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

By Caroline Derry Author Interviews, LGBTQ, United Kingdom

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 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Religion and Sexuality

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, Empire and Colonialism

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, Medicine and the Body

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

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

Love, Sex, and Desire in Modern Egypt: Navigating the Margins of Respectability

By Lisa Wynn African Sexualities, Author Interviews, Sexual Violence

Set in transnational Cairo over a two-decade period, this book is an ethnography about love and desire.

Controlling Sex in Captivity

By Matthias Reiss 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, LGBTQ, Modern Europe

The book is the first critical study of heterosexual and same-sex activities involving Axis prisoners of war in the United States during World War II.