Gender & Sexuality

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illustration of Prince George IV
Unspoken Anxiety or Vivid Metaphor?
A card celebrating March 8 as International Women’s Day.
International Women's Day
Stenciled graffiti of a priest pursuing two children
Secrecy and Celibacy: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse
Sign that reads, "You are either affected or infected with HIV/AIDS."
HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks' declaration from Flag Day 1919 that forbade membership in the organization to anarchists, Industrial Workers of the World, Bolsheviks, and other organizations perceived as unpatriotic.
Sanitizing American Tradition
The Great Mosque of Djenne. This image illustrates the influence of Islam in the region and the building style of the region. Its origins are unknown but it shows the power of the emperors who built this structure that still stands today.
A New View of West African Empires
illustration of people around a fire ring
The Causes and Costs of Barrenness
Women at the Women's March in DC with signs: "Can't Believe We STILL Have to Protest", "Keep your Hands and Laws Off my Body", "RAPE CULTURE" with a line through it
The Long History of #MeToo
Interracial Marriage in "Post-Racial" America
Are Women People? The Equal Rights Amendment Then and Now
Marchers for the Equal Rights Amount, holding banner that reads "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex"
The Equal Rights Amendment: Then and Now
Women suffragists marching on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C., March 3, 1913.
The First Time Women Marched on Washington
Margaret Gorman, winner of the first Miss America Pageant in 1922.
Beauty Pageants and American Politics
Sheikha Mozah
Beyond the Veil: Women in the Mideast and North Africa
Feminism in Egypt: New Alliances, Old Debates
Madame President: A History of the Women Who Ran before Hillary
The History Chicks Logo
Best in History Online: The History Chicks
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Wife, Mother, Revolutionary Thinker
Marshall "Major" Taylor was a professional African American cyclist
(Bicycle) Wheels of Change
A group of men and women. The women hold signs that say "My Body, My Choice"
Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice
This painting by Jean-Baptiste de Saive (1562) portrays the environment of the kitchen as a place of making. As Wall argues, the kitchen was one of the main spaces for women to create and experiment.
Kitchen Wisdom
The FBI’s finely tuned image as a scientific, fact-driven investigative force, cultivated in images like this, often overshadowed how the Bureau’s priorities on issues such as homosexuality were shaped by popular fears rooted in homophobia.
G-Men, Gays, and Government
Courtesans such as Lilly Langtry (in this 1885 photograph) are claimed to have started utilizing underwear as tool of seduction.
Where’s that Sexy History Under There?
Private Matter or Public Crisis? Defining and Responding to Domestic Violence