Loved talking to the super sparky & very funny @isaacbutler.bsky.social about sex & AIDS, censorship, free speech, Palestine, South Park & The Simpsons. How the free market was the real winner of the last culture war. And why Lena Dunham is the Shere Hite of today. 💌 lithub.com/god-sex-porn...

God, Sex, Porn, Art, and Aids: Revisiting the Culture Wars of the 1980s and 90s

Isaac Butler and Rosa Campbell are both historians and writers whose latest work focuses on the culture war of the 1980s and 1990s: Butler’s The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art and the Birth of Ameri…

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I wrote about Shere Hite and culture wars then and now for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/shere-hite-t...

Shere Hite: the woman who changed the narrative on the female orgasm in the 1970s

Shere Hite dropped a bomb on American society when she upended traditional notions about female sexuality.

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Lovely write-up of my book in the @thetls.bsky.social by Angela Saini. Great to see Shere's name on the front of the print edition! Think she would have loved that. 💋 www.the-tls.com/politics-soc...

Forgotten feminist

The Hite Report, Rosa Campbell reminds us, is the thirtieth bestselling book of all time. Published in 1976, it made its author, Shere Hite, a fortune practically overnight, allowing her to move from ...

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Just two tickets left to my Sheffield book event this Thursday 9th July with the great @claresitafisher.bsky.social. Join us for some chat about Shere Hite, the Hite Report, sex, politics, feminism and writing. 💋 www.outsavvy.com/event/37031/...

Such a great photo choice to illustrate an interview with what sounds like an amaaazing new book on the Hite report by @rosavcampbell.bsky.social Excited to read! publicseminar.org/2026/07/re-r...

Re-Revolutionizing the Female Orgasm - Public Seminar

Rachel Potter interviews Rosa Campbell about her scholarly biography Shere Hite, The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and Then Disappeared

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So thrilled at this generous write up of my book by one of my favourite feminist historians. thank you @zorasimic.bsky.social 🪄💌 www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...

Zora Simic reviews ‘The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared: Shere Hite and The Hite Report’ by Rosa Campbell

When Shere Hite, the feminist sex researcher best known as the author of The Hite Report: A nationwide study of female sexuality (1976), died in London in 2020, aged seventy-seven, she was eulogised a...

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My new short article is now out in no. 3-4, vol. 59 of @pop-jrnl.bsky.social. In the piece, I reflect on the experience of designing & delivering what was *probably* the first module on whiteness in modern British history in a UK university history department. The module is running again in 2026-27.

Working out whiteness in modern British history

Liburd’s Commentary considers the place of whiteness in the teaching and research of modern British history. It does so through a reflection on the experience of designing and delivering ‘The White...

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Bravo @isaacbutler.bsky.social, what an illuminating read this is! Want to know why (and precisely HOW) the New Right came for visual artists in the 1990s? Why did they hate Robert Mapplethorpe SO GODDAMN MUCH that in order to censor him they sent his images to hundreds of thousands of people?!

Really excited to be in conversation with the sparkling Clare Fisher about my book in Sheffield, at the great @junobooks.bsky.social in July. www.outsavvy.com/event/37031/...

It's strange to me that Matt Goodwin seems to be on the BBC more than Hannah Spencer when he lost an election to her

Abortion Support Network is looking for helpline volunteers, especially people fluent in Polish or German. Maybe you know someone who would be a good fit? Volunteering with ASN was the best thing I started in my PhD. I'm happy to talk more about it to anyone interested!

Quite honoured by this wonderful, thoughtful review of my book by Claire Potter.

Claire Bond Potter@clairepotter.com · 3mo ago

My piece on the 50th anniversary of The Hite Report, published with all the dirty words intact: newrepublic.com/article/2106...

Excited to see the first pieces from our forthcoming special issue online, such as our introduction and the brilliant articles by @rosavcampbell.bsky.social and @lottehouwinktcate.bsky.social. More is coming soon! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘Sister Energy to Return the Promise of a Future’: Global Space and Time at Women’s Peace Camps of the 1980s

In the early 1980s, feminists established peace camps in response to the escalating threat of global nuclear war. In this essay, I demonstrate the shared political thought of feminist peace activis...

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Jen Evans@jennifervevans.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Really helpful and smart essay and volume on how to chart social change across borders in a global perspective. From @benwritesthings.bsky.social and Christian Jacobs. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks to everyone who came to tonight’s book launch for “ The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared: Shere Hite and the Hite Report” by Rosa Campbell! @rosavcampbell.bsky.social @hannahkateboast.bsky.social

Still time to get reading and come to this tomorrow (you don't need to have read the whole book)

hannah@hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 3mo ago

AND while @rosavcampbell.bsky.social is here, we'll be hosting a CRITIQUE reading group on Dworkin's Right-wing Women (recently reissued as a Penguin Classic...!) Friday 15th: critique.sps.ed.ac.uk/reading-grou...

This is tonight!

hannah@hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I'm chairing the launch of @rosavcampbell.bsky.social's new book at @lighthousebks.bsky.social on Wed! Recommended to all interested in feminist politics, social history, and anyone who likes turning heads on public transport. Come along: lighthousebookshop.com/events/the-b...

We have a whole host of events this month, all free! Last few tickets left for the book launch & reception this Thursday at 5pm - "The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared: Shere Hite and The Hite Report" by @rosavcampbell.bsky.social 📖 rosacampbell.eventbrite.co.uk 1/4

Book Launch: The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared

Come and meet Shere Hite — the feminist hero whose notorious work revolutionized how we think about sex, marriage, and the female orgasm…

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In every academic book there is a secret second book hiding in the footnotes. Sometimes it is the first draft that had migrated there to escape the revisions. Sometimes it is the author's tortured secret rebuttal of their own claims, and sometimes it is the incipient form of the their next book.

I am heading to beautiful Edinburgh this week for three great free events. First up on Wednesday 13th at 7pm is a discussion, chaired by @hannahkateboast.bsky.social at the radical bookshop @lighthousebks.bsky.social. You can book here: 👇 lighthousebookshop.com/events/the-b...

I'm chairing the launch of @rosavcampbell.bsky.social's new book at @lighthousebks.bsky.social on Wed! Recommended to all interested in feminist politics, social history, and anyone who likes turning heads on public transport. Come along: lighthousebookshop.com/events/the-b...

Such a lovely review of my book by Rosita Sweetman in @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... 💋

The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared: Shere Hite and the Hite Report

Rosa Campbell’s compelling work does justice to a feminist warrior

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Absolutely amazing nuanced work about the role of oil companies in environmental activism.

History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · 3mo ago

"Many environmental organisations in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s were sponsored by companies, including oil companies." Paul Merchant uses oral history to examine the links between corporate sponsorship and environmental activism in 1980s and 1990s Britain.

fighting drought by harvesting energy. you love to see it

Tor "SolarFred" Valenza@torsolarfred.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Solar on canals reduces water evaporation by 70% and algae growth by 85% #energysky -- via pv magazine usa:

the Labour Party are just obsessed with losing. How else to make sense of political decisions like this?

Happy Australian pub day to my book! I love what @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social have done with ‘the book that taught the world to orgasm and then disappeared.’ 💋💗

This May Day, thinking of Australia’s longest labour dispute the Pilbara strike by First Nations pastoral and domestic workers for wages, dignity, justice and land. 1946-1949. As Bruce Thomas says in this vid “the old people said, we’ve got to run our own show” m.youtube.com/watch?v=1CM5...

The Pilbara Aboriginal Strike

YouTube video by Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM)

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IT WAS CALLED THE SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR AND THEY BROUGHT THE BOOKS TO THE SCHOOL AND SET IT UP LIKE A BOOKSTORE AND YOU COULD GET GOOSEBUMPS AND FEAR STREET BOOKS BUT ALSO MICHAEL JORDAN POSTERS AND NICKELODEON BOOKMARKS AND PENCILS THAT SMELLED LIKE CUPCAKES

My book launch was one of those nights where everything goes right! 💗

Lucy Delap@lucydelap.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A total delight to be at Libraria bookshop tonight in conversation with @rosavcampbell.bsky.social, celebrating her revolutionary Shere Hite feminography

As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

This Wednesday 29th I will launch my book at Libreria- the bookshop with the mirrored ceiling. I will be in conversation with the wonderful @lucydelap.bsky.social. I would love to see you or to meet you! There are a few tickets left and you can book here: libreria.io/shere-hite-a...

Shere Hite and the Politics of Pleasure

Join historian Rosa Campbell in conversation with Lucy Delap for a discussion of Shere Hite and the Politics of Pleasure, her influential work.

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