Women, Gender, and Sexuality

A research group which explores society's construction of gender across historical periods and global geographies.

Women gender and society research group

Women, Gender, and Sexuality

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The Women, Gender, and Sexuality group applies comparative and transnational methods and approaches to historical constructions of gender as they were shaped by the experiences of both women and men.

We research family, kinship and population and encompasses scholarship from the perspectives of gender, sexuality, race, class and culture. Women, Gender and Sexuality has particular interests in Britain and America, the broader problem of the legal construction of gender, and the history of masculinity.

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The cover of Laura King living with the dead. A photograph of a women in the 1920s wearing a beret and holding a bicycle, against an image of a wooden background.

Living with the Dead: Memories, Histories, and the Stories Families Tell in…

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Masculinity in Byzantium, c. 1000-1200: Scholars, Clerics and Violence is…

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The School was pleased to celebrate Professor Kate Dossett's inaugural…

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Multilingualism in the Novel

Dr Maroula Perisanidi and Professor Claire Eldridge have both recently been…

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Professor Jane Hamlett presents the School of History's Katrina Honeyman Memorial Lecture.

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Join Professor Laura King at the launch of her new book.

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Researching families’ histories is a simultaneously tricky and rewarding business.

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