For Victorians, the hand served as an acceptable object of fixation upon which to leer and project meaning and fantasy.
Recent Posts
Femme Histories Roundtable – Part I
To what extent has female masculinity shaped lesbian and/or queer women’s histories?
Local Sexual Cultures and the Response to HIV/AIDS Along the Uganda-Tanzania Border
Is it helpful to conceive of one African epidemic, with one set of universal causes? And how is the history of HIV understood within African communities?
Flight Attendant Unions Make the Economy Work for Queer Families
Flight attendant unions have been hotbeds of feminist and LGBTQ activism for fifty years.
CFP: Histories of “Smut,” “Porn” and “Obscenity”
How do we historicize the production, consumption and circulation of sexual images and texts?
From Child Pledging to Child Abuse: How Girl Marriage Changed in Zimbabwe
Attempts to ban child marriage in Southern Rhodesia reflected the Europeans’ tendency to perceive African male sexuality as excessive.
A Relationship Revealed
The miniature “Beauty Revealed” suggests an erotic relationship between an early American artist and a statesman.
