Tag: twentieth century

Catholicism, Contraception, and The History of Sexuality

The Commission had the potential to challenge the very nature of Catholic epistemology.

The Cologne Sexual Assaults in Historical Perspective

By notcheseditor January 19, 2016 Modern Europe 3 comments

Michelle Lynn Kahn “Are you safe?” Emails from loved ones flooded my inbox the first days of 2016. All assumed the worst-case scenario: that I was among the victims of the coordinated sexual assaults on New Year’s Eve at the Central Train Station in Cologne, Germany, where I am writing […]

Truly Ugandan: Martyrs, Pope Francis, and the Question of Sexuality

By notcheseditor January 5, 2016 African Sexualities, Religion and Sexuality 1 comment

Francis obscured both the colonial Christian and queer sexual contexts of the executions.

Christmas Isn’t for Queers

By Lauren Gutterman December 10, 2015 LGBTQ, Post-1945 United States 4 comments

Lauren Gutterman For most of us, envisioning Christmas in postwar America brings to mind tinsel-covered trees, girls and boys in matching pajamas, dads in Santa Claus beards, images drawn from old family photographs or the likes of It’s a Wonderful Life. Absent from these familial and familiar cultural memories are […]

Histories of Sexualities in Central and Eastern Europe

By Lukasz Szulc November 24, 2015 Dispatches, LGBTQ 0 comments

Łukasz Szulc Historical studies of sexualities in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) remain scarce. Researchers from the region, as well as other parts of the world, however, are increasingly uncovering both the regional commonalities and local specificities of how diverse sexualities were lived, policed and represented in CEE, the area stretching from Austria […]

“The Age of Youth in Argentina”: an interview with Valeria Manzano

By notcheseditor November 3, 2015 Author Interviews 0 comments

Interview by Mir Yarfitz In the 1950s, “youth” became a new consumer category of central importance to the worldwide social, cultural, and political transformations of the following decades. In The Age of Youth in Argentina: Culture, Politics, and Sexuality from Perón to Videla (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), Valeria […]

Seduction and Power in Revolutionary Bolivia

By notcheseditor October 15, 2015 Latin American Sexualities 0 comments

Elena McGrath Five years after the 1952 revolution gave all Bolivians the right to vote, removed forced labor requirements for indigenous communities, and nationalized Bolivia’s mineral wealth, a mechanic in Bolivia’s state-owned mining company, the Bolivian Mining Corporation (Corporación Minera de Bolivia, or COMIBOL) wrote to the municipal courts. He […]