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“Arresting Dress”: A Student Interview with Clare Sears

By Rachel Hope Cleves January 12, 2016 Author Interviews, LGBTQ 0 comments

Interview by Kalin Bullin, M. Blake Butler, Deborah Deacon, Christina Fabiani, Elise Forest-Hammond, Adam Kostrich, Jake Sherman, and Lee Thiessen Edited by Rachel Hope Cleves This post launches a new series for NOTCHES, which will feature students interviewing authors of recent works in the history of sexuality. The goal of […]

Found in Translation: How Sexual Debates Developed Across the Modern World

By Dr Heike Bauer December 3, 2015 Medicine and Sexuality 4 comments

Heike Bauer A new collection of essays I edited, Sexology and Translation: Cultural and Scientific Encounters Across the Modern World (Temple UP, 2015) shows that the emergence of modern sexuality was a global phenomenon. The book examines the contemporaneous emergence of sexual science in Europe, Asia, Peru, and the Middle […]

"The Gay Bulge" or Can We Study Medieval Sexuality Through Puns?

By Tom O'Donnell April 21, 2015 LGBTQ, Medieval 0 comments

Perhaps sometimes a ‘gay bulge’ is just a gae bolga.

Eugenics and Intersex: The consequences of defining "normal" bodies

By Katelyn Dykerman March 3, 2015 Editors Picks, Medicine and Sexuality 5 comments

Decisions to limit life based on social or cultural biases contain dangerous eugenic possibilities.

Mau Mau, anti-colonialism and "female genital mutilation"

By Onni Gust November 20, 2014 African Sexualities 2 comments

Female genital mutilation and postcolonial struggles are in fact intimately and historically linked.

Orthodox Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Re-Making of Jewish Sexuality

By Rachel Gordan October 28, 2014 Post-1945 United States, Religion and Sexuality 0 comments

Rachel Gordan In 1949, Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male became a bestseller and sparked a widespread conversation about sexual norms and sexual variance in the US. Kinsey’s 1953 volume on Sexual Behavior in the Human Female was even more explosive as it challenged widely held views of female sexuality. […]

‘A Temporary Member’: ‘Hermaphrodites’ and Sexual Identity in Early Modern Russia

By Marianna Muravyeva June 24, 2014 Early Modern, Medicine and Sexuality 4 comments

Marianna Muravyeva Russian history of sexuality is very problematic. We have yet a lot to discover about same-sex relationships, sexual variations and attitudes to various sexual practices on the Russian pathway to modernity. The little we know suggests that one’s sexual identity was subject to close scrutiny from the community, the […]