The ways a father’s race shaped the adoptability of children born to Jewish mothers reveals the complex construction of Jewishness in postwar Canada.
Religion and Sexuality
The History of Sexuality has a Jewish Problem
I had the pleasure of being a respondent at a conference in honor of Heather White and Anthony Petro’s path breaking publications Reforming Sodom and After the Wrath of God.
Sex and the Devil: An Interview with Laura Stokes
‘The witch is a witch not only because she magically devours, destroys, or rides wolves, but also because she has sex with the devil.’
From Shame to Sin: Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity
With the new religion came new attitudes to sexual behaviour and morality
The Catholic Church and Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Ireland
It was their word against the word of the adults, the doers of God’s work on Earth.
Reverend Anna Garlin Spencer and the Rise of “Family Life” in Early Sex Education
Liberal Protestants influenced major shifts—and later divisions—among sex educators.
Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights
The forgotten history of liberal Protestants’ role on both sides of debates over orthodoxy & sexual identity.
Recent Posts
Southerners: Archiving Queer Southern Diaspora in New York City
Lovers in Leicester: A Twentieth-Century Gay Couple
Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire within Marriage
‘Cao Cao loved him’: Same-sex love at the end of the Han dynasty
The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler