Tag: sex work

Resisting the Virus of Prejudice: Sex Workers Fight the AIDS Panic

By Mindy Chateauvert July 7, 2016 Medicine and Sexuality 0 comments

Sex workers, working as peer researchers, mapped the epidemiology of HIV in 1985.

Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State—Part 2

By Regina Kunzel July 5, 2016 Post-1945 United States 0 comments

How do race, gender, and sexuality intersect in order to shape policing and imprisonment?

Rape & the Sexual Politics of Homosociality: The U.S. Military Occupation of Okinawa

The metaphor of rape has framed understandings of the U.S. military’s occupation of Okinawa.

“When Sex Threatened the State”: An Interview with Saheed Aderinto

By notcheseditor August 25, 2015 Author Interviews 0 comments

Interview by Pat Omoregie Saheed Aderinto’s When Sex Threatened the State: Illicit Sexuality, Nationalism, and Politics in Colonial Nigeria, 1900-1958 (Illinois, 2015), explores tensions in colonial Nigeria through the lens of a struggle over how to control and regulate prostitution. Aderinto argues that the British perceived prostitution as evidence of […]

365 Notches: (re)marks on our 1st anniversary

By notcheseditor January 6, 2015 History of Sexuality 0 comments

It’s hard to believe that we are celebrating one year of Notches! On 6 January 2014, with the support of the Raphael Samuel History Centre, we launched a new blog with the goal of getting folks inside and outside the academy to think critically about histories of sex and sexuality across […]

Valentine’s as Prostitution, Marriage as a Trade: Commerce, Sex, History (and a recipe)

By Julia Laite February 14, 2014 Sexual Labour 2 comments

Julia Laite The only thing that I like about Valentine’s Day is the fact that it comes along with my family’s tradition of making a chocolate torte that is basically nothing but butter, eggs, ground almonds, and sugar, which I eat for breakfast.[1] Growing up in Canada, Valentine’s was a […]

Sinead and Miley: A History Lesson

By Julia Laite January 21, 2014 Sexual Labour, United Kingdom 0 comments

Julia Laite Ok, so I know that the Sinead/Miley thing is old news, lying (by internet standards) in the distant past of November, 2013. You can feel free to remind yourself of it here. But seeing as one of my major points is about the repetitive nature of debates over […]