Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories

By Jaime Cantrell LGBTQ

Can an archive offer “proof” that historians often seek out?

Postwar Sex Education and the Roots of White Male Sexual Entitlement

By Susan Freeman 20th and 21st Century United States, Race and Ethnicity, Sexual Violence

White men remain relatively impervious to charges of sexual aggression, perhaps as a result of mid-century sex education.

‘The Stimulus of the Flesh’ and Margaret Singleton’s Broken Vow

By Laura Wood Medieval

While many vowesses broke their chastity vows, Margaret Singleton’s case was different and remains an unsolved mystery.

Archives of Desire: Debbie Does Death

By Josh Adair 20th and 21st Century United States

Even in death a Republican-appointed judge wanted to be remembered for his stance against pornography.

Bad Girls: A Student Interview with Amanda Littauer

By Amanda Littauer 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

How young women and girls in the 1940s and 1950s pursued new sexual freedoms.

Thinking Medievally: The Sexualisation Debate and Medieval Advice Literature

By Amy Burge Medieval

Concerns about the sexualisation of young women appear even in the late Middle Ages.

The Cologne Sexual Assaults in Historical Perspective

By Michelle Lynn Kahn Modern Europe, Sexual Violence

The language of xenophobia and nationalism has long been staged on women’s bodies.