Close Your Eyes and Think of Yorkshire? Working-class Women and Sexuality in Early Twentieth-Century Yorkshire

By Claire Martin United Kingdom

Looking at occupational patterns and cultures contributes to understanding working-class sexuality.

“A Poison More Deadly”: Defining Obscenity in the West

By Brian Watson United Kingdom

Under the scrutiny of the British legal system, no work was safe from being deemed obscene.

Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State–Part 1

By Devin McGeehan Muchmore 20th and 21st Century United States, Early America

What can histories of sexuality and gender tell us about the carceral state?

“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.

Rape and Manhood in Nineteenth-Century Caucasus

By Kristin Collins-Breyfogle Asian Sexualities, Sexual Violence

An 1852 rape case reveals that colonization was an uneven process.

“Arresting Dress”: A Student Interview with Clare Sears

By Rachel Hope Cleves Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Pedagogy, Trans

Clare Sears’ Arresting Dress examines the effects of San Francisco’s 1863 cross-dressing ordinance.

Truly Ugandan: Martyrs, Pope Francis, and the Question of Sexuality

By T.J. Tallie African Sexualities, Empire and Colonialism, Religion and Sexuality

Francis obscured both the colonial Christian and queer sexual contexts of the executions.