Journal of the History of Sexuality

05/30/2025

ATTN: CALL FOR EDITORS

01/15/2025

Our first issue of 2025 has arrived! Here's a list of the great articles you'll find in 34:1. To order your copy, visit https://utpress.utexas.edu/journals/journal-of-the-history-of-s*xuality/

09/13/2024

The September 2024 issue 33:3 is now available!

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06/20/2024

Congratulations are in order!
2024 Canadian Historical Association’s Committee on the History of Sexuality Best Article Prize has been awarded to Margaret O’Riordan Ross, for “Your Town is Rotten”: Prostitution, Profit, and the Governing of Vice in Kingston, Ontario, 1860s-1920s.

05/13/2024

Now available: May 2024 issue 33:2!
Here's a look at the articles you'll find inside.

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02/01/2024

We'd like to congratulate several Journal of the History of Sexuality authors on their recent award wins!

2023 Judith R. Walkowitz Prize: Seth Stein LeJacq, "O My Poor Arse, My Arse Can Best Tell": Surgeons, Ordinary Witnesses, and the Sodomitical Body in Georgian Britain.

2022 Berkshire Article Prize, History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality: Meg Weeks, A Prostitutes’ Jamboree: The World Whores’ Congress of the 1980s and the Rise of a New Feminism.

2022-2023 Article Prize from the Research Society for American Periodicals: Benjamin Serby, "Not to Produce Newspapers, but Committed Radicals": The Underground Press, the New Left, and the Gay Liberation Counterpublic in the United States, 1965-1976.

Links to these articles can be found in the comments.

01/19/2024

The January 2024 Special Issue is now available!
Theme: Censorship and Sexual Science in the Twentieth Century.

Here's a look at what you'll find inside 33:1.
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09/22/2023

The September 2023 issue has arrived! Here's a look at what you'll find inside 32:3.

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09/08/2023

Congratulations to JHS author Meg Weeks for winning the Berkshire Conference Article Prize in Women/Gender/Sexualities!

Meg’s article, “A Prostitutes’ Jamboree: The World Whores’ Congress of the 1980s and the Rise of a New Feminism,” looks at international s*x work activism and its impact on feminism and s*x positivity.

Check it out on Project Muse:

Wearing a black cloth wrapped around her head that obscured her eyes and nose, a spokeswoman for the Marxist-feminist English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) gave a heated interview to a reporter from the British weekly The Observer in the wake of the second World Whores’ Congress in 1986. “Forg...

08/08/2023

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06/05/2023

The new issue 32:2 is out in the world! Are you subscribing yet?

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01/27/2023

Our newest issue 32:1 is now available! Here's a look at the contents. Visit https://utpress.utexas.edu/journals/journal-of-the-history-of-s*xuality/ to subscribe!