Sex and Sexuality

This theme - previously focused on histories of sex and sexuality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa and led by Sarah Emily Duff and Catherine Burns - has now been taken up by Nolwazi Mkhwanazi, recently a recipient of a Wellcome Seed Award for a new partnership with Eh!Woza to explore young people's perceptions of sex and sexuality in Johannesburg. Please see the WellSexuality website for more information and to watch short films made by young people in Johannesburg through our workshops in March 2018.

For some of our previous work in this area, please see below:

• A podcast of two papers presented by Sarah Emily Duff and Catherine Burns at the Institute of Historical Research's History of Sexuality Seminar in May 2014.
• A seminar paper on Sarah Emily Duff's work on sex education in South Africa during the early twentieth century.
• Sarah Emily Duff writes about sex education in South Africa in the 1920s and 1930s for The Conversation.
• Catherine Burns on recent efforts to compel female medical students to use contraceptive implants.