Sex in the Archives: Writing American Sexual Histories

By Barry Reay 20th and 21st Century United States, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Sex in the Archives is an experiment in writing an American sexual history that refuses the confines of identity in sexuality studies.

Virgin Whore

By Emma Maggie Solberg Medieval, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

A surprisingly prevalent theme in late English medieval literature and culture: the celebration of the Virgin Mary’s sexuality.

Sex, Time and Place: Queer Histories of London, c.1850 to the Present

By Simon Avery LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

How do we ‘do’ queer history and how might it be constituted in multi- and interdisciplinary terms?

Rears and Vices: The Austens and Naval Sodomy

By Seth LeJacq LGBTQ, United Kingdom

Jane Austen’s brothers sat in judgement over navy men accused of sodomy.

Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society

By Erin Abraham Childhood and Youth, Medieval, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality, Sexual Violence

Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society explores early medieval understandings of sin, looking in particular at childhood, sexuality and violence.

Carnal Knowledge: Regulating Sex in England, 1470-1600

By Katherine Harvey Early Modern, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

Sexual behaviour was strictly regulated in late medieval and Tudor England.

Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome

By Katherine Harvey Early Modern, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Same-sex couples in the early modern period claimed marriage in their own particular ways.