Remembrance of Things Past: A Novelist Reflects on the Politics of Intergenerational Sex

By Sarah Schulman 20th and 21st Century United States

Sarah Schulman on changing attitudes towards intergenerational sex within the queer community.

Archives of Desire: Soft-Core Pornography and Activism in the 1960s

By Helis Sikk 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ

The Los Angeles Advocate captured the essence of an important segment of the LGBTQ culture.

How to Study an American Sex Scandal

By Andrew Burstein 20th and 21st Century United States

When does sex become a political weapon?

“I Had the First Orgasm”: Monica Lewinsky & the Politics of Heterosexuality in the 1990s

By Andrea Friedman 20th and 21st Century United States

What happens if we take Monica Lewinsky at her word?

The Cervical Cap in the Feminist Women’s Health Movement, 1976–1988

By Donna Drucker 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body

The late 1970s and early 1980s was the historical peak of interest in the cervical cap in the United States.

Inventing the Family Farm: Towards a History of Rural Heterosexuality  

By Gabriel Rosenberg 20th and 21st Century United States

In the postwar United States, the state’s project of preserving the family farm was yoked to its project of making the modern American family.

Martin Luther King Jr. and the History of Sexuality

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States, Race and Ethnicity

What sources would you use to place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. within the history of sexuality?