CFP: Histories of Sexual Violence

By Desiree Abu-Odeh CFP

NOTCHES is seeking short submissions exploring any aspect of histories of sexual violence.

Flight Attendant Unions Make the Economy Work for Queer Families

By Ryan Murphy 20th and 21st Century United States

Flight attendant unions have been hotbeds of feminist and LGBTQ activism for fifty years.

Out of the Closet, Into the Archives: Researching Sexual Histories

By Jaime Cantrell LGBTQ

Can an archive offer “proof” that historians often seek out?

Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific

By Yorick Smaal Antipodean sexualities, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Queer Identities in Australia in the Second World War.

‘Every time I see a cock I go funny’: what regional studies bring to histories of sexuality

By Helen Smith LGBTQ, United Kingdom

When sexual desire was not attached to notions of sexual identity.

Queer Terminology: LGBTQ Histories and the Semantics of Sexuality

By Claire Hayward LGBTQ, Pedagogy

How do we find, describe and contextualise histories of same-sex love and gender identity?

“Sodomy is not Adultery”: The Clinton Sex Scandal as Queer History

By Alison Lefkovitz 20th and 21st Century United States

Men and women could engage in a range of sex acts, which the courts recognized as sodomy, and still maintain that they had not technically cheated.