Women, Gender, and Sexuality
A research group which explores society's construction of gender across historical periods and global geographies.
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Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Our research
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.
Our expertise
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Charles Wallace India Trust Visiting Fellow 2026: Call for Applications
The School of History is delighted to invite applications for the Leeds -…
Friday 15 May 2026
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Welcome to Dr Priyanka Tripathi: Research spotlight
Dr Tripathi is the School of History's Charles Wallace India Trust visiting…
Thursday 6 February 2025
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Living with the Dead: Professor Laura King on her new book
Living with the Dead: Memories, Histories, and the Stories Families Tell in…
Thursday 30 January 2025
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Masculinity in Byzantium: Dr Maroula Perisanidi on her new book
Masculinity in Byzantium, c. 1000-1200: Scholars, Clerics and Violence is…
Thursday 21 November 2024
More on Masculinity in Byzantium: Dr Maroula Perisanidi on her new bookLecture: Gender and Justice in the Archives of International Criminal Law
Professor Kirsten Campbell delivers the annual Katrina Honeyman Memorial Lecture in the School of History.
Thursday 21 May 2026, 17:30 - 19:00
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IMC 2025 will take place 06-09 July in a fully hybrid format from the University of Leeds campus.
Monday 6 July 2026 - Thursday 9 July 2026
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