Bad Girls details how young women and girls in the 1940s and 1950s pursued new sexual freedoms.
Tag: female sexuality
Resisting the Virus of Prejudice: Sex Workers Fight the AIDS Panic
Sex workers, working as peer researchers, mapped the epidemiology of HIV in 1985.
Thinking Medievally: The Sexualisation Debate and Medieval Advice Literature
Concerns about sexualisation of young women appear even in the late Middle Ages.
Close Your Eyes and Think of Yorkshire? Working-class Women and Sexuality in Early Twentieth-Century Yorkshire
Looking at occupational patterns and cultures contributes to understanding working-class sexuality.
Archives of Desire: Analog Sexting
My grandparents helped pave the way for virtual trysts.
“I Had the First Orgasm”: Monica Lewinsky & the Politics of Heterosexuality in the 1990s
What happens if we take Monica Lewinsky at her word?
The Cervical Cap in the Feminist Women’s Health Movement, 1976–1988
The late 1970s and early 1980s was the historical peak of interest in the cervical cap in the United States.
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