Tag: female sexuality

Through the Eyes of the Establishment: Student Sexuality and the Dean of Women’s Office at Purdue University

Donna Drucker Purdue University in northern Indiana, like most American colleges and universities, experienced dramatic social and cultural changes in the 1960s and 1970s. The Dean of Women’s Office—which oversaw the affairs of female students until it merged with the Dean of Men’s Office to form the Dean of Students […]

Bad for the Soul, Good for the Body: Religion, Medicine and Masturbation in the Middle Ages

By Katherine Harvey November 19, 2015 Medicine and Sexuality, Medieval 1 comment

The monk could no longer be considered a virgin, since he has been ‘polluted…through masturbation’.

Rape & the Sexual Politics of Homosociality: The U.S. Military Occupation of Okinawa

By Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci November 17, 2015 Asian Sexualities, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

The metaphor of rape has framed understandings of the U.S. military’s occupation of Okinawa.

Sex & Food in the Nineteenth-Century American Metropolis

By notcheseditor October 1, 2015 Early America, Food and Sexuality 0 comments

Scandal erupted in a Philadelphia marketplace one Saturday morning in August 1839.

Her Virginal Members: Chastity and Sexual Desire in the Middle-Ages

By Kathryn Maude September 1, 2015 Medieval 1 comment

‘Virginity is often lost and chastity outraged without any commerce with another’.

Sexuality, Family Planning, and the British Left: An Interview with Stephen Brooke

By notcheseditor June 30, 2015 Author Interviews, United Kingdom 0 comments

Interview by David Minto A sweeping account of sexuality and socialism in twentieth century Britain, Stephen Brooke’s Sexual Politics has the feel of a traditional political history even as it foregrounds a subject still too often ignored in the analysis of political modernity. Demonstrating how leftist organizing shaped national battles over abortion, […]

Astrological Birth Control: Fertility Awareness and the Politics of Non-Hormonal Contraception

By Donna Drucker June 11, 2015 Medicine and Sexuality 0 comments

Donna J. Drucker Astrological birth control was an outgrowth of increasing interests in the late 1960s and early 1970s in horoscopes and astrology, self-advocacy and self-knowledge in the women’s health movement, and in the management of reproduction without artificial means. Pope Paul VI declared in the 1968 encyclical Humane Vitae […]