Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937

By Ishita Pande Asian Sexualities, Childhood and Youth, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Sex, Law and the Politics of Age: Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937 is a microhistory of a law restraining child marriages passed in colonial India in 1929.

Growing Up Queer: Kids and the Remaking of LGBTQ Identity

By Mary Robertson 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

LGBTQ kids reveal what it’s like to be young and queer today.

Histories of the Transgender Child

By Jules Gill-Peterson Childhood and Youth, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Trans

Challenging the idea that today’s trans kids are a brand new generation.

Gender, Power and Sexual Abuse in the Pacific

By Emily Manktelow Antipodean sexualities, Childhood and Youth, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Sexual Violence

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

Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society

By Erin Abraham Childhood and Youth, Medieval, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality, Sexual Violence

Anticipating Sin in Medieval Society explores early medieval understandings of sin, looking in particular at childhood, sexuality and violence.

‘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.

Child Sexual Abuse? A View from England in the Later Middle Ages

By Alan Kissane Childhood and Youth, Medieval, Sexual Violence

Bringing sex offenders to justice was as challenging in the Middle Ages as it is today.