Love for Sale: Representing Prostitution in Imperial Russia

By Colleen Lucey Author Interviews, Modern Europe, Sexual Labour

How was prostitution represented in Imperial Russia?

Divine, Demonic and Disordered: Women without Men in Song Dynasty China

By Hsiao-wen Cheng Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews

How were “manless women” viewed in Song Dynasty China?

Lady Chatterley’s Lover: A Queer Case

By Gareth Smith LGBTQ, United Kingdom

The Chatterley trial hinged on the disavowing or defending of ‘deviant’ sexual acts within the novel, making it a distinctly queer case.

Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Social Thought

By Durba Mitra Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, Sexual Labour

How ideas of deviant female sexuality became foundational to modern social thought in colonial India.

Reporting Abortions in Post-Conquest New Spain

By Kate Biedermann Empire and Colonialism, Latin American Sexualities

A sixteenth-century scribe recorded the sexual and reproductive behaviour of indigenous women in colonial Mexico.

Contraceptive Diplomacy: Reproductive Politics & Imperial Ambitions in the United States & Japan

By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci 20th and 21st Century United States, Asian Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity

Contraceptive Diplomacy narrates a transnational history of birth control in the context of imperial struggles between the United States and Japan.

Using Memes to Extinguish Sexism in Poland

By Aneta Stepien Modern Europe

The feminist memes by Polish artist, Marta Frej, feature women of all ages engaging in ordinary everyday tasks. But don’t be fooled, the messages included in the memes are powerful and revolutionary.