Anatomy’s queer working images, or My queer eye for the anatomical guy

By Michael Sappol NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Queer Anatomies is about perverse desire and pleasure in anatomy. Queers queering anatomy.

Abortion and Contraception in Modern Greece, 1830-1967

By Violetta Hionidou Medicine and the Body, Modern Europe, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Abortion and contraception before the Pill: the case of Modern Greece.

Vulnerable Constitutions: Queerness, Disability, and the Remaking of American Manhood

By Cynthia Barounis LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

The rise of sexual science, in addition to creating new forms of stigma, also provided the imaginative resources for articulating new modes of resistance.

Moral Instruction, Venereal Disease, and Eugenic Manliness during World War I

By Sean Scally United Kingdom

Sexual health and the preservation of eugenically valuable British servicemen.

Responses to the Medicalization of Transsexualism

By Galen Comerford Trans

Many in the trans community feared the power that a psychiatric diagnosis lends professionals over trans lives.

Understanding Zika & the Abortion Debate in Brazil: A View from 1940

By Cari Maes Latin American Sexualities

Brazil now faces both a mounting health crisis and the opportunity to revise the parameters of reproductive rights.

“The Unreasonable Indulgence of That Appetite”: Cancer as a Venereal Disease in the Nineteenth Century

By Agnes Arnold-Forster Medicine and the Body, United Kingdom

Cancer was a venereal disease to be considered alongside syphilis and gonorrhoea.