Cari Maes To date, Brazil has registered over 500 cases of Zika-related microcephaly and another 4,000 cases have yet to be confirmed. With the country set to host the 2016 Summer Olympics, what was a domestic public health crisis has attracted international concern and media attention. In particular, Zika has […]
Tag: twentieth century
Naming & Shaming Women: Reporting on VD Trials During WWI
In 1918 over 100 women were convicted for infecting a member of the armed forces with VD.
The Catholic Church and Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Ireland
It was their word against the word of the adults, the doers of God’s work on Earth.
Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State—Part 2
How do race, gender, and sexuality intersect in order to shape policing and imprisonment?
‘Every time I see a cock I go funny’: what regional studies bring to histories of sexuality
When sexual desire was not attached to notions of sexual identity.
More Than Loving: Race, Sexuality & Public Memory in the Movement for Marriage Equality
Discussion of Obergefell compared activism for marriage equality with efforts to secure equal rights.
Would you mind if Neil Bartlett asked you a few personal questions about sex?
The Wellcome Collection’s ‘Institute of Sexology’ was the first major event of its kind in the UK.