Politicizing Sex in Contemporary Africa: An Interview with Ashley Currier

By Ashley Currier African Sexualities, Author Interviews, Empire and Colonialism, LGBTQ

How elites used politicized homophobia to consolidate their moral and political authority.

Gender, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Pacific

By Emily Manktelow Antipodean sexualities, Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, Sexual Violence

A microhistory of a child sexual abuse case in the South Seas Mission of the London Missionary Society.

Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Education in Late Medieval Britain

By Carissa Harris Author Interviews, Medieval, Pedagogy, Sexual Violence

Obscenity is useful as a tool for teaching about sex and consent in the Middle Ages, and today.

“Party Games” and “Pulling Train”: Understanding the Brett Kavanaugh Gang Rape Allegation

By Desiree Abu-Odeh 20th and 21st Century United States, Sexual Violence

The history of responses to campus gang rape can help us understand recent allegations against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

#MeToo

By Rachel Hope Cleves History of Sexuality, Sexual Violence

Reflections on the #MeToo movement from the NotchesBlog crew and friends.

Sexual Deviance and “Mental Defectiveness” in Eugenics Era California

By Jess Whatcott 20th and 21st Century United States, Sexual Violence

The diagnosis of mental defectiveness legitimated the state’s reproductive control of sexually promiscuous and sexually violated girls and women.

Redefining Rape: Estelle Freedman on the History of Sexual Violence

By Natalia Petrzela 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, Sexual Violence

Redefining Rape charts the complex and shifting meaning of sexual violence in the United States.