The Rising Generation: Youth, Age and Protest in Post-War Britain

3 Credits

Explores important empirical and methodological questions about age, gender and sexuality, using a case study of post-war Britain. Considers the histories of "muted groups" such as children, adolescents, women and LGBT people, while thinking about how the language used about such groups is used to structure power relations in society. Engages with the ways conservatives and radicals used the language of age and life-stage to construct visions of the future, and how the experience of childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age changed in Britain between 1945 and 1979.