Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex

By Elizabeth Reis 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, Medicine and the Body

How have understandings of and approaches to intersex bodies changed from early America to the present day?

Abortion and Contraception in Modern Greece, 1830-1967

By Violetta Hionidou Author Interviews, Medicine and the Body, Modern Europe

Abortion and contraception before the Pill: the case of Modern Greece.

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

By Cynthia Barounis Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body

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

In Search of Sexual Health: Diagnosing and Treating Syphilis in Hot Springs, Arkansas

By Elliott Bowen Author Interviews, Medicine and the Body

What did Americans living in the time before antibiotics do when they got syphilis?

Contraception: A Concise History

By Donna Drucker Author Interviews, Medicine and the Body

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.

In the Service of White Supremacy: Immigration and Reproductive Violence

By Lina-Maria Murillo 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity

Reproductive control and violence have been a hallmark of immigration policy in the United States for over a century.

“Clinical Demonstration by Two Expert Intellectuals”: Robert Latou Dickinson’s Representations of Sexual Intercourse

By Donna Drucker 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body

Dickinson’s representations of sexual encounters show the possibilities of gathering sex research data with live couples