Dr Sarah Toulalan

Senior Lecturer

Extension: 4455

Telephone: 01392 724455

My main area of research is in the history of the body, with particular interests in gender, sex, sexuality, ageing, body size, shape and management, health and medicine in early modern England. I am currently working on a project on 'Children and sex in early modern England: knowledge, consent, abuse c.1550-1750' generously funded by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. Earlier work on this project was funded by a British Academy Small Research Grant.

An edited collection (with Kate Fisher) has just been published by Palgrave, entiled Bodies, Sex and Desire from the Renaissance to the Present, including a chapter on ''Unripe' bodies: children and sex in early modern England'.

I am currently supervising doctoral theses on medical conceptions of sexual consent in Victorian England and cultural conceptions of cancer in early modern England.