New Zealand’s teenagers embraced romantic and sexual possibilities, and their lives tell of wider social attitudes to morality and respectability
Antipodean sexualities
The Female World of Love and Larceny
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
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
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
Oral histories with Australian lesbians demonstrate a complex mix of intimate practices and behaviours.
Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific
Queer Identities in Australia in the Second World War.
Digital Witnesses: The Parker-Hulme Murder Case and the Teaching of Crime and Sexual Deviance
The Parker-Hulme murder gripped the town of Christchurch, New Zealand in the summer of 1954.
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