Sex in the Archives is an experiment in writing an American sexual history that refuses the confines of identity in sexuality studies.
Tag: trans
Troubling Terms: The Label Problem in Transgender History
Does the question of language get to the heart of trans history as a field?
Of Gods & Emperors: Trans Experiences in Ancient Rome
Ancient Romans’ transgressive gender performances were reserved only for fiction and fantasy, spirituality and the state.
The Colonial Conundrum of Transsexuality in South Africa
In the mid-1970s, South African parliamentarians legalized sex reassignment surgery based on understandings of transsexualism from Jan Morris’s Conundrum.
CFP: Transgender Histories
How might historians make sense of trans in past tenses?
Evidence for Trans Lives in Sumer
In the cradle of human civilisation, individuals were living lives outside of the gender binary.
Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State-Part 3
Mass incarceration cannot be understood without looking through the lenses of gender and sexuality.
Recent Posts
Working Out: Reflections of gay trade union activism in the 1970s UK
Men of Superior IQ: Connecting Homosexuality to Intelligence in Cold War-Era Canada
Toward an Anti-racist History of Sexuality
Out and about with GLF in London, September 1971
‘Behaviour Which Merits a Horrible and Wretched Death’: Sex, Sin and the Black Death in Medieval England