Denounced: How Modernizing Mexico Criminalized Infanticide and Abortion

By Nora Jaffary Latin American Sexualities

In Mexico, colonial courts maintained relative silence about abortion and infanticide. Things changed in 1871.

The FBI, Sexual Predators and the Mann Act

By Jessica Pliley 20th and 21st Century United States

The Mann Act protected women from “human vultures who fatten on the shame of innocent young girls.”

Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State—Part 2

By Regina Kunzel 20th and 21st Century United States

How do race, gender, and sexuality intersect in order to shape policing and imprisonment?

Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State–Part 1

By Devin McGeehan Muchmore 20th and 21st Century United States, Early America

What can histories of sexuality and gender tell us about the carceral state?

Gay Politics and Police Politics in the American City

By Christopher Agee 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

Postwar law enforcement leaders rarely prepared patrol officers for policing of gay and lesbian people.

Histories of Sexualities in Central and Eastern Europe

By Lukasz Szulc LGBTQ, Modern Europe

Historical studies of sexualities in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) remain scarce.

Seduction and Power in Revolutionary Bolivia

By Elena McGrath Latin American Sexualities

As in any revolution, women and children wielded a surprising amount of power, even at societal margins.