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Notches

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Sex and the Family

  • Michelle Vider
  • July 18, 2016
For Notches, Kristy L. Slominski writes about the Reverend Anna Garlin Spencer, an early 20th century Unitarian minister who worked with scientists to educate the public on sexual health. Spencer’s efforts…
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Translating Queer Identity and History

  • Michelle Vider
  • June 13, 2016
For Notches, a journal on the history of sexuality, Claire Hayward collects a series of responses from historians on writing queer history. These responses address the question, methods, and terminology…
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Celibacy, Masculinity, and the Clergy

  • Michelle Vider
  • February 15, 2016
Jennifer Thibodeaux discusses in an interview with Notches her recent work on the historical emergence of celibacy among clergy. In particular, Thibodeaux focuses on how the clergy created an image…
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The Ladies’ University Experience

  • Michelle Vider
  • January 18, 2016
Donna Drucker writes for Notches on the Dean of Women’s Office at Purdue University. The Dean of Women’s Office was the late 1960s predecessor to the university’s modern-day Dean of…
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The Queer Holiday Blues

  • Michelle Vider
  • December 14, 2015
Lauren Gutterman writes for Notches, a journal on the history of sexuality, about the “holiday blues” documented in postwar queer literature. Gutterman’s examination of holiday-themed issues of queer literary publications…
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Have You Met the Huckster?

  • Michelle Vider
  • October 5, 2015
At Notches, a peer-reviewed blog on history and sexuality, Robert J. Gamble explores the figure of the 19th century female huckster as well as the middle-class anxieties that slandered and…
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