Franca Viola says ‘No’: Gender violence, consent, and the law in 1960s Italy

By Niamh Cullen Modern Europe, Sexual Violence

Franca Viola’s abduction and rape was a watershed in improving the status of women in Italian society.

Redefining Rape: Estelle Freedman on the History of Sexual Violence

By Natalia Petrzela 20th and 21st Century United States, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Sexual Violence

Redefining Rape charts the complex and shifting meaning of sexual violence in the United States.

Scale – Spectacle – Spectatorship: Space as a Category of Queer Analysis

By Andrea Rottmann 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, Public History

Archives, exhibitions and historical sites operate as spaces through which ideas about LGBTQ identity can be renegotiated.

Eugenics and Intersex: The consequences of defining "normal" bodies

By Katelyn Dykerman Medicine and the Body

Decisions to limit life based on social or cultural biases contain dangerous eugenic possibilities.

Queer Domesticities: Matt Cook on Home Life, Family and Community in London

By Justin Bengry LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, United Kingdom

Matt Cook explores queer men’s experiences of home and homemaking in the metropolis.

Jeffrey Weeks reflects on "Sexual Politics in the Era of Reagan and Thatcher"

By Jeffrey Weeks LGBTQ, United Kingdom

I can’t help thinking about the importance of having an open, exploratory, but consistent political and intellectual project.

The Other Half Has Never Been Told: AIDS and African-American History

By Dan Royles 20th and 21st Century United States, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity

AIDS in black America is not only the result of poverty and inequality, but also reinforces racial inequities by constraining black opportunity.