The first critical edition of the complete correspondence of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, a founding figure in the history of sexuality.
Tag: nineteenth century
Queering Romantic Engagement in the Postal Age: A Rhetorical Education
On the everyday rhetorical ingenuity of queer romantic letter-writing practices in the nineteenth-century United States.
Searching for Sex Crimes in Rural Nebraska
Trips to courthouses across Nebraska raised important questions about how to conduct research on sexual violence in rural spaces.
The Victorian with a Secret
One man’s private collection of Victorian pornography is now an important historical source.
Touch, Manhood, and the Boundaries of Same-Sex Intimacy in Nineteenth-Century Canada
The 1838 Markland Inquiry historicizes male anxiety about same-sex intimacy and touch in nineteenth-century Canada.
Denounced: How Modernizing Mexico Criminalized Infanticide and Abortion
In Mexico, colonial courts maintained relative silence about abortion and infanticide. Things changed in 1871.
Discovering Sex in the Civil War
Surrounded by death, Civil War soldiers found pleasure and fraternity in sharing erotic pictures and prints.
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Her Neighbor’s Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire within Marriage
‘Cao Cao loved him’: Same-sex love at the end of the Han dynasty
The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler