Plausible Crime Stories: The Legal History of Sexual Offences in Mandate Palestine

By Orna Alyagon-Darr Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ, Sexual Violence

This first study of the legal history of sex offences in Mandate Palestine pioneers a new socio-cultural perspective on evidence: plausibility.

‘An Equality of Injustice’: The Sex Buyers’ Bill and Lessons from History

By Julia Laite Sexual Labour, Sexual Violence, United Kingdom

Sex workers living under these regimes have to keep selling sex in a climate made significantly more hostile by further criminalization.

The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal and the Medieval Clergy

By Dyan Elliott Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, Medieval, Religion and Sexuality, Sexual Violence

Scandal-averse policies have enabled the widespread sexual abuse of boys and male adolescents within the Church.

The Rape of Rufus? Sexual Violence against Enslaved Men

By Thomas Foster Author Interviews, Early America, Race and Ethnicity, Sexual Violence

Rethinking Rufus argues that enslaved black men were sexually violated by both white men and white women.

Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability

By Lisa Wynn African Sexualities, Author Interviews, Sexual Violence

Set in transnational Cairo over a two-decade period, this book is an ethnography about love and desire.

Medicine, the Penal System and Sexual Crimes in England, 1919-1960s

By Janet Weston Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Sexual Violence, United Kingdom

Weston’s book is a history of 20th century medical explanations for sexual crime and medico-legal attempts at rehabilitation and cure.

Gender, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Pacific

By Emily Manktelow Antipodean sexualities, Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, Sexual Violence

A microhistory of a child sexual abuse case in the South Seas Mission of the London Missionary Society.