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

Growing Up Queer: Kids and the Remaking of LGBTQ Identity

By Mary Robertson 20th and 21st Century United States, Author Interviews, Childhood and Youth, LGBTQ

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

Dance! Dance! Dance!: Youth Culture and Courtship at Queen’s University, 1910-1930

By Renata Colwell Canada

What can a conflict over dancing at Queen’s University tell us about sexual mores in early-twentieth-century Ontario?

American Child Brides and the Dangers of Underage Sex

By Nicholas Syrett Childhood and Youth

Revisiting an earlier generation of reformers exposes that marriage was not a magical cure-all.

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

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

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

Sex and the Single Man in Late Medieval England

By Rachel Moss Medieval

What constituted socially-acceptable premarital sex for young men in the late middle ages?