Tag: feminism

Lesbian Histories and Futures: A Dispatch From “Gay American History @ 40”

By Rachel Hope Cleves May 18, 2016 Dispatches 5 comments

Rachel Hope Cleves The fortieth-anniversary celebration of Jonathan Ned Katz’s classic document collection Gay American History convened Wednesday evening, May 4, at John Jay College in New York City, with a panel on lesbian history. Cheryl Clarke presided over comments by Caroll Smith-Rosenberg and Claire Potter to an audience that […]

The New Polish Government and ‘Gender Ideology’

By Lukasz Szulc April 28, 2016 Modern Europe, Religion and Sexuality 1 comment

The crusade against ‘gender ideology’ started with a letter by the Bishops’ Conference of Poland.

Scottish Storytelling Sessions: Queer History, Community and Archives

By Alva Traebert March 29, 2016 LGBTQ, United Kingdom 1 comment

Oral history faces the challenge of bridging the divide between the observer and the observed.

The Cervical Cap in the Feminist Women’s Health Movement, 1976–1988

By Donna Drucker March 24, 2016 Medicine and Sexuality, Post-1945 United States 3 comments

The late 1970s and early 1980s was the historical peak of interest in the cervical cap in the United States.

After Roe: Engaging the Lost History of the Abortion Debate

By Gillian Frank January 21, 2016 Author Interviews 0 comments

Interview by Jennifer Au, Taylor Branch, Sharim Estevez, Evelyn Giovine, Juliette Hackett, Jarron McAllister, Rebecca Neill, and Colleen O’Gorman Edited by Gillian Frank This post is part of a new series for NOTCHES, which features students interviewing authors of recent works in the history of sexuality. Our second entry has students […]

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

By Donna Drucker January 14, 2016 Medicine and Sexuality, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

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 […]

The Conservative Roots of the Reproductive Rights Revolution

By notcheseditor July 7, 2015 Medicine and Sexuality, Post-1945 United States 0 comments

In our second installment of Notches’ series commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut decision, Beth Bailey invites us to complicate progressive narratives of the sexual revolution by analyzing the conservative underpinnings of Griswold and to re-focus our attention on women’s hard-fought struggles to redefine their roles in American society. Beth Bailey When I teach […]