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17th-Century Dildo Shopping with the Ladies: On the Contested Terrain of Early Modern Desire

17th-Century Dildo Shopping with the Ladies: On the Contested Terrain of Early Modern Desire

Annabelle Hirsch Explores the History of Female Self-Pleasure

By Annabelle Hirsch | March 6, 2024

The Sexual Double Standards That Led to the Baby Boom—and ‘Girls in Trouble’

The Sexual Double Standards That Led to the Baby Boom—and ‘Girls in Trouble’

Playboy,
and Teen Pregnancy">Gabrielle Glaser Recounts an Era of Prudery, Playboy,
and Teen Pregnancy

By Gabrielle Glaser | January 27, 2021

On Ratchet Respectability and Beyoncé's Sexual Politics

On Ratchet Respectability and Beyoncé's Sexual Politics

Omise'eke Tinsley and Revolutions in Black Feminism

By Omise'eke Tinsley | November 21, 2018

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Dirty Dancing Belongs in the Lesbian Rom-Com Canon">Dirty Dancing Belongs in the Lesbian Rom-Com Canon

Esther Newton Makes an Important Case

By Esther Newton | November 14, 2018

The Golden Notebook During a Summer of Too Many Weddings">Reading <emThe Golden Notebook During a Summer of Too Many Weddings">

The Golden Notebook During a Summer of Too Many Weddings">Reading The Golden Notebook During a Summer of Too Many Weddings

On Doris Lessing's Exploration of the "Free Woman"

By Lara Feigel | May 10, 2018

The Comics of Aline Kominsky-Crumb: Claiming Objectification as Desire

The Comics of Aline Kominsky-Crumb: Claiming Objectification as Desire

Hillary Chute on the Pioneering Feminist Cartoonist

By Hillary Chute | May 2, 2018

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