Notches Back to School Special: Introducing Students to the History of Sexuality

By Gillian Frank Pedagogy

A few weeks ago, Notches asked its readers who teach history of sexuality courses what strategies they use to introduce students to the field.

Jack the Ripper: Case Never Closed

By Julia Laite Sexual Labour, United Kingdom

Why does Jack the Ripper generate so much popular interest?

Where are animals in the history of sexuality?

By Gabriel Rosenberg 20th and 21st Century United States, Food and Sexuality, Sexual Labour, Sexual Violence

What is the place of animals in the history of sexuality?

Sexual Pleasure, AIDS, and Gay Politics

By Dan Royles 20th and 21st Century United States, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ

In the early days of the AIDS epidemic gay men struggled to reconcile 1970s sexual openness with the growing danger of a deadly disease.

The Yellow Star and the Pink Triangle: Judaism and Gay Rights in the 1970s

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

The struggle over gay rights evolved within the context of Dade County’s large and politically active Jewish community.

The Bishop’s New Stockings, or The Dangers of Love Magic

By Katherine Harvey Medieval

Love magic posed a real danger to medieval people, especially the clergy.

"What a Woman Is": Breast Cancer, Sexuality and the Unreconstructed Self

By Agnes Arnold-Forster Medicine and the Body

Some nineteenth-century British physicians looked towards physical embodiments of femaleness for explanations for breast cancer.