Catholicism, Contraception, and The History of Sexuality

By David Geiringer Medicine and the Body, Religion and Sexuality

The Commission had the potential to challenge the very nature of Catholic epistemology.

Inventing the Family Farm: Towards a History of Rural Heterosexuality  

By Gabriel Rosenberg 20th and 21st Century United States

In the postwar United States, the state’s project of preserving the family farm was yoked to its project of making the modern American family.

Gay Rights and Religion: A Notches Special Issue

By Gillian Frank LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

Historians should not assume that religious institutions have always been hostile to gay rights.

“She was both Poxt and Clapt together”: Confessions of Sexual Secrets in Eighteenth-Century Venereal Cases

By Olivia Weisser Early Modern, Medicine and the Body

Sexual secrets were nothing new in the 1700s, but confessing them to a doctor became surprisingly common.

Rape and Manhood in Nineteenth-Century Caucasus

By Kristin Collins-Breyfogle Asian Sexualities, Sexual Violence

An 1852 rape case reveals that colonization was an uneven process.

Operation Hyacinth and Poland’s Pink Files

By Lukasz Szulc LGBTQ, Modern Europe

The aim of the operation was to detain, interrogate, and register both actual and alleged homosexuals.

CFP: Histories of Music and Sexuality

By Gillian Frank CFP

What is the relationship between music and sexuality?