History of Sexuality

Meet Our New Assistant Editors

By notcheseditor August 27, 2015 History of Sexuality 0 comments

Notches’ Assistant Editor program recognizes and mentors promising graduate students who have an interest in digital humanities and public history and who are conducting cutting edge research on the history of sexuality. We are pleased to introduce our assistant editors for 2015-2016. Mackenzie Anne Cooley is a Ph. D. candidate […]

Assistant Editor Positions at Notches

By notcheseditor July 10, 2015 History of Sexuality 0 comments

Notches is seeking 2-3 graduate student assistant editors. We especially welcome candidates with strengths in Medieval / Early Modern Europe to apply for one of these positions. The area of specialty is open for the other two positions. Notches provides a critical space for those within and outside the academy […]

What We’ve Been Reading

By notcheseditor June 19, 2015 History of Sexuality 0 comments

Matt Cook, Queer Domesticities: Homosexuality and Home Life in Twentieth-Century London (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution (New York: Penguin, 2012) Thomas Foster, Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, […]

Introducing Notches’ New Assistant Editors

By notcheseditor February 20, 2015 History of Sexuality 0 comments

Notches’ Assistant Editor program recognizes and mentors promising graduate students who have an interest in digital humanities and public history and who are conducting cutting edge research on the history of sexuality. We are pleased to introduce our two Assistant Editors for 2015-2016, Agnes Arnold-Forster and Devin McGeehan Muchmore. Agnes Arnold-Forster is a PhD candidate at King’s […]

365 Notches: (re)marks on our 1st anniversary

By notcheseditor January 6, 2015 History of Sexuality 0 comments

It’s hard to believe that we are celebrating one year of Notches! On 6 January 2014, with the support of the Raphael Samuel History Centre, we launched a new blog with the goal of getting folks inside and outside the academy to think critically about histories of sex and sexuality across […]

Where are animals in the history of sexuality?

By Gabriel Rosenberg September 2, 2014 History of Sexuality 0 comments

Gabriel N. Rosenberg What is the place of animals in the history of sexuality? In June, at a campaign stop, Mississippi Senator Thad Cochran testified about his rural roots by reminiscing on how, in his youth, he did “all kinds of indecent things to animals.” The phrase drew knowing laughs from […]

Beards, Real Men, and Poseurs: male sexuality and fashion since around 1900

By Julia Laite April 8, 2014 History of Sexuality 7 comments

Julia Laite A recent post by regular blogger Nikki Daniels (‘An open letter to bearded hipsters’) that has made the usual rounds of facebook and twitter has got me thinking about how male fashion has long been central to the way we define what it means to be a ‘real’ man. The blogger wrote about […]