Peek in the Stacks

he notion of “Queering the page” transcends topics of gender and sexuality to include instances of hegemonic or heteronormative disruption that push back against dominant ideologies of power. The episode “Queering the Page and the Nature of Disruption” begins with an analysis of two legal documents (this Affidavit and this Summons), the first of which queers kinship....

When passage of the 18th Amendment in 1919 ushered in the era of Prohibition in the United States, an English bartender named Harry Craddock, who had mixed drinks at the Hollenden Hotel in Cleveland, OH and the Knickerbocker Hotel in New York City, left the US and returned to the UK so he continue working in his chosen profession...  

The history of psychological research on nonbinary individuals is a history of writing about these folks, making them the object of study. While key sexologists and researchers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries such as Havelock Ellis, Magnus Hirschfeld, and Richard von Krafft-Ebing made claims viewed as progressive in their own times, their work also spurred...

In 1933, Street & Smith acquired Astounding Stories, one of the first pulp magazines to center the genre of science-fiction as its twenty-cent selling point. In the following years “John W. Campbell would join the editorial staff of Astounding Stories in September 1937, replacing F. Orlin Tremaine as editor in 1938 when Tremaine became editorial director.....