“In My Bed”: Sexual Violence Over Fifty Years on One College Campus

By Natalia Petrzela 20th and 21st Century United States, Sexual Violence

Sexual violence has been a consistent facet of college women’s experiences.

Clitoridectomies: Female Genital Mutilation c.1860-2014

By Agnes Arnold-Forster Medicine and the Body, United Kingdom

Doctors in Britain removed the clitoris on women explicitly to eradicate elements of female libido.

The Allure of the Castrato

By Lisa Smith Early Modern

An introduction to one of the sex symbols of the eighteenth century: the castrato.

Sinead and Miley: A History Lesson

By Julia Laite Sexual Labour, United Kingdom

Blurred lines between the protection and the control of women’s sexuality in the past and in the present,