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History Seminar: Sex

This research guide lists resources relevant for the students in the History Seminar: Sex. Professor Chie Ikeya. Fall 2022

Marriage Manuals & Advice

Everyday Life of Women in America is a collection of digitized primary sources that illuminate the daily lives of women in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Conduct of life manuals and domestic management literature are major highlights of the collection. The collection includes monographs, pamphlets, periodicals, and broadsides. Search for "marriage manual," "fornication," "adultery."

Gerritsen Women's History Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs (1543-1945) is the digitized version of the physical materials in the Gerritsen Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs [microform]. It includes materials documenting feminist thought and women’s rights movements around the world. The collection also includes accounts of the condition of women through the centuries. Search for "sex* AND practice or advice

The Vogue Archive (1892- 1 month ago) contains every issue of the American magazine Vogue published, including all covers, articles, illustrations, advertisements, fold-outs, and anything else that appeared in the original edition.

  • Search for "advice column." Check out the article "People Are Talking About: The New Morals: Ann Landers Tells How We Have Changed"
  • Search for "sex"" AND advice,  "sex advice." Check out the article "Health: New Idea About Drinking/Old Test for Rape Revised..."
  • Search for "sexual revolution"

The Adult: The Journal of Sex, 1897-1891  (microfiche at Douglass) The editor in chief George Bedborough was a supporter of eugenics and free love.

Catholic Marriage Manual (1958) by Reverend George A. Kelly. Call # CAMDEN HQ734.K37

A Marriage Manual: A Practical Guide-Book to Sex and Marriage (1939) by Hannah M. Stone, M.D. & Abraham Stone, M.D. Call # LSM21.S68 1937

Teaching America about Sex: Marriage Guides and Sex Manuals from the late Victorians to Dr. Ruth (1999) by Michael E. Melody & Linda M. Paterson. ALEX HQ56.M365 1999

LGBTQIA+ Intimacies

Adultery and Prostitution

Gold Rush Abroad: The Trajectory of Singapore-Based Thai Transsexual (Male to Female) Sex Workers in Global Sex Tourism is an article about sex work which is part of Thailand's tourism-based economic development model.
 
Senjō no Onnatachi = Senso Daughters, Daughters of War (online) is a documentary investigating the abuses of "comfort women" inflicted by the Japanese soldiers in Papua New Guinea. The women were conscripted to wash, cook and clean, but instead they were forced into prostitution.
 
The Price of Sex (online) is a documentary shedding light on the underground criminal network of human trafficking and experiences of trafficked Eastern European women forced into prostitution abroad.