Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State—Part 2

By Regina Kunzel 20th and 21st Century United States

How do race, gender, and sexuality intersect in order to shape policing and imprisonment?

‘Every time I see a cock I go funny’: what regional studies bring to histories of sexuality

By Helen Smith LGBTQ, United Kingdom

When sexual desire was not attached to notions of sexual identity.

More Than Loving: Race, Sexuality & Public Memory in the Movement for Marriage Equality

By Jennifer Jones 20th and 21st Century United States, Race and Ethnicity

Discussion of Obergefell compared activism for marriage equality with efforts to secure equal rights.

Would you mind if Neil Bartlett asked you a few personal questions about sex?

By Ania Ostrowska LGBTQ, Public History, United Kingdom

The Wellcome Collection’s ‘Institute of Sexology’ was the first major event of its kind in the UK.

Close Your Eyes and Think of Yorkshire? Working-class Women and Sexuality in Early Twentieth-Century Yorkshire

By Claire Martin United Kingdom

Looking at occupational patterns and cultures contributes to understanding working-class sexuality.

Sexual Violence Against Children in the 1960s

By Nick Basannavar Childhood and Youth, Sexual Violence, United Kingdom

Narratives of abuse have taken on different forms during different moments.

Sex on the Home Front: Venereal Disease and the Topography of Heterosexuality

By Amanda Littauer Medicine and the Body, Sexual Labour

On July 26, 1942, a solider in the U.S. military found out that he had recently contracted a venereal disease.