Gender through the ages: growing up and growing old

The experience of gender in various historical contexts was punctuated by life cycle stages and age-specific experiences. From childhood and education to marriage, old age and death, studying the lives of men and women at different ages reveals much about the way that gender identities were constructed. The aim of this conference is to bring together historians researching gender across chronological and geographical boundaries to explore the ways in which it interacted with and was defined by age. The themes of the conference will also consider how life cycle stages influenced work, family, love and sex, perceptions of the body and the formation of identity.

Keynote speaker: Prof. Lynn Abrams, University of Glasgow

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Registration is free thanks to funding from History Workshop Journal, the Economic History Society and The University of Nottingham Department of History. To register your interest in attending the event please complete this form and email to Emma Lautman.