What do we know about early modern sex? And how do we know it? How, when, and why
does sex become history? In Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns, Valerie Traub addresses …

Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality attends to the silence around
asexuality in queer, feminist, and lesbian thinking from the late 1960s to the present …

A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age
of MeToo Women are in a bind. In the name of consent and empowerment, they must …

Partially in response to the recent articulation of asexual identities and communities,
scholars have begun to use the term compulsory sexuality to describe the assumption that …

Background: There is low social awareness of vaginismus despite it being a relatively
common female sexual dysfunction that makes vaginal penetration painful, difficult, and/or …

This article explores the relationship between contemporary asexual lives and compulsory
sexuality, or the privileging of sexuality and the marginalizing of nonsexuality. Drawing on …

Misogyny online in forms such as explicit rape threats has become so prevalent and
rhetorically distinctive it resembles a new dialect or language. Much of this 'Rapeglish'is …

Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of
its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book …

Drawing on original qualitative research, I argue that the concept of 'epistemic
injustice'proposed by the feminist philosopher Miranda Fricker, and located within a long …

Women's medicine explores the key role played by British female doctors in the production
and circulation of contraceptive knowledge and the handling of sexual disorders between …