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Wolfenden’s Women: Prostitution in Post-war Britain
How was prostitution presented in the Wolfenden Report?
Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex
How have understandings of and approaches to intersex bodies changed from early America to the present day?
The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages
By exploring their sex lives, The Fires of Lust brings ordinary medieval people to life.
The Chastity Plot
Why has the ideal of chastity has persisted for so many centuries?
Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales
A socio-legal history of lesbianism and the criminal law from the eighteenth century to the present.
Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism
Tabernacles of Clay sets Mormonism in the broader history of sexuality in modernity by documenting and theorizing the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, religion, and social change.
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