Why is women’s masturbation absent from most studies examining sexual practices of early modern people?
Tag: female sexuality
Pleasing and Teasing: Bourgeois Sexuality in the Age of Commerce
Angelica Church lived at the intersection of two revolutions, in a world of dangerous financial speculation, intense political intrigue, and the play of passions between men and women.
Collecting Riot Grrrl: Sexual Awakening in NYU’s Punk Archive
NYU’s Riot Grrrl Collection is that of a movement that provided a new path for young women’s sexuality
Denounced: How Modernizing Mexico Criminalized Infanticide and Abortion
In Mexico, colonial courts maintained relative silence about abortion and infanticide. Things changed in 1871.
Johanna Elberskirchen: Sexual Radical and Woman of Her Time
Elberskirchen sounds to us today like an extraordinary voice. Yet what is striking is that she was rather ordinary.
A Relationship Revealed
The miniature “Beauty Revealed” suggests an erotic relationship between an early American artist and a statesman.
Sex and the Devil: An Interview with Laura Stokes
‘The witch is a witch not only because she magically devours, destroys, or rides wolves, but also because she has sex with the devil.’