Sex & Food in the Nineteenth-Century American Metropolis

By Robert Gamble Early America, Food and Sexuality

Scandal erupted in a Philadelphia marketplace one Saturday morning in August 1839.

Teaching with Tumblr: Building a Digital Archive of Gender, Race & Empire

By Bianca Murillo Empire and Colonialism, Pedagogy, Race and Ethnicity

I am interested in the potential of digital media as a way to engage students.

A Chile is Never Just a Chile: Food & Sex in Mexico Before & After Colonization

By Gustavo Corral Empire and Colonialism, Food and Sexuality, Latin American Sexualities

Eating and reproduction are crucial biological processes that are fraught with emotional meanings.

Food and Sex Through the Ages

By Rachel Hope Cleves Food and Sexuality

Expressing interest in both the history of food and the history of sexuality still has the power to raise eyebrows.

Tempests and Teapots: Sexual Politics and Tea-Drinking in the Early Modern World

By Benjamin Carp Early America, Food and Sexuality

The American Revolution is impossible to understand without food and sex at its center.

Out in the Open: Rural Life, Respectability, and the Nudist Park

By Brian Hoffman Medicine and the Body

The American countryside provided an ideal setting for the principles of nudism.

Revisiting Love’s ‘Golden Age’

By Alana Harris United Kingdom

Love has a history, but that its history is not quite what we thought it was.