What do safer sex campaigns and their histories tell us about how erotic masculinities are crafted amid crisis?
Medicine and the Body
Teaching the Early Modern “Penis-Vagina”
Presenting Vesalius’ “penis-vagina” (as many students took to calling it) on the first day of class immediately primed students to dissect early modern social constructions of gender and sexuality.
Disembodied Desire
For Victorians, the hand served as an acceptable object of fixation upon which to leer and project meaning and fantasy.
Technological Perspectives on Pregnancy, Birth (Control), and Fertility
Increasing interest in gender- and sex-related content at the Society for the History of Technology meeting.
Abortion Under Apartheid
During apartheid (1948-1990), abortion was often used as a political tool.
Naming & Shaming Women: Reporting on VD Trials During WWI
In 1918 over 100 women were convicted for infecting a member of the armed forces with VD.
Syphilis Onstage: Eugène Brieux’s Damaged Goods
Brieux’s plot featured a main character wrestling with the physical and social ramifications of syphilis.
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