Historians should not assume that religious institutions have always been hostile to gay rights.
Tag: transnational
Found in Translation: How Sexual Debates Developed Across the Modern World
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 […]
Food and Sex Through the Ages
Expressing interest in both the history of food and the history of sexuality still has the power to raise eyebrows.
Aesthetic uses of sex in early Japanese Butoh dance
Artistic networks and discourses spanned cultural centers from Tokyo to Paris and New York.
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