Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: A Roundtable on the Politics of Sexual Representations in the 1970s – Part 3

By notcheseditor 20th and 21st Century United States

1970s pornography included far more than Deep Throat (1972).

Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: A Roundtable on the Politics of Sexual Representations in the 1970s – Part 2

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States

What can pornography’s history tell us about its basic appeal?

AIDS, Sexuality and American Religion: An Interview With Anthony Petro

By Anthony Petro 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, Religion and Sexuality

Religious responses to the emergence of AIDS in the United States in the 1980s and 90s.

Classroom Wars and Sexual Politics: An Interview with Natalia Mehlman Petrzela

By Natalia Petrzela 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, Race and Ethnicity

The schoolhouse has long been a crucible in the construction and contestation of “family values.”

Organized Labor, Gay Liberation and the Battle Against the Religious Right, 1977-1994

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

What common cause could bring organized labor together with gay liberation in the United States?

Gender, Sex and Sexuality in 20th-Century British History: Some new directions

By Ben Mechen United Kingdom

The symposium demonstrated the continued vitality of research into gender, sex and sexuality in modern British history

Individual Freedom as Misappropriation: Race, Sexuality and the Use of Civil Rights History

By Adam Shapiro 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

The argument that individual rights is the natural legacy of civil rights has long been a staple of American conservatism.