Sexuality in Modern German History

By Katie Sutton NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

A deep look at shifting views about ‘normal’ and nonconforming sexuality across two centuries, and how these shaped people’s behaviours, politics, and lives.

Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics

By Isabela De Oliveira Dornelas Childhood and Youth, Medicine and the Body

Cesarean or sin: the politics of saving the fetus in Brazil.

Men of Superior IQ: Connecting Homosexuality to Intelligence in Cold War-Era Canada

By Andrea Ens Canada, LGBTQ

The construction of male homosexuals as intelligent was connected to broader cultural anxieties about same-sex attracted men in Cold War-era Canada.

Histories of the Transgender Child

By Jules Gill-Peterson Childhood and Youth, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Trans

Challenging the idea that today’s trans kids are a brand new generation.

Too Hot and Horny for the Centers for Disease Control

By Dan Royles LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

Conservative resistance to government funding for AIDS education was racialized and sexualized.

The Pustulent Penis: Searching for STDs in the Centuries before Syphilis

By Katherine Harvey Medieval

John of Gaunt ‘died of putrefaction of his genitals and body’.

Sores, Scorn and Stigma? Suffering Syphilis in Early Modern Germany

By Mona OBrien Early Modern, Medicine and the Body

The ‘French disease’ erupted in Europe in 1495.