One man’s private collection of Victorian pornography is now an important historical source.
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‘Promoting homosexuality’, 1987-2017
We must find creative ways to disrupt complacency and convey the complexities of sexuality and gender identity.
Troubling Terms: The Label Problem in Transgender History
Does the question of language get to the heart of trans history as a field?
Responses to the Medicalization of Transsexualism
Many in the trans community feared the power that a psychiatric diagnosis lends professionals over trans lives.
Of Gods & Emperors: Trans Experiences in Ancient Rome
Ancient Romans’ transgressive gender performances were reserved only for fiction and fantasy, spirituality and the state.
The Colonial Conundrum of Transsexuality in South Africa
In the mid-1970s, South African parliamentarians legalized sex reassignment surgery based on understandings of transsexualism from Jan Morris’s Conundrum.
Inventing Incest in Early Medieval Europe
The sixth century saw the emergence of a new understanding of the concept of incest, which was swiftly legislated in both secular and canon law.
