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HomeNewsHow Sex Shaped a Nation
How sex shaped a nation
Monday 13 August 2012

The School of History's Frank Bongiorno recently released book 'The Sex Lives of Australians, A History' has received a glowing review in the Canberra Times.  

The book documents the role sexuality has played in building Australia's identity from the days of the early Australian colony, where women were few, through the changing mores of Victorian society, to the evolving gender roles of the two World Wars and the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

Read the Canberra Times review of  Frank Bongiorno's The Sex Lives of Australians, A History