Dickinson’s representations of sexual encounters show the possibilities of gathering sex research data with live couples
Medicine and the Body
Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s
This book traces the emergence of a vibrant and multi-faceted national gay medical infrastructure during the 1970s.
Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics & Imperial Ambitions in the United States & Japan
Contraceptive Diplomacy narrates a transnational history of birth control in the context of imperial struggles between the United States and Japan.
Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination
How venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and art.
Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic
How did a single gay man become blamed for causing the North American AIDS epidemic?
‘This isn’t so boring if you can get an outside climax’: Dr Joan Malleson and sexual counselling in Britain
Archival recordings of sexual counselling sessions illuminate how sexual problems might be understood by both practitioners and patients.
The Art and Politics of the Dick Pic
What do safer sex campaigns and their histories tell us about how erotic masculinities are crafted amid crisis?
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