The Chastity Plot

By Lisabeth During Author Interviews, Religion and Sexuality

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

By Caroline Derry Author Interviews, LGBTQ, United Kingdom

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

By Taylor G. Petrey 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

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.

Un-Roman Sex: Gender, Sexuality, and Lovemaking in the Roman Provinces and Frontiers

By Tatiana Ivleva Ancient World, Author Interviews

New and emerging ideas on the subject of sex, gender, and sexuality in the Roman provinces.

Queering Kansas City Jazz

By Amber Clifford 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ

A hidden and forgotten aspect of the city’s jazz scene with the stories of people experimenting with gender, sexuality, and identity.

Beyond the Binary: Science, History, and the Radical Possibilities of Sex and Gender

By Kirsten Leng LGBTQ, Trans

Science has been a crucial resource for those seeking to radically rethink the possibilities of sex, gender, and sexuality.

Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability

By Lisa Wynn African Sexualities, Author Interviews, Sexual Violence

Set in transnational Cairo over a two-decade period, this book is an ethnography about love and desire.