Bringing sex offenders to justice was as challenging in the Middle Ages as it is today.
Sexual Violence
Sexual Deviance and “Mental Defectiveness” in Eugenics Era California
The diagnosis of mental defectiveness legitimated the state’s reproductive control of sexually promiscuous and sexually violated girls and women.
Postwar Sex Education and the Roots of White Male Sexual Entitlement
White men remain relatively impervious to charges of sexual aggression, perhaps as a result of mid-century sex education.
“To Love Without Fear”: Feminist and LGBTQ Mobilizations in Brazil
“Love Without Fear” plays on the interim president’s last name, which means “fear” in Portuguese.
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.
Sexual Violence Against Children in the 1960s
Narratives of abuse have taken on different forms during different moments.
Rape and Manhood in Nineteenth-Century Caucasus
An 1852 rape case reveals that colonization was an uneven process.