Tag: United States history
J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI, and the "Sex Deviates" Program
By Christopher Elias June 21, 2016 Author Interviews 0 comments
Interview by Christopher Michael Elias For nearly four decades, the Federal Bureau of Investigation used the so-called Sex Deviates Program to investigate and badger gay men and women in the United States. That harassment was justified by the belief that homosexuals posed a security risk in two ways: their behavior […]
Archives of Desire: Analog Sexting
By Josh Adair May 3, 2016 Archives of Desire 1 comment
My grandparents helped pave the way for virtual trysts.
How to Study an American Sex Scandal
By notcheseditor April 19, 2016 Post-1945 United States 0 comments
When does sex become a political weapon?
Presidential Penis Politics: A Micro-History
By Rachel Hope Cleves March 5, 2016 Early America 2 comments
Rachel Hope Cleves Donald J. Trump's penis, size unknown, has reared its head as a political issue. On Thursday night, during yet another GOP presidential primary debate, the party's leading candidate debated the size of his penis with rival Marco Rubio before an audience of millions. Mainstream media channels such […]
Inventing the Family Farm: Towards a History of Rural Heterosexuality
By Gabriel Rosenberg February 18, 2016 Post-1945 United States 1 comment
Gabriel N. Rosenberg In the postwar United States, the state's project of preserving the family farm was yoked to its project of making the modern American family. The family farm enjoys an uncanny amount of deference in modern American political culture in part because it is an unusually potent sexual symbol: […]
"Arresting Dress": A Student Interview with Clare Sears
By Rachel Hope Cleves January 12, 2016 Author Interviews, LGBTQ 0 comments
Interview by Kalin Bullin, M. Blake Butler, Deborah Deacon, Christina Fabiani, Elise Forest-Hammond, Adam Kostrich, Jake Sherman, and Lee Thiessen Edited by Rachel Hope Cleves This post launches a new series for NOTCHES, which will feature students interviewing authors of recent works in the history of sexuality. The goal of […]
A Christmas Abortion
By Gillian Frank December 15, 2015 Post-1945 United States 1 comment
Gillian Frank On Christmas Eve 1955, Jacqueline Smith died from an illegal abortion at her boyfriend Thomas G. Daniel's apartment. Jacqueline Smith was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania in 1935. A quiet, driven and talented artist, she graduated from high school in 1953 and moved to New York City where she […]
Understanding Zika & the Abortion Debate in Brazil: A View from 1940
Naming & Shaming Women: Reporting on VD Trials During WWI
Syphilis Onstage: Eugène Brieux's Damaged Goods
The Catholic Church and Child Sexual Abuse in Twentieth-Century Ireland
Reverend Anna Garlin Spencer and the Rise of "Family Life" in Early Sex Education
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