The Wellcome Library is a rich source of material for the study of historical attitudes towards sex and the human body.
Tag: twentieth century
"Stranger Danger”: the Public Service film and the protection of Child Sexuality
A number of public service films produced after the Second World War warned children in particular about “Stranger Danger”.
“Cow protection or Gay protection?” LGBT rights, “Hindu” tradition and the Indian elections
Gender and sexuality has had an important role in recent public debates in India.
Queer round the edges: Mary Stewart’s post-war middlebrow fiction (cont’d)
In Stewart’s world homosexuality in any form brings a touch of exoticism and sophistication to proceedings.
Queer round the edges: Mary Stewart’s post-war middlebrow fiction
I can’t help but apply a queer lens to everything I read.
(Sexual) Labour Day
Researching prostitution makes Julia Laite more of a labour historian than a historian of sexuality.
Gender, Sex and Sexuality in 20th-Century British History: Some new directions
The symposium demonstrated the continued vitality of research into gender, sex and sexuality in modern British history