An Interview with Historian Rictor Norton

By Stephen Brogan Author Interviews, Early Modern, LGBTQ 2 comments

NOTCHES caught up with historian Rictor Norton to discuss his views on interpreting historical homosexuality and the future of LGBTQ studies.

Three’s a Crowd?: Navigating a Love Triangle in Enlightenment France

By Meghan Roberts Early Modern 0 comments

How an Enlightenment philosopher understood the love between his mistress and her sister

‘She rose in the Morning of a contrary Sex’: Stories from Early Modern Wonder Books

By Lee Raye Early Modern 0 comments

Early modern wonder books included stories of people who changed sex as a surprising natural phenomenon.

Teaching the Early Modern “Penis-Vagina”

By Julia Gossard Early Modern, Medicine and the Body, Pedagogy 1 comment

Presenting Vesalius’ “penis-vagina” (as many students took to calling it) on the first day of class immediately primed students to dissect early modern social constructions of gender and sexuality.

Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome

By Katherine Harvey Author Interviews, Early Modern, LGBTQ 0 comments

Same-sex couples in the early modern period claimed marriage in their own particular ways.

Women’s Experiences in Fornication and Paternity Suits in Massachusetts, 1740-1800

By Kelly Ryan Early America 0 comments

Women’s confessions and paternity suits reveal a host of information about the sexual lives of early Americans.

The Origins of Sex: An Interview With Faramerz Dabhoiwala

By Katherine Harvey Author Interviews, Early Modern 0 comments

Dabhoiwala traces the transformation of western approaches to sexuality during the Enlightenment.