Religious responses to the emergence of AIDS in the United States in the 1980s and 90s.
Medicine and the Body
CFP: The History of Venereal Disease
What role have venereal diseases played in the history of sexuality?
Out in the Open: Rural Life, Respectability, and the Nudist Park
The American countryside provided an ideal setting for the principles of nudism.
“What can I do to be normal?” Queer Female Desire in Letters to Dr. Alfred Kinsey
Many postwar Americans were obsessed with sexual normality but their stories reveal queer possibilities.
The Sacred Precincts of Marital Bedrooms: Religion and the Making of Griswold
Liberal clergy helped build a broad popular consensus in favor of birth control, at least for married couples, during the late 1950s and 1960s.
The Conservative Roots of the Reproductive Rights Revolution
Griswold v Connecticut; Eisenstadt v Baird; Roe v Wade: these cases are the building blocks of reproductive freedom in the United States.
Seeing Sodomy: An Interview with Robert Mills
Mills builds a picture of sodomy’s rich multimedia presence in the Middle Ages.