Changing attitudes to sex and gender

Even in the quite recent past, individuals who did not conform to conventional patterns of gendered behaviour or sexual orientation were regarded as freakish curiosities or dangerous deviants. Using a broad range of materials from the Wellcome Library, this Insights session demonstrates the gradual changes in medical and scientific understanding of sexual identity, the bringing about of changes in the law, and the development of more tolerant social attitudes.

Speaker: Dr Lesley Hall, Archivist, Wellcome Library

This event is FREE. Reserve 90 minutes before the start.

You can pick up your free ticket for this event from the Information Point from 13.30 on the day. Tickets are issued on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please put coats and bags in the cloakroom to the rear of the foyer before meeting your guide, on the third floor, ten minutes before the event begins.

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