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Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work
Interviews with scholars of sex, sexuality and sex work about their new books.
October 8, 2026
Immoral Traffic An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India
Immoral Traffic: An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India (Cambridge UP, 2025) delves into the complex intersection of…
October 7, 2026
Notes from the Sex Worker Left
“If whores were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free” (ix). Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory (Duke UP, 2026) open…
September 15, 2026
Belfastmen
Professor Tom Hulme's second book reconstructs the erotic and romantic lives of queer men in Belfast across roughly seventy years, from the recriminal…
August 28, 2026
One in Five
One in five children will be sexually abused before their eighteenth birthday. This isn't a problem confined to a single country, city, or neighborhoo…
August 17, 2026
Sex Education 101
Do you look back at your sex ed classes and wonder WTF?! Are you a parent looking at your kid’s curriculum and asking the same question? Sex Educ…
August 8, 2026
The Arcana of Reproduction
The definitive feminist analysis of reproductive and ‘caring’ labor to emerge from Italian feminism of the 1970s. Emerging from the great social uphe…
August 1, 2026
The Kiss
The Kiss: A History of Passion and Power (Reaktion, 2026) by Professor Katie Barclay tells the surprising history of our most intimate gesture: th…
July 22, 2026
From the Skyscraper to the Wildflower
In 1905, when Broadway was already the most famous thoroughfare in New York City, a recreational photographer from Newark, New Jersey named Charles Gi…
July 22, 2026
A Jurisprudence of Conversations
Grounded in empirical studies, this book is both a history of the emergence of feminist jurisprudence in post-colonial India and a model of innovative…
July 19, 2026
Watching the Girls Go By
Molly Brookfield’s book, Watching the Girls Go By: A History of Street Harassment in the United States (University of North Carolina Press, 2026) expl…
July 7, 2026
BDSM Practices in Contemporary Poland
In BDSM Practices in Poland: Barbed Wire Floggings, Rope Orgasms, and the Problem with Desire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), cultural anthropologist and …
July 2, 2026
The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and Then Disappeared
Despite being one of the leading thinkers of the second wave feminist movement, today Shere Hite is little known, little written about, and, unsurpris…
June 25, 2026
The Cuban Revolution and the New Left
Understanding overlooked dimensions of the Cuban Revolution and its impact on the global left in the 1960s and beyond. This volume, The Cuban Revolut…
June 15, 2026
Queer Making
Karl Whittington joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, Queer Making: On Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe (Pennsylvania State University Pr…
June 14, 2026
For Better and Worse
Marriage rates have fallen dramatically since the 1970s. Yet far from devaluing marriage, people still overwhelmingly describe marriage as the highest…
June 8, 2026
Dating Apps, Queer Stigma, and Digital Intimacy in Kazakhstan
How queer men in Kazakhstan navigate dating apps in a context of stigma, surveillance, and limited legal protections. It shows how platforms like Grin…
May 31, 2026
A Scourge of Humanity
As the First World War came to a chaotic end, Europeans feared that a wave of crime and anarchy would sweep across their continent. The upheavals …
May 31, 2026
Food Porn
Is food porn a vibrant and democratic new expression of modern food culture or a superficial addition to an image-saturated world? Tracing its o…
May 27, 2026
Campus Whisper Networks
Campus Whisper Networks: Knowing with Sexual Assault Survivors (Rutgers University Press, 2026) examines how personal knowledge about student sexu…
May 25, 2026
Making the Renaissance Man
Looking beyond the marble elegance of Michelangelo's David, the pugnacious, passionate, and--crucially--important story of Renaissance manhood. Timo…