A deep look at shifting views about ‘normal’ and nonconforming sexuality across two centuries, and how these shaped people’s behaviours, politics, and lives.
Tag: sexuality
The Languages of Queer History
Studying the language of queer history gives us insight into past efforts to control the social value of gender and sexuality by defining their meaning.
The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health
How sex education was turned into a flashpoint of the culture wars, a stalking horse for the newly emergent extreme right wing from the late 1960s to the present.
The Italian Invert: A Gay Man’s Intimate Confessions To Emile Zola
A very queer tale, The Italian Invert is one man’s story of love affairs, sexual adventures, and the pursuit of happiness at the end of the nineteenth century.
Black Trans Feminism
Rethinking blackness, transness, and black feminism in a more radical, and freeing, way.
Foucault’s Lectures on Sexuality
Two Foucault lectures from 1964 and 1969.
Wolfenden’s Women: Prostitution in Post-war Britain
How was prostitution presented in the Wolfenden Report?
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The Massage Establishments Scandal: Coding and De-coding Sex Work at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
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The Sex Lives of Historic Houses
What can we Learn from Germany’s Early Queer History?