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 […]
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Her Virginal Members: Chastity and Sexual Desire in the Middle-Ages
‘Virginity is often lost and chastity outraged without any commerce with another’.
Archives of Desire: James Huneker “Nosophilia: A Nordau Heroine”
Discussions of “deviant” sexuality were visible and vibrant within artistic and literary communities.
"The Gay Bulge" or Can We Study Medieval Sexuality Through Puns?
Perhaps sometimes a ‘gay bulge’ is just a gae bolga.
Beyond penetration: rethinking the murder of Edward II
Kit Heyam On 23 September 1327, the young king Edward III received word that his father had died. The former Edward II, who had been coerced into abdication in January of that year, had been imprisoned in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, at the time of his death. While official reports stated […]
Curating LGBTQ Histories: Queer Season at Sutton House
Sean Curran Just a decade ago, the idea of an exhibition addressing LGBT themes in a National Trust house would likely have been dismissed. Today, however, the Trust is desperately trying to eschew its reputation as a stuffy and conservative organisation that, as writer George Monbiot notes, regurgitates a ‘sanitised, tea-towel history’. […]
Queer round the edges: Mary Stewart’s post-war middlebrow fiction (cont’d)
Amy Tooth Murphy Part 2: The Case of the Vanishing Queen Regular readers may well be poised on the edge of their seats, awaiting the resolution of Tuesday’s nail-biting cliffhanger. When last we saw our middlebrow heroes, gruff butch, Marion Bradford, had met a grisly end at the bottom of […]
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