In Mexico, colonial courts maintained relative silence about abortion and infanticide. Things changed in 1871.
Recent Posts
Egyptology, sexual science and modern gender identity
How does Egyptology figure into our contemporary debates about gender identity?
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.
CFP: Topics in Public History and the History of Sexuality
How do public historians engage with histories of sexuality?
“So Complicated”: The Sexual Politics of U.S. Health Care Reform
An examination of the historic beliefs and current thinking underpinning the Republican desire to repeal Obamacare.
Discovering Sex in the Civil War
Surrounded by death, Civil War soldiers found pleasure and fraternity in sharing erotic pictures and prints.
Child Sexual Abuse? A View from England in the Later Middle Ages
Bringing sex offenders to justice was as challenging in the Middle Ages as it is today.
