Bad Girls details how young women and girls in the 1940s and 1950s pursued new sexual freedoms.
Author: Amanda Littauer
Sex on the Home Front: Venereal Disease and the Topography of Heterosexuality
On July 26, 1942, a solider in the U.S. military found out that he had recently contracted a venereal disease.
“What can I do to be normal?” Queer Female Desire in Letters to Dr. Alfred Kinsey
Amanda Littauer In 1949, a year after the publication of Dr. Alfred Kinsey’s notorious Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, a young African American woman from the Bronx sent Kinsey a private letter lamenting the “queer control” she seemed to have over other women. These women, she explained, would literally […]
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