How sex education was turned into a flashpoint of the culture wars, a stalking horse for the newly emergent extreme right wing from the late 1960s to the present.
Tag: 20th Century US History
In Search of Sexual Health: Diagnosing and Treating Syphilis in Hot Springs, Arkansas
What did Americans living in the time before antibiotics do when they got syphilis?
Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics & Imperial Ambitions in the United States & Japan
Contraceptive Diplomacy narrates a transnational history of birth control in the context of imperial struggles between the United States and Japan.
The Politics of Love in Myanmar
An intimate account of a group of LGBT activists before, during, and after Myanmar’s post-2011 political transition.
Searching for Sex Crimes in Rural Nebraska
Trips to courthouses across Nebraska raised important questions about how to conduct research on sexual violence in rural spaces.
Adult Adoption and Intergenerational Same-Sex Relationships
Historically, fostering and adoption of adults could prove a useful way for men to provide legal and financial cover for a partner.
Die Bi(e)! Reading Bisexual Women’s History
Female bisexuality generates both particularly intense anger and fetishization that demand greater historical attention.