📚 #NewBook by EMoDiR member
Umberto Grassi, What God Kept for Himself (Harvard U. Press, 2025). A study of Inquisition trials revealing the links between sexual nonconformity and religious dissent in Renaissance Italy
🔗 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
#EarlyModern #HistoryOfSexuality
If you want to know more about the role that France's imperial aspirations played in the development of the pathologisation of wet dreams in the 19th century, do have a look! #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #ColonialMedicine #FrenchHistory #Algeria #Orientalism #skystorians
Our Social Media Manager, Georgia, is moving on from NOTCHES. So, in her final #ThrowbackThursday post, she shares with us some of her favourite NOTCHES articles of all time:
#histsex #historyofsexuality #queerhistory
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Out today, we have Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics by Isabela de Oliveira Dornelas.
Read the full article here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Oy
CW: abortion, death in childbirth, sexual violence
#histsex #historyofsexuality #historyofmedicine #historyofscience
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New post out now!
Two More Weeks: The Brutality Behind Brazil’s Reproductive Politics by Isabela de Oliveira Dornelas.
Read the full article here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Oy
#histsex #historyofsexuality
Very happy with this lovely article about our exhibition (on the medical history of machines and treatments against wet dreams) at the "Centre Maurice Chalumeau en sciences des sexualités" in Geneva!
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🗃️ #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #skystorians
Back in 2021, we posted an extract from the introduction of Joanna Bourke’s book, Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia, and Post-Human Love, published by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social.
Find it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4c1
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If you are around, do come to the opening of our exhibition at the Maurice Chalumeau Centre for Sexual Sciences (in Geneva) on the 21st of October! We look forward to seeing you there!
🗃️ #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #SwissHistory #skystorians
For more information, see here: www.unige.ch/cmcss/actual...
#histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #skystorians #FrenchHistory #SwissHistory #Geneva
Today’s #ThrowbackThursday, we return to the bedroom...or, rather, the counselling couch, with ‘This isn’t so boring if you can get an outside climax’: Dr Joan Malleson and sexual counselling in Britain by Caroline Rusterholz.
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right-wing and other parts of the political spectrum in the East and West.
Sign up now to take part in person or virtually:
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#queerhistory #historyofsexuality #gender #genderhistory #germanhistory #historicalresearch #skystorians #historysky
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New on NOTCHES!
Illicit Monogamy: Inside a Fundamentalist Mormon Community by William Jankowiak
Read the exclusive author interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4PT
#LGBTQHistory #HistoryOfSexuality #FamilyStudies #ReligiousHistory #Polyamory #Polyamorous #Mormon
Makeup can also form part of how gender is read. For instance, eye makeup gets a very brief mention in Evidence for Trans Lives in Sumer by Cheryl Morgan. Read it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-2TW
#genderhistory #histsex #historyofsexuality
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In today’s new NOTCHES post, we interviewed Jacob Bloomfield on his monograph, Drag: A British History.
Read the full interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4PW
#historyofsexuality #histsex #genderhistory
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Would you mind if Neil Bartlett asked you a few personal questions about sex?
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#histsex #historyofsexuality #sexology
In case you haven’t seen it, today we posted our fascinating interview with Douglas Pretsell on Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century.
Read the full interview here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px
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#historyofsexuality #Germanhistory
Brand new NOTCHES post out now!
Read Urning: Queer Identity in the German Nineteenth Century by Douglas Pretsell here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4Px
#historyofsexuality #Germanhistory #queerhistory
Today’s #ThrowbackThursday is the wonderful article, ‘The Stimulus of the Flesh’ and Margaret Singleton’s Broken Vow by Laura Wood.
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#medievalhistory #historyofsexuality
#genderhistory #sexualviolence #interwarbritain #historyofpolicing #historyofsexuality
📷 West Midlands Police from West Midlands, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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Ross’ work demonstrates the importance of homosexual men and female prostitutes in shaping the city of Paris.
Read our interview with Ross on Public City/Public Sex: Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-3MQ
#histsex #historyofsexuality
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Yesterday was #bastilleday, so we thought we’d delve into some of our old #Frenchhistory posts.
Post-revolutionary France saw much societal upheaval, particularly in the capital, as Andrew Israel Ross’ article outlines.
#le14juillet #fêtenationale #historyofsexuality
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This article delves into many more aspects of this period of Germany’s queer past, but we will leave you with Foit’s pertinent assertion that ‘Our progress and our (queer) history is never linear’.
#queerhistory #historyofsexuality
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The importance of terminology, changing definitions, and, in particular, dictionaries as ‘site[s] of contestation for trans self-determination,’ are central to “Information Pleases”: Dictionaries and Trans History by Joseph Gamble.
Read it here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4IG
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"Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe: Male–Male Sexual Relations, 1400–1750, Noel Malcolm, Oxford University Press.
Reviewed by Gary Ferguson
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#QueerHistory #EarlyModernEurope #HistoryOfSexuality #PremodernStudies #LGBTQHistory #BookReview lgbtqreads.bsky.social
DeVun’s work explores sex and gender beyond the binary within Christian Europe, examining the use of nonbinary sex in defining distinctions between men and women, humans and animals.
Link to the article here: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4fE
#histsex #historyofsexuality
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I seem to post a lot about Section 28. 4pm, today (Friday 6th June) - free, online. It will be worth your while, I promise. #IHR #HistoryofSexuality #HistSex #Section28 Everyone is welcome
Raye writes that, “underneath the commentary of the wonder books, one finds acceptance of changing sex as a surprising natural phenomenon”.
#histsex #historyofsexuality
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As Drucker’s work demonstrates, there are many complexities around reproduction in transition, from the balancing of prenatal care with gender affirming care, to the lack of understanding of medical professionals.
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