Wolfenden’s Women: Prostitution in Post-war Britain

By Julia Laite Author Interviews 0 comments

How was prostitution presented in the Wolfenden Report?

The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages

By Katherine Harvey Medieval 0 comments

By exploring their sex lives, The Fires of Lust brings ordinary medieval people to life.

Lesbianism and the Criminal Law: Three Centuries of Legal Regulation in England and Wales

By Caroline Derry Author Interviews 2 comments

A socio-legal history of lesbianism and the criminal law from the eighteenth century to the present.

Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism

By Taylor G. Petrey Author Interviews 0 comments

Tabernacles of Clay sets Mormonism in the broader history of sexuality in modernity by documenting and theorizing the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, religion, and social change.

Licentious Worlds: Sex and Exploitation in Global Empires

By Julie Peakman Author Interviews 0 comments

A history of sexual attitudes and behaviour through five hundred years of empire-building around the world.

In Search of Sexual Health: Diagnosing and Treating Syphilis in Hot Springs, Arkansas

By Elliott Bowen Author Interviews 0 comments

What did Americans living in the time before antibiotics do when they got syphilis?

Queering Kansas City Jazz

By Amber Clifford 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ 0 comments

A hidden and forgotten aspect of the city’s jazz scene with the stories of people experimenting with gender, sexuality, and identity.