“The Age of Youth in Argentina”: an interview with Valeria Manzano

By Mir Yarfitz Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, Latin American Sexualities 0 comments

How young people in Argentina asserted a new collective identity in the 1950s, ‘60s, and ‘70s.

Race, Class, and Sex Education in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa

By Sarah Emily Duff African Sexualities, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

The purpose of sex education for most of the century was conservative.

Shirley Temple: The Unwitting Coquette

By Jen Baker Childhood and Youth 5 comments

Hers is a childhood constructed out of our nostalgic desires.

"A filthy bruitish offence": Child sex abuse and the law in C17th England

By Jen Baker Childhood and Youth, Early Modern, Sexual Violence 8 comments

Between 1674 and 1913 there are at least 570 documented Old Bailey cases involving adults accused of sexual relations with children.