The lives, letters, and “romantic friendship” shared between two women during the nineteenth century.
Tag: nineteenth century
The Correspondence of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, 1846-1894
The first critical edition of the complete correspondence of Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, a founding figure in the history of sexuality.
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.
