Illegitimacy, Family and Stigma in England, 1660-1834

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

Wolfenden’s Women: Prostitution in Post-war Britain

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How was prostitution presented in the Wolfenden Report?

Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex

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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

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By exploring their sex lives, The Fires of Lust brings ordinary medieval people to life.

The Chastity Plot

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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

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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

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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.