Teenagers: The Rise of Youth Culture in New Zealand

By Chris Brickell Antipodean sexualities, Author Interviews

New Zealand’s teenagers embraced romantic and sexual possibilities, and their lives tell of wider social attitudes to morality and respectability

The Female World of Love and Larceny

By Alana Piper Antipodean sexualities

Australia’s female prostitute-pickpockets forged strong criminal networks and emotional bonds between the 1860s and the 1920s.

Gender, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Pacific

By Emily Manktelow Antipodean sexualities, Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, Sexual Violence

A microhistory of a child sexual abuse case in the South Seas Mission of the London Missionary Society.

‘The first lessons on sex are taught without words’: Sex Education in New Zealand

By Claire Gooder Antipodean sexualities, Childhood and Youth

New Zealand used pictures to tell 20th-century teens compelling stories about ideal sex and intimacy.

‘Deviant and over-sexed’ or ‘respectful and vanilla’: Intimate stories from Australian Lesbians

By Rebecca Jennings Antipodean sexualities, LGBTQ

Oral histories with Australian lesbians demonstrate a complex mix of intimate practices and behaviours.

Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific

By Yorick Smaal Antipodean sexualities, Author Interviews, LGBTQ

Queer Identities in Australia in the Second World War.

Digital Witnesses: The Parker-Hulme Murder Case and the Teaching of Crime and Sexual Deviance

By Samantha Caslin Antipodean sexualities, Pedagogy

The Parker-Hulme murder gripped the town of Christchurch, New Zealand in the summer of 1954.