Intimate Interventions: Global Histories of Sexuality and Colonialism

By Chelsea Schields Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism

With thirty-one contributions spanning colonized contexts across the world, The Routledge Companion to Sexuality and Colonialism documents the interventions into reproductive and sexual lives that upheld colonial projects.

Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: A Roundtable on the Politics of Sexual Representations in the 1970s – Part 3

By notcheseditor 20th and 21st Century United States

1970s pornography included far more than Deep Throat (1972).

Porno Chic and the Sex Wars: A Roundtable on the Politics of Sexual Representations in the 1970s – Part 2

By Gillian Frank 20th and 21st Century United States

What can pornography’s history tell us about its basic appeal?

Too Hot and Horny for the Centers for Disease Control

By Dan Royles LGBTQ, Race and Ethnicity

Conservative resistance to government funding for AIDS education was racialized and sexualized.

Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome

By Katherine Harvey Author Interviews, Early Modern, LGBTQ

Same-sex couples in the early modern period claimed marriage in their own particular ways.

Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State-Part 3

By Regina Kunzel 20th and 21st Century United States

Mass incarceration cannot be understood without looking through the lenses of gender and sexuality.

Rethinking Bussing in the 1970s: The Sexual Politics of School Integration in the United States

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

In the United States, racial divisions have long been sexualized.