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Onania’s Letters and the Female Masturbator: Women, Gender, and the “Abominable Crime” of Self-Pollution 奥尼亚的信件和女性自慰者:女性、性别和自我污染的“可恶罪行”

2区历史学

Journal of the History of Sexuality Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.7560/jhs32304

Elizabeth Schlappa

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Pornography on Rails: Trains and Belgium’s “War on Pornography,” 1880–1891 铁路上的色情:火车和比利时的“色情战争”，1880-1891

2区历史学

Journal of the History of Sexuality Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI: 10.7560/jhs32302

Leon Janssens

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Sexpo '76: Gender, Media, and the 1976 Hays-Ray Congressional Sex Scandal Sexpo'76：性别、媒体与1976年海斯-雷国会性丑闻

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Journal of the History of Sexuality Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.7560/jhs32202

Sarah B. Rowley

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Unawareness and Expertise: Acquiring Knowledge about Sexuality in Postwar Poland 无知与专业：战后波兰性知识的获取

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Journal of the History of Sexuality Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.7560/jhs32201

Agata Ignaciuk, Natalia Jarska

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"Your Town Is Rotten": Prostitution, Profit, and the Governing of Vice in Kingston, Ontario, 1860s–1920s “你的城镇腐朽了”:19世纪60年代至20世纪20年代安大略省金斯敦的卖淫、利润和罪恶的治理

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Journal of the History of Sexuality Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.7560/jhs32203

Margaret O'Riordan Ross

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Pulp Sadomasochism and Sensational Narratives of Sexual Violence in the Postwar United States 战后美国低俗的性虐与耸人听闻的性暴力叙事

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Journal of the History of Sexuality Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.7560/jhs32204

Alex O'Connell

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Revisiting Sex and the Family 重温性与家庭

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Journal of the History of Sexuality Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.7560/jhs32105

D. Ghosh

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Trans without Borders: Resisting the Telos of Transgender Knowledge 跨性别无国界：抵制跨性别知识的Telos

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Journal of the History of Sexuality Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.7560/jhs32103

H. Chiang

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Defining Sex Tourism: International Advocacy, German Law, and Gay Activism at the End of the Twentieth Century 定义性旅游：二十世纪末的国际倡导、德国法律和同性恋活动

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Journal of the History of Sexuality Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.7560/jhs32102

Christopher Ewing

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"Not to Produce Newspapers, but Committed Radicals": The Underground Press, the New Left, and the Gay Liberation Counterpublic in the United States, 1965–1976 “不是生产报纸，而是坚定的激进分子”:1965-1976年美国的地下媒体、新左派和同性恋解放反公众