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Tag: post-1945 US History
How to Study an American Sex Scandal
When does sex become a political weapon?
“I Had the First Orgasm”: Monica Lewinsky & the Politics of Heterosexuality in the 1990s
What happens if we take Monica Lewinsky at her word?
The Cervical Cap in the Feminist Women’s Health Movement, 1976–1988
The late 1970s and early 1980s was the historical peak of interest in the cervical cap in the United States.
Inventing the Family Farm: Towards a History of Rural Heterosexuality
Gabriel N. Rosenberg In the postwar United States, the state’s project of preserving the family farm was yoked to its project of making the modern American family. The family farm enjoys an uncanny amount of deference in modern American political culture in part because it is an unusually potent sexual symbol: […]
Martin Luther King Jr. and the History of Sexuality
Gillian Frank Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States. To reflect upon Dr. King’s life, legacy and influence, NOTCHES offers some primary sources with which to begin thinking about King’s place in the history of sexuality. Even as historians are increasingly reckoning with King’s complicated private life, King’s views on […]
AIDS, Sexuality and American Religion: An Interview With Anthony Petro
Interview by Lynne Gerber and Gillian Frank Anthony Petro’s After the Wrath of God (Oxford, 2015) is one of the first academic books to recount and analyze the broad range of religious responses to the emergence of AIDS in the United States in the 1980s and 90s. Moving the conversation […]
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