Anatomy’s queer working images, or My queer eye for the anatomical guy

By Michael Sappol NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Queer Anatomies is about perverse desire and pleasure in anatomy. Queers queering anatomy.

Illegitimacy, Family and Stigma in England, 1660-1834

By Kate Gibson Early America, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

What were the consequences of illegitimacy in the long eighteenth century?

Adventurer: The Life and Times of Giacomo Casanova

By Leo Damrosch Early Modern, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Everyone has heard of Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), but who was the man behind the myth?

The Queer Case of Catherine/Giovanni Vizzani

By Ula Klein Early Modern

What does the case of Catherine/Giovanni Vizzani reveal about gender identity and sexual desire in the Eighteenth Century?

The Closet: The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Intimacy

By Danielle Bobker LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Why was the eighteenth-century closet associated with illicit and transgressive sexuality?

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

By Meghan Roberts Early Modern

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

Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination

By Noelle Gallagher Early Modern, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

How venereal disease was represented in eighteenth-century British literature and art.