Beyond the Law focuses on the multiple ways various groups of individuals in the early nineteenth century understood what sodomy was, and what constituted an ethical response to it.
Tag: Britain
How to Write the History of Pederasty in the Age of Groomers
Rachel Hope Cleves closes out the symposium on her book Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality.
Age Difference and Queer Feminism: Bryher, H.D. and Norman Douglas
Jana Funke shows us how Rachel Hope Cleves’ Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality offers a framework for understanding the erotics of age in queer and trans relationships.
Freaking in Interwar Britain
Even under the gaze of social conservatism, ‘gay’ life was hiding in plain sight.
Unspeakable Practices Under the Capri Sun
Alessio Ponzio guides us through transformations in Italian sexual culture in this second post in our online symposium on Rachel Hope Cleves’s Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality.
Of Polymaths and Pederasts: Reflections on Rachel Hope Cleves’s Unspeakable
Joseph Fischel reflects on histories of sexual ethics, pederasty, and power in this first post in our online symposium on Rachel Hope Cleves’s Unspeakable: A Life Beyond Sexual Morality.
The Erotics of Shaving in Victorian Britain
Beardedness in nineteenth-century Britain had definite implications for manliness and sexuality.
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