Youth, Gender and Sexuality Research Group

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Youth, Gender and Sexuality’s research explores the cultural meaning attached to youth, gender and sexuality throughout history - from antiquity to the contemporary period.

The group has particular expertise in the ancient Mediterranean and North Africa, early modern France, the 19th-century United States, modern Britain and 20th-century Germany.

It seeks out voices often overlooked or under-represented in mainstream history, including:

• children
• adolescents
• women
• the non-binary gendered
• queer people

Members examine how some cultures and groups have shaped unique identities in the time and place they lived - making their voices and concerns a point of historical interest in their own right.

Their approach is interdisciplinary, bringing together multiple perspectives to consider different cultural contexts and the ways in which particular social, political and religious groups were treated and how individuals within them held agency.

The Group works in partnership with other academic groups and heritage organisations to conduct research.

As well as conducting innovative projects, members also supervise a diverse range of research by postgraduate students.

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