History of Sexuality Blog Seeks Assistant Editors

By notcheseditor History of Sexuality

NOTCHES is seeking two graduate student Assistant Editors.

Understanding Zika & the Abortion Debate in Brazil: A View from 1940

By Cari Maes Latin American Sexualities

Brazil now faces both a mounting health crisis and the opportunity to revise the parameters of reproductive rights.

Naming & Shaming Women: Reporting on VD Trials During WWI

By Laura Lammasniemi Medicine and the Body

In 1918 over 100 women were convicted for infecting a member of the armed forces with VD.

Syphilis Onstage: Eugène Brieux’s Damaged Goods

By Alicia Corts Medicine and the Body

Brieux’s plot featured a main character wrestling with the physical and social ramifications of syphilis.

The Catholic Church and Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Ireland

By Averill Earls Modern Europe, Religion and Sexuality, Sexual Violence

It was their word against the word of the adults, the doers of God’s work on Earth.

Reverend Anna Garlin Spencer and the Rise of “Family Life” in Early Sex Education

By Kristy Slominski Religion and Sexuality

Liberal Protestants influenced major shifts—and later divisions—among sex educators.

Resisting the Virus of Prejudice: Sex Workers Fight the AIDS Panic

By Mindy Chateauvert HIV/AIDS, Medicine and the Body

Sex workers, working as peer researchers, mapped the epidemiology of HIV in 1985.