Too Little, Too Late: The Path To Griswold v. Connecticut

By Linda Gordon 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body

It had taken fifty years to defeat the repressive, prudish and sexist ban on birth control.

Religious and Reproductive Politics in the United States since WWII

By Rebecca Davis 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body, Religion and Sexuality

We are only beginning to understand the role of “religion” in American debates over reproductive rights.

What We’ve Been Reading

By notcheseditor History of Sexuality

NOTCHES on the bookshelf.

CFP: Histories of Asian/Asian American Sexualities

By notcheseditor CFP

How have Asian/Asian-American societies treated and examined sex and sexuality?

‘Pray the gay away’: The Catholic Church, Sexology and Sexuality in Italy

By Chiara Beccalossi LGBTQ, Modern Europe

There is a new movement to ‘pray the gay away’ at a Catholic retreat in Angolo Terme in Brescia.

CFP: Histories of Sexuality in Latin America

By notcheseditor CFP

How do sex and sexuality play a role in Latin American histories?

Astrological Birth Control: Fertility Awareness and the Politics of Non-Hormonal Contraception

By Donna Drucker Medicine and the Body

In the late 1960s, there was a ready audience for astrological birth control, a repackaged concept that now emerged as a fertility management option.