The expectations and even the very way they defined terms such as ‘gender’ and ‘sexuality’ differed greatly...
Sexuality
The history of transgender and gender nonconforming people in the United States is one of struggle, but...
The category of ‘persons who have changed their sex’ in the wonder books cannot be exactly matched...
Men were transient figures (and often dupes) of light-fingered sex workers, but women’s relationships with each other...
In 1776, a 24-year-old Quaker woman named Jemima Wilkinson died of fever, and came back to life...
During the past two decades, historians of twentieth-century Britain have delineated the landscape of a “modern sexual...
In early modern Sweden bathing was a part of everyday life. There were public and private hot-steam...
The word aphrodisiac only began to be used to describe such foods in the late seventeenth century....
One of the biggest challenges facing medieval historians is interpreting the actions of individuals at a remove...
The Boston Tea Party, a foundational moment of political rebellion, was a protest against tea, and tea...
In 1896, a woman university student living in Zurich published in pamphlet form an extraordinary tirade against...
As important as sexuality is to being human, it is often viewed as a taboo topic for...