Much of my research focuses on the connections between sexuality, gender and identity and draws on sociological and historical approaches.
I am also researching the interconnections between male homosexuality, imprisonment and psychology in New Zealand during the twentieth century and I am writing a series of journal articles that explore the history, meaning and politics of same-sex marriage and its wider social context.
Brickell, C., & Collard, J. (Eds.). (2019).
Queer objects. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 416p.
Edited Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2017).
Teenagers: The rise of youth culture in New Zealand. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 384p.
Authored Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2008).
Mates & lovers: A history of gay New Zealand. Auckland, New Zealand: Random House, 430p.
Authored Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2020). Josie and Florence: A same-sex marriage at the turn of the twentieth century.
New Zealand Journal of History,
54(1), 29-48.
Journal - Research Article
Brickell, C. (2020). A short history of same-sex marriage in New Zealand.
Sexualities,
23(8), 1417-1433.
doi: 10.1177/1363460720902713
Journal - Research Article
Brickell, C. (2017).
Teenagers: The rise of youth culture in New Zealand. Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press, 384p.
Authored Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2013).
Southern men: Gay lives in pictures. Dunedin, New Zealand: Genre Books, 227p.
Authored Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2012).
Manly affections: The photographs of Robert Gant, 1885-1915. Dunedin, New Zealand: Genre Books, 207p.
Authored Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2008).
Mates & lovers: A history of gay New Zealand. Auckland, New Zealand: Random House, 430p.
Authored Book - Research
Brickell, C., & Collard, J. (Eds.). (2019).
Queer objects. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press, 416p.
Edited Book - Research
Brickell, C., & Collard, J. (2019). The queerness of objects. In C. Brickell & J. Collard (Eds.),
Queer objects. (pp. 11-21). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2018). Historical research: Pulling together a history of New Zealand's teenagers. In M. Tolich & C. Davidson (Eds.),
Social science research in New Zealand: An introduction. (pp. 259-268). Auckland, New Zealand: Auckland University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2018). Maritime masculinities. In F. Steel (Ed.),
New Zealand and the sea: Historical perspectives. (pp. 216-229). Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams.
doi: 10.7810/9780947518707
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2017). Theorising power online. In E. Martellozzo & E. A. Jane (Eds.),
Cybercrime and its victims. (pp. 43-59). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2015). 'Badness personified': Nola Pratt's photograph album. In A. Cooper, L. Paterson & A. Wanhalla (Eds.),
The lives of colonial objects. (pp. 262-267). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2015). Sex, symbolic interactionism, and social constructionism. In T. S. Weinberg & S. Newmahr (Eds.),
Selves, symbols, and sexualities: An interactionist anthology. (pp. 5-16). Los Angeles, CA: SAGE.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2013). Men together: Intimacy and eroticism in pre-World War I New Zealand. In G. Willett & Y. Smaal (Eds.),
Intimacy, violence and activism: Gay and lesbian perspectives on Australasian history and society. (pp. 1-24). Melbourne, Australia: Monash University.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2012). Moral panic or critical mass? The queer contradictions of 1950s New Zealand. In H. Bauer & M. Cook (Eds.),
Queer 1950s: Rethinking sexuality in the postwar years. (pp. 94-114). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2011). At the borders of colonial masculinity: Robert Gant's photographs of men together. In A. Wanhalla & E. Wolf (Eds.),
Early New Zealand photography: Images and essays. (pp. 66-71). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago University Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2010). Nouvelle-Zélande: Jeunesse et homosexualité dans l'immèdiat après-guerre. In V. Blanchard, R. Revenin & J.-J. Yvorel (Eds.),
Les jeunes et la sexualité: Initiations, interdits, identités (XXIe-XXIe siècle). (pp. 352-362). Paris: Autrement.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2009). Sexuality, morality and society. In G. Byrnes (Ed.),
The new Oxford history of New Zealand. (pp. 465-486). Melbourne, Australia: Oxford University Press.
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Brickell, C. (2005). The emergence of a gay identity. In A. Kirkman & P. Maloney (Eds.),
Sexuality down under: Social and historical perspectives. (pp. 63-78). Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago Press.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2005). The transformation of heterosexism and its paradoxes. In C. Ingraham (Ed.),
Thinking straight: The power, the promise, and the paradox of heterosexuality. (1 ed.) (pp. 85-107). New York: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Brickell, C. (2020). A short history of same-sex marriage in New Zealand.
Sexualities,
23(8), 1417-1433.
doi: 10.1177/1363460720902713
Journal - Research Article
Brickell, C. (2020). Josie and Florence: A same-sex marriage at the turn of the twentieth century.
New Zealand Journal of History,
54(1), 29-48.
Journal - Research Article
Brickell, C. (2019). Transport cultures and young people’s histories in New Zealand, 1880–1950.
Journal of Historical Geography,
63, 2-11.
doi: 10.1016/j.jhg.2018.08.002
Journal - Research Article
Brickell, C., & Gilmour, F. (2019). The dialectics of motherhood in 1950s New Zealand.
Journal of Family History,
44(4), 413-430.
doi: 10.1177/0363199019855107
Journal - Research Article
Bennett, J. E., & Brickell, C. (2018). Surveilling the mind and body: Medicalising and de-medicalising homosexuality in 1970s New Zealand.
Medical History,
62(2), 199-216.
doi: 10.1017/mdh.2018.4
Journal - Research Article
Brickell, C. (2018). Unpublished post-war writing and emergent gay cultures.
Journal of New Zealand Studies,
26, 18-33.
doi: 10.26686/jnzs.v0iNS26.4839
Journal - Research Article
Brickell, C., Gorman-Murray, A., & de Jong, A. (2018). Queer trans-Tasman mobility, then and now.
Australian Geographer,
49(1), 167-184.
doi: 10.1080/00049182.2017.1345294
Journal - Research Article