Francis obscured both the colonial Christian and queer sexual contexts of the executions.
Tag: nineteenth century
Sex & Food in the Nineteenth-Century American Metropolis
Scandal erupted in a Philadelphia marketplace one Saturday morning in August 1839.
Archives of Desire: James Huneker “Nosophilia: A Nordau Heroine”
Discussions of “deviant” sexuality were visible and vibrant within artistic and literary communities.
Queers, Homosexuals, and Activists in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain?
evidence of identity and political activism built around a positive interpretation of same-sex desire in the 1820s.
Bestiality in a Time of Smallpox
At the turn of the 19th century, opponents of Edward Jenner’s method for preventing smallpox likened vaccination to bestiality.
Uncovering Cleveland Street: Sexuality, Surveillance and late-Victorian Scandal
Cleveland Street is an acknowledged milestone of London’s sexual past.
Clitoridectomies: Female Genital Mutilation c.1860-2014
Doctors in Britain removed the clitoris on women explicitly to eradicate elements of female libido.
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Contextualising Taboo: Leigh Bowery and the Media
Aleksandr Aleksandrov: New Sources in Nineteenth-Century Russian Trans Life-Writing
“Information Pleases”: Dictionaries and Trans History
Translation as empowerment: toward a grammaticalization of the non-binary in Spanish
The rediscovery of a homoerotic poem by Torquato Tasso: Ganimede rapito