Check what's between the sheets at the @cornellupress.bsky.social book page - praise for her bright, beautiful, and important book, interviews with @hannahfrydman.bsky.social about book-building, and details on ordering your *medal-winning* copy: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... (2/2)

Great news, #SkyStorians! The IPPY Awards have given @hannahfrydman.bsky.social a Bronze medal for "Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France"! See the full cool list of cool medalists here: ippyawards.com/blog/2026-me... (1/2) Then...

2026 Medalists - General Categories | IPPY Book Awards

Congratulations and sincere thanks to the independent authors and publishers who participated in our 2026 Independent Publisher Book Awards contest. Here are the medalists in each of our categories.

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Shamelessly getting back on the social media to say that my imperial history of military medicine is imminently about to be published: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Disabled Empire

Explores the minute interactions between military servicemen and medical caregivers during World War I to tell a broader story about race, colonialism, labor, and global health.  Disabled Empire exami...

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Discover how queer studies, book history, and visual culture intersect in this fascinating essay collection, and how a variety of media have helped shape queer community – from zines, to romance novels, to social media. Order your copy today: bit.ly/4kvJE00 University of Pennsylvania #BookHistory

happy publication day to *The Future That Was* out today from @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

The Future That Was

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

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join us in Providence on March 6th for Limits of Legibility: History under Siege — a colloquium featuring Joan Wallach Scott, Omnia El Shakry, Gary Wilder, and Korey Williams: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...

THE MUNBY FELLOWSHIP IS NOW 12 MONTHS!!!! If you're thinking about applying, do it. As well as the blissful research time and independence to explore unparalleled collections across Cambridge, you get supportive mentorship, great colleagues and a college environment to boot. I loved it.

Samuel Moore@samuelmoore.org · 7mo ago

Apply to be the 2026-7 Munby Fellow in bibliography and history of the book @theul.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPZ688/m...

Merry Christmas! My state of the field essay on the history of sexuality in Modern France was published in open access yesterday by @frenchhistory.bsky.social. Check it out at academic.oup.com/fh/advance-a...

Review article: the history of sexuality in modern France

Sometimes, when I explain that my research expertise lies in the history of sexuality in modern France, the follow-up is some version of a question: ‘so I

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It was very fun to grapple with a source that I've found challenging to interpret (Thanks for all your help with this, @rpanchasi.bsky.social)!

Journal of the Western Society for French History (JWSFH)@jwsfh.bsky.social · 8mo ago

7. NOTES ON SOURCES: "The Vice Squad and the Fortune Teller," by @hannahfrydman.bsky.social, on the perception of mediums & fortune-tellers as agents of vice in a 1931 French police report examining classified advertisements in the Parisian press. journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article...

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing. The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j... Athens GA and online

Farquad mafia

roxanne panchasi@rpanchasi.bsky.social · 10mo ago

a neighbour saw me carrying my regalia for fall convocation and asked me if it was a lord farquaad costume for halloween fml

🚨 New article! I'm excited to share “The sodomy consultant of Paris, 1688–1737,” published this week in French Historical Studies: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo... . A 🧵:

If you’re near @harvard.edu this afternoon, join us for a discussion of @hannahfrydman.bsky.social’s fabulous new book, in conversation with yours truly. ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/...

Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press…

Join us for a discussion of Hannah Frydman's recently published book Between the Sheets (Cornell University Press, 2025) with CES Resident Faculty Mary D.…

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Please join us on Friday to hear @hannahfrydman.bsky.social speak with Raisa Rexer about her brilliant new book, Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France!!! 🔥🔥🔥

If you’re in the Boston area this Wednesday I’d love for you to come on out! This talk is free and open to the public. as.tufts.edu/art-architec...

The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️‍🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!! Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

Amanda Wyatt! Visconti@literaturegeek.bsky.social · 12mo ago

"Queer Book History" zine is done (32 pages!), just getting final team edits pre-pub. Built on upcoming @sharpnews.bsky.social Queer Book History Bibliography—100s of resources by team led by SHARP Bibliographer @bibliowingate.bsky.social. Zine=fave reads, teaching examples, community+conf info +

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

AGAINST AI

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"As sex worker, queer, and, more recently, abortion activists continue to remind us, the rights infringements oppressed communities are experiencing [on the internet] will not stop on the margins." www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/media-sex-fr...

Media, Sex, and Freedom: A Fraught History

Hannah Frydman, author of Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France, discusses the history of sexual advertising.

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Hannah Frydman, author of BETWEEN THE SHEETS, discusses the history of sexual #advertising and the modern ways we see #media and #FreeSpeech grapple with sexual content. @hannahfrydman.bsky.social Now on the #SageHouseBlog: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/media-sex-fr...

Media, Sex, and Freedom: A Fraught History

Hannah Frydman, author of Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France, discusses the history of sexual advertising.

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If you read "Between the Sheets," I wouldn't recommend starting with page 99, but, if you do, this blog post might help! page99test.blogspot.com/2025/08/hann... @cornellupress.bsky.social @bethanywasik.bsky.social

Hannah Frydman's "Between the Sheets"

Hannah Frydman is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures (French) at Harvard University. She applied the “ Page 99 Test ” ...

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"'Between the Sheets' reveals a space, hidden in plain sight in Third Republican Paris, where deviant sexualities and lives could be experimented with and financed... That space was the newspaper..." - @hannahfrydman.bsky.social www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/media-histor...

Media and the History of Sexual Advertising in Between the Sheets

Hannah Frydman, author of Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France, discusses the history of sexual advertising.

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Be sure to read this new review of FIVE recent books on Algerian History (@tgpeterson.bsky.social, @elisefranklin.bsky.social, Sara Rahnama, Elizabeth Perego, and Susan Slyomovics) by @anaisfaurt.bsky.social in Contemporary European History! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It's pub day for Between the Sheets! So excited for this book to be officially out in the world. Looking forward to getting the chance to talk about it over the coming months! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

BETWEEN THE SHEETS by @hannahfrydman.bsky.social reveals a space where deviant sexualities + lives could be experimented with and financed, despite attempts at norming the population through the heterosexual family. #NewBooks #CornellUniversityPress www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Between the Sheets by Hannah Frydman | Hardcover | Cornell University Press

Between the Sheets reveals a space, hidden in plain sight in Third Republican Paris, where deviant sexualities and lives could be experimented with and financed, despite republican attempts at growing...

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My book, among many others, is currently at 50% off on @cornellupress.bsky.social website with the code 095000. Don’t miss out!

Looks like my book is in this @cornellupress.bsky.social sale! Want to know how a wildly unpopular king trumped up an attack on a Muslim country to justify suspending the rule of law at home? But then ended up getting overthrown himself? This is the book for you 🗃️

Cornell University Press@cornellupress.bsky.social · last yr.

Unlock a world of knowledge. Use code 095000 to take 50% off all books in print* today through Friday, June 27th. Don’t miss out on this opportunity! See all books: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/books/ * US orders only. Excludes Leuven UP. Not applicable for pre-order books.

@hannahfrydman.bsky.social looks at the “infinite archive” and its search capability in “In Defense of the Search Bar,” and demonstrates how the “anarchy of the mass digitization and its search bar” can push researchers to “think outside of long-established classifications.” #AHR 🗃️

In Defense of the Search Bar

Mass digitized archival databases are anarchic, rhizomatic places. The search bar makes them this way. This is not to say that large-scale digital librarie

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Really excited that my "In Defense of the Search Bar," which argues that keyword search allows us to queer the archive and how we see the past, is out now in the #AHR! doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...

In Defense of the Search Bar

Mass digitized archival databases are anarchic, rhizomatic places. The search bar makes them this way. This is not to say that large-scale digital librarie

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American Historical Association@historians.org · last yr.

Check out the June 2025 issue of the #AHR. Featuring articles on opium, terminology for slavery, and counterrevolution, and includes contributions on the concept of “Big Asia,” digital searchability, and using archival databases in the classroom. 🗃️

I wrote for @ca.theconversation.com re: the 30th anniversary (this Fri) of President Jacques Chirac's June 13th, 1995 announcement that France would be resuming nuclear testing in the Pacific. 210 detonations in Algeria & Mā'ohi Nui (French Polynesia) from 1960-1996. Thousands of victims.

France’s final nuclear tests in the South Pacific, 30 years on

Three decades after France’s last nuclear tests, those living near the test sites still await compensation for the harms caused.

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