Ben Mechen

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Gender, Sex and Sexuality in 20th-Century British History: Some new directions

By Ben Mechen April 28, 2014 Dispatches, United Kingdom 1 comment

Ben Mechen and Kevin Guyan On Tuesday 8th April 2014, thirteen speakers and twenty delegates, from PhD students to professors, gathered for a one-day symposium at University College London called ‘New Directions: Gender, Sex and Sexuality in 20th Century British History‘. Across twelve papers and one keynote address, tackling everything […]

Ageing and the history of sexuality

By Ben Mechen January 29, 2014 History of Sexuality 5 comments

Ben Mechen Reading Lynne Segal’s recent book on growing old, Out of time: the pleasures and the perils of ageing (2013), has got me thinking about the place (or possibly absence) of old age, as an analytic category, in both my own research and the history of sexuality more generally. […]