known history of gay life in Chicago during its first century.