Brazil now faces both a mounting health crisis and the opportunity to revise the parameters of reproductive rights.
Recent Posts
Naming & Shaming Women: Reporting on VD Trials During WWI
In 1918 over 100 women were convicted for infecting a member of the armed forces with VD.
Syphilis Onstage: Eugène Brieux’s Damaged Goods
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
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
Liberal Protestants influenced major shifts—and later divisions—among sex educators.
Resisting the Virus of Prejudice: Sex Workers Fight the AIDS Panic
Sex workers, working as peer researchers, mapped the epidemiology of HIV in 1985.
Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State—Part 2
How do race, gender, and sexuality intersect in order to shape policing and imprisonment?
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Drag: A British History
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Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century
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Race, Sexuality and Identity in Britain and Jamaica: The Biography of Patrick Nelson, 1916-1963
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The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After
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In a Rapture of Distress: Women’s Sexuality and Modern India