Teaching Gender - The British University and the Rise of Heterosexuality, 18601939

About the author

Samuel Rutherford is Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History / History of Sexuality at the University of Glasgow. He received his PhD in History from Columbia University in 2020. In 2020-24, he was a Junior Research Fellow at first Merton College and then Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Summary

Drawing on the archives of ten colleges and universities across Britain (from 1860-1939), this book offers a new explanation for how British higher education became coeducational, arguing that gender-integrated universities played an important role in making the hetero/homo binary foundational to middle-class life in the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Rutherford, Samuel (Lecturer in Lgbtq+ History / H Rutherford, Samuel (Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History / History of Sexuality Rutherford
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9780198937494
• ISBN: 978-0-19-893749-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Cultural Studies, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), British & Irish history, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Social and cultural history, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Gender studies, gender groups, Gay & Lesbian studies, Higher education, tertiary education, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / General, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics