Studying the language of queer history gives us insight into past efforts to control the social value of gender and sexuality by defining their meaning.
Tag: gender
Will the Sissy be Triumphant?
The concept of sissiness, and the way the epithet is employed, is neither static nor universal.
Black Trans Feminism
Rethinking blackness, transness, and black feminism in a more radical, and freeing, way.
Reproduction in Transition: Fertility Technology in the Lives of Sexual and Gender Minorities
LGBTQ+ people utilizing fertility technologies may face discrimination, prejudice, and the need to balance a trajectory of gender affirming medical care with prenatal care.
Illegitimacy, Family and Stigma in England, 1660-1834
What were the consequences of illegitimacy in the long eighteenth century?
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?
