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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

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Journal of the History of Sexuality Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.7560/jhs32101

Benjamin Serby

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Entangled Archives and Latin Americanist Histories of Sexuality 纠缠档案和拉丁美洲性史

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Journal of the History of Sexuality Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.7560/jhs32104

Zeb Tortorici

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Researching African Histories of Sexuality: In Praise of Excavating the Erotic 研究非洲的性史:赞美发掘情欲

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Journal of the History of Sexuality Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.7560/jhs32106

N. Erlank, S. Klausen

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The Trans Woman of Color's History of Sexuality 有色人种跨性别女性的性史

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Journal of the History of Sexuality Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI: 10.7560/jhs32107

Jules Gill-Peterson

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Retribution, Reward, and Reincarnation: Gender Nonnormativity as the Supernatural in Late Imperial China’s Gender System 报应、奖赏与轮回:晚清中国性别体系中的超自然性别非规范性

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Journal of the History of Sexuality Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.7560/jhs31302

Ao Huang

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From Neighbors to Outcasts: Evangelical Gay Activism in the Late 1970s 从邻居到弃儿：20世纪70年代末的福音派同性恋激进主义

IF 0.6 2区历史学

Journal of the History of Sexuality Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI: 10.7560/jhs31303

W. Stell

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