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Gender & History is the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations.

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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In this OA article, Paige Donaghy argues that historians can take up the framework of ‘obstetric violence’ to study past iterations of this form of gender violence. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #SkyHistorians #GenderViolence #HistoryofMedicine
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Gender and Obstetric Violence in Britain, ca. 1750–1830
Obstetric violence is a form of gendered violence experienced by pregnant and birthing people, particularly women, during medical care provided in the hospital, clinic or home. Recent scholarship has...
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
In a new article, Veronika Faktorová and Václav Smyčka explore the complex processes that shaped the emergence and reception of women's literature in the Czech lands in the 1830s and 1840s. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #SkyHistorians #CzechLiterature #WomenWriters
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Between Self‐Empowerment and Appropriation: Negotiating Women's Writing in Prague During the Mid‐Nineteenth Century
The narrative of women's emancipation is dominated by the Western European perspective. But what was the situation in the Czech lands, a culturally heterogeneous region where German, Czech and Jewish....
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We are pleased to say that our October Issue is now out! This Issue includes 20 original articles, 16 #OpenAccess, and 9 book reviews. #Skystorians #GenderHistory Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...
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Gender & History: Vol 38, No 3
Gender & History is a global gender studies journal publishing research on femininity, masculinity and gender across eras and territories.
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Unfortunately this lecture has been cancelled. We will share news of the 2027 lecture in due course. #skyhistorians
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We are excited to announce our Annual Lecture 2026! Prof. Judith Evans-Grubbs (Emory University) "An Illegal and Dishonorable Deed": The Sale of Children by their Parents in the Roman Empire (200-600 CE) Wednesday, 21 October, 3:30 PM-5 PM (further details and links to come) #skyhistorians
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Gender & History Annual Lecture 2026
Professor Judith Evans-Grubbs (Emory University) will speak on the Sale of Children by their Parents in the Roman Empire (200-600 CE)
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This new OA article by Isobel Bloom examines Feminists for Life's rhetoric and activism on US college campuses in the 1990s, drawing attention to the diversity of opinion within the anti-abortion movement. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #SkyHistorians #USFeminism #CollegeAcitivism
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Political Recruitment and Pregnancy Resources: Anti‐Abortion Feminists Come to Campus, United States, 1990s
This article examines Feminists for Life's (FFL) rhetoric and activism on US college campuses in the 1990s as a case study into the complexities of organizing against abortion in a historical context...
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📚 Book review: Queer Vietnam: A History of Gender Transgression, 1920–1945, by Richard Quang-Anh Tran, reviewed by Giselle Bernard 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory
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Queer Vietnam: A History of Gender Transgression, 1920–1945
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
📚 Book review: Teaching Gender: The British University and the Rise of Heterosexuality, 1860–1939 by Samuel Rutherford, reviewed by Dominic Janes 🔗https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0424.70030 #BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory
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Teaching Gender: The British University and the Rise of Heterosexuality, 1860–1939
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
📚 Book review: Queer Lives Across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945–1970 by Andrea Rottmann, reviewed by Cynthia Sadler 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory
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Queer Lives Across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945–1970
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
📚 Book review: Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development From Nairobi by Sarah Bellows-Blakely, reviewed by Sacha Hepburn 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory
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Girl Power? A History of Girl‐Focused Development From Nairobi
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sarah Crook’s OA article examines ‘new feminism’ in 1990s Britain and its place within wider feminist conversations, political discourse and growing anxieties about masculinity, men and boys. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #SkyHistorians #BritishHistory #Feminism
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The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain
The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural ...
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Alexander Jin examines the cultural and intellectual history of Chinese “slave girls” in Progressive Era California, showing how they were positioned as racialized objects of rescue. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #SkyHistorians #CaliforniaHistory
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Trafficked and Rescued: Travails of the Chinese “Slave Girl” in Progressive Era California
This article examines the cultural and intellectual history of the Chinese “slave girl” in Progressive Era California. Joining a rich literature on how the movement of women across Europe and the Ame...
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Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I have a new article in @genderandhistory.bsky.social on efforts for forge a new, popular, mainstream and appealing feminism in the 1990s and its connections to the wider atmosphere of the moment. Read it here - doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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The Political Ecology of the ‘New’ Feminism in Late‐1990s Britain
The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural ...
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This article by Huong T.M. Ngo examines how the "triple burden" imposed on Vietnamese women--production, combat, care--was deeply unequal, but also built the skills that carried some from underground organising to the Paris Peace Talks. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #SkyHistorians #Vietnam
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From Combat to Diplomacy: Revolutionary Vietnamese Women and the Translation of Military Legitimacy Into Peace‐Building Authority, 1954–2007
This article examines how Vietnamese women converted wartime military legitimacy into sustained peace-building authority during and after the Vietnam War (1954–2007). It argues that the primary mecha...
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This new OA article by Eimeel Castillo shows how US-occupied Nicaragua built a legal apparatus to register and segregate prostitutes that barely worked--but it did entrench a femininity defined by modesty and sexual purity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #SkyHistorians #Prostitution
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“Women of the Happy Life”: Prostitution, Public Morality, and Venereal Disease in US‐Occupied Nicaragua, 1912–33
During the years of the US occupation (1912–33), Nicaragua's government legally regulated prostitution. Convinced of their objectives to protect society's moral and public health, politicians embarke...
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Angad Singh's new OA article discusses how accusations of kidnapping were tools families used to police women's sexuality during the 1947 Partition of India, questioning the violent narrative that feminist history has made central onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #SkyHistorians #IndiaHistory
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Partitioned Desires: Female Agency and Interfaith Relationships Around the Partition of India
Through an examination of the phenomenon of abduction, I suggest that the preoccupation with women's violation during the 1947 Partition of India has obfuscated a history of female desire. Considerin...
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📚 Book review: The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico by Martin Austin Nesvig, reviewed by Anderson Hagler 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory
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The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth‐Century Mexico
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📚 Book review: Not Just a Housewife: Women Strike for Peace and the Cold War Women's Peace Movement by Jon Coburn, reviewed by Amanda Westbrook Brennan 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory
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Not Just a Housewife: Women Strike for Peace and the Cold War Women's Peace Movement
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📚 Book review: Review of Appearance Politics: Legitimacy Building in Late Imperial and Modern China by Lex Lu, reviewed by Nicolas Schillinger 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory
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Review of Appearance Politics: Legitimacy Building in Late Imperial and Modern China
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Happy Labor Day weekend! There’s power in a union, & solidarity in my 292nd #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +
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#ScholarSunday Thread 292 (9/6/26) – Black and White and Read All Over
Happy Labor Day weekend! There’s power in a union, & solidarity in my 292nd #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add ...
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Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Congratulations to @lorrainegrimes.bsky.social on the review of her first book.
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Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@charmianmansell.bsky.social it’s such a great book!
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Christine Johnson @christinkallama.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The "Familienbuch" of Hieronymus Koeler and the letters of Philipp von Hutten are fascinating texts and, as I argue, very revealing of how conquest colonialism mattered for European masculinity (and how it didn't). #EarlyModern #Skystorians (if you would like a copy, let me know!)
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Alison Fong's OA article discusses what the 1956 Semenyih strip-search scandal reveals about how Chinese women in colonial Malaya navigated surveillance, humiliation, and coercion during the Malayan Emergency. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #SkyHistorians #ColonialHistory #ChineseMalaya
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Behind the Canvas Curtain: Gender, Visibility, and Spectacle in the 1956 Semenyih Incident in the Malayan Emergency
This article examines the 1956 Semenyih strip–search scandal in British colonial Malaya during the Malayan Emergency, a counterinsurgency campaign shaped by Cold War politics in Southeast Asia, to ex....
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In this OA article, Jamie Page analyses how ideas of manhood were used to make sense of the the 1489 ‘Waldmann Affair’ in Zurich, and places them within a larger story of the emerging Swiss Confederation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #SkyHistorians #Masculinity #SwissHistory
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All Gone to the Dogs: Peasant and Aristocratic Masculinities in a Late Medieval Swiss Revolt
This article examines chronicle accounts of the so-called ‘Waldmann Affair’, a revolt within the territories of the city–state of Zurich in 1489 directed against its mayor, Hans Waldmann. The revolt ...
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Christine R. Johnson uses two early sixteenth-century texts by German men about travel to Venezuela to show how conquest colonialism was connected to, but insufficient for, the achievement of honorable masculinity. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #Skyhistorians #LatinAmericanHistory
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There's No Place Like Home: Masculine Honor and the Conquest of Venezuela
The association between masculinity and European imperialism is well established. Two texts by German men about travel to Venezuela in the early sixteenth century show how conquest colonialism was co...
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
📚 Book review: Single Mothers in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Britain: Pregnancy, Migration and Institutionalization by Lorraine Grimes, reviewed by Sharon Crozier-De Rosa 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory
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Single Mothers in Twentieth‐Century Ireland and Britain: Pregnancy, Migration and Institutionalization
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
📚 Book review: Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule by Fang Yu Hu, reviewed by Sungyun Lim 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory
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Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls Under Japanese Rule. University of Washington Press, 2024. 304 pp. $35.00 (paperback). ISBN: 9780295752648
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Lauren Brown @laurencochrane.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My first journal article is officially out today in @genderandhistory.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉🎉 I discuss the visual representations of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency and their role in violence. Very pleased to see this out!
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‘Brave, Armed and Watchful’: Domestic Militarization and Contested Femininities During the Kenyan Emergency
This article examines the militarization of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency (1952–1960), analyzing how their armed participation disrupted and reconfigured colonial gender norms. Drawi...
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
How did the Kenya Emergency reshape colonial ideas of femininity? Lauren Brown's OA article examines the militarization of white settler women as both maternal guardians and armed participants in counterinsurgency violence. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #SkyHistorians #ColonialHistory
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‘Brave, Armed and Watchful’: Domestic Militarization and Contested Femininities During the Kenyan Emergency
This article examines the militarization of white settler women during the Kenya Emergency (1952–1960), analyzing how their armed participation disrupted and reconfigured colonial gender norms. Drawi...
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Micaela Pattison’s OA article explores how youth politics, left-wing activism and transnational debates on eugenics and sexuality shaped the teenage Hildegart’s distinctive, feminist politics on the eve of Spain’s Second Republic. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #SkyHistorians #SexualHistory
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The Timely Rise of a Teenage Reformer: Youth Revolt, Feminism and the Struggle for a ‘New Sexual Morality’ at the Dawn of the Spanish Second Republic
The contributions of propagandist and writer Hildegart (1914–1933) to Spanish cultural life are overshadowed by accounts of her unusual upbringing and violent death. This article examines the conditi...
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
What can a wheelchair pageant reveal about disability, womanhood, and citizenship? Moira Armstrong’s new OA article examines Miss Wheelchair America in the 1970s as a widely negotiated cultural and political space. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #SkyHistorians #DisabilityHistory
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“Lovelies on Wheels”: The Politics of Miss Wheelchair America, 1972–1977
This article examines the Miss Wheelchair America pageant in the 1970s as a cultural and political space that produced a specific message about the intersections of womanhood, disability, and citizen...
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
📚 Book review: Female Servants in Early Modern England, by Charmian Mansell, reviewed by Susan D. Amussen 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Recovering a forgotten voice in the history of lesbian visibility and activism in Ireland, this new OA article by Maurice J. Casey explores the writings of Lorna Gulston and her place in the ‘homophile’ generation of activists. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #SkyHistorians #IrishHistory
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The new school year is almost upon us, but summer isn’t quite done, & neither are the summer #ScholarSunday threads! Here’s my 290th of public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +
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#ScholarSunday Thread 290 (8/23/26) – Black and White and Read All Over
The new school year is almost upon us, but summer isn’t quite done, & neither are the summer #ScholarSunday threads! Here’s my 290th of public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthco...
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
📚 Book review: Recipes on the Move in Early Modern England and British North America: Domestic Medicine, Mobility, and Manuscript Culture by Hillary Nunn, reviewed by Sarah Peters Kernan 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
📚 Book review: Virtue That Matters: Chastity Culture and Social Power in Chosŏn Korea, 1392–1910 by Jungwon Kim, reviewed by Ksenia Chizhova 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory
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Virtue That Matters: Chastity Culture and Social Power in Chosŏn Korea, 1392–1910
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
What gets preserved and left out of Kerala’s cultural history? Benita Acca Benjamin examines classed and gendered assumptions shaping archival policies and the absence of women-oriented ‘Ma-periodicals’ in public archives. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #Skyhistorians #Archives #Kerala
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Gender and the Politics of Intellectualism: Archiving ‘Ma‐Periodicals’ in Kerala
The noetic and affective practices around ‘culturing’ the women of Kerala, South India, and the curation of their sensibilities according to hegemonic social codes, render it difficult to access vari...
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Guardian article draws on Philippa Carter's G&H article onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/UACYD4... #EarlyModern #Skystorians
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Work, Gender and Witchcraft in Early Modern England
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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 17/08/2026
My latest article — kindly shared and described here by Tom — exams a hitherto obscure bridging figure between the early 20th century Sapphic world and post 1968 queer activism in Ireland
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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is a brilliant (open access!) article by @mauricejcasey.com; it doesn’t just recover a pioneering yet forgotten lesbian activist but uses her story to critique the blind spots of Irish queer historiography more broadly. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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‘A Fairly Average “White Middle‐Class” Species of Lesbian’: Lorna Gulston, Ireland and the Early Anglophone Lesbian Press, 1965–1980
This article examines the published writings of Lorna Gulston (c. 1932–2023), a hitherto unknown Northern Irish civil servant who wrote many articles for the earliest British lesbian magazines such a...
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This OA article by Sameera Chauhan examines the British Army's military enterprise in colonial Punjab, and how constructs of race, class and sexuality undergirded the imperial politics regulating prostitution. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #SkyHistorians #BritishColonialHistory
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Syphilis and ‘Sons of Empire’: The ‘Prostitute’ and Britain's Fighting Arm in Nineteenth ̵ Century Colonial Punjab
The British army in India took great care to provide European troops with facilities for sexual relations while anxiously managing venereal disease. Examining archival evidence, political debates and...
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
How were women to find a place in courtrooms built for men? In our new OA article, Alecia Simmonds explores the spatial barriers behind women’s jury equality in Australia—and why full equality wasn't reached until 1997. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #Skyhistorians #Legalhistory
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Accommodating Women: Geographies of Citizenship in the Twentieth‐Century Campaign for Women's Jury Rights
Australian women were among the first in the world to receive electoral suffrage, yet it took until 1997 before they had full equality of jury suffrage. This article examines the debate around female....
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
📚 Book review: Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa's Anti-Apartheid Struggle: The Shadow of a Young Woman by Rachel E. Johnson, reviewed by Susanne M. Klausen 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory
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Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa's Anti‐Apartheid Struggle: The Shadow of a Young Woman
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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#earlymodern #bookhistory Workshop Call for Papers: Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade, University of Edinburgh 6-7 May 2027 Please feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!
Call for Papers
Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade
University of Edinburgh
6-7 May 2027Over the past two decades, women’s book history and feminist bibliography have exploded with renewed interest. Even so, women’s work is still to an extent seen as an exception or curiosity. It examines them from a gender history perspective, asking to what extent their relationships were influenced or determined by constructions of femininity. Proposals should therefore involve a dimension of gender analysis beyond simply the inclusion of female subjects. 

This conference will seek to explore (but is not limited to) to the following themes and questions:

*Gendered Networks. To what extent were professional book trade networks gendered? How did these networks intersect with other types of women’s networks, whether they be familial, friendly, religious, political, or intellectual?
*Identity and Representation. Did women express professional solidarity with other women, and how did this manifest? How did women’s self-representation in imprints and paratext differ from men’s?
 *Legal and Structural Considerations. In what ways were women’s professional networks dependent on legal structures of inheritance in their region, or participation in guilds? How did these networks stretch across economic and class divisions?
*Digital Approaches. Can digital humanities tools such as network visualisation effectively help document these relationships?

The conference will also host the launch of a new collaborative database sourcing biographical information about women in the early modern book trade.

Contributions will be published in a volume of conference proceedings, to be submitted by the end of 2027.

Proposals for papers of maximum 20 minutes, including title, an abstract of up to 300 words, and a biography of up to 150 words should be sent to Dr Elise Watson, elise.watson@ed.ac.uk, by 20 December 2026. While all papers will be delivered in person, virtual attendance will be available as well.
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Driving down to Virginia tomorrow, so it’s a special #ScholarSunday on a Saturday! Here’s my 288th thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books. Add more below, share widely please, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
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#ScholarSunday Thread 288 (On a Saturday, 8/8/26) – Black and White and Read All Over
Driving down to Virginia tomorrow, so it’s a special #ScholarSunday on a Saturday! Here’s my 288th thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books. Add more ...
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What if feminism was central to Singapore's anti-colonial movement? Yee-Ting Leong OA article traces the rise and suppression of the Singapore Women's Federation (1955). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #SkyHistorians #SingaporeHistory #GenderHistory
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Fleeting Feminism: The Singapore Women's Federation, Singapore Chinese Left‐Wing Feminism and Anti‐Colonial Nationalism, c. 1950s
In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for ...
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In this new OA article, Ali Hashemian asks us to rethink "hegemonic masculinity" in early 20th-century Iran beyond Western-Iranian and modern-traditional binaries. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #SkyHistorians #IranianHistory #Masculinities #GenderHistory
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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran
This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early-twentieth-century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radic...
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
📚 Book review: Queer Vietnam: A History of Gender Transgression, 1920–1945, by Richard Quang-Anh Tran, reviewed by Giselle Bernard 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory
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Queer Vietnam: A History of Gender Transgression, 1920–1945
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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
August is here, & with it my 287th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
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#ScholarSunday Thread 287 (8/2/26) – Black and White and Read All Over
August is here, & with it my 287th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely ...
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