New article out by Jennifer Nelson and Steven Wuhs on the debate in Mexico 1990-2008 on abortion. It argues that pro-life advocates appropriated human rights arguments ('strategic secularism') to assert protections for the ‘unborn’. #Skystorians 🗃️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This sounds great! #histchild #skystorians royalhistsoc.org/calendar/gen...

New article by Gil Engelstein & @irisrach.bsky.social, 'From the Fields Into the Bars', on Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977). It analyses the circumstances enabling its publication & why Spotheim was unsuccessful in advocating for trans women. 🗃️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In outrageous, demoralizing times, to keep the scholarship of gender and history moving forward. "Australia's wool industry 1900-50; how the products and handling of wool waste are connected to gender, with some goods aligned to purity and others to pollution." #laborhistory

It was a pleasure reading Richard Quang-Anh Tran's fascinating Queer Vietnam: A History of Gender Transgression, 1920-1945 ( @stanfordpress.bsky.social ), my review is now up on @genderandhistory.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

CFP for a Special Issue of Gender & History on childhood and crises to be edited by Katie Barclay and Emily Ward. Abstracts due 31 May 2026; then hybrid workshop; full articles due 31 Jan. 2027. Please share widely. #Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistChild 🗃️

Fantastic sounding CfP for our next Special Issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social on "Childhood, Gender and Crises: Living at the End of the World" ed. @katieebarclay.bsky.social & Emily Ward!! Abstracts due 31 May 2026, hybrid workshop, then full articles due 31 January 2027. Please do share!! 🌟📄

New #OpenAccess article by Lorinda Cramer on Australia's wool industry 1900-50. It explores how the products and handling of wool waste are connected to gender: the work and the use, with some goods aligned to purity and others to pollution. 🗃️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/DAUK7S...

Check out this article by two wonderful scholars working on representations of the pregnant body --

One for the #HistMed crowd. Great #OpenAccess article with 15 colour images.

New article by Margaret Carlyle & Marcia Nichols on early 19thC anatomical flap books. It argues that their resurgence both signalled the stabilization of men's authority in childbirth and fuelled concerns around their tactile engagement with the female body. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Second, we have an article by Carolin Kosuch which explores the history of cremation in the long 19thC, shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way. It takes a transnational approach. #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Happy New Year! We have two new articles on the website. First, an article by Joanne Meyerowitz, which uses the long career of Janice Raymond to trace a genealogy of radical feminism and its longstanding associations with conservative anti-gender movements. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Happy New Year! We have two new articles on the website. First, an article by Joanne Meyerowitz, which uses the long career of Janice Raymond to trace a genealogy of radical feminism and its longstanding associations with conservative anti-gender movements. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

We are pleased to say that our latest Special Issue, titled Gender and Segregation, is out! This Special Issue explores the ways in which a gendered analysis illuminates histories of segregation. Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...

Thanks to @djrgrey.bsky.social for this @genderandhistory.bsky.social special issue! My article is on visa bans for mixed couples in Morocco, but check out @emmakale.bsky.social on Mughal harems and @emilyncock.bsky.social on disabled convicts in Australia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...

Our Special Issue @genderandhistory.bsky.social is now out!! Many congrats and thanks to stellar co-editors @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman & Rachel Jean-Baptiste, and to all our fabulous authors. Fab seeing all 140,000 words brought together! 🌟 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...

The full @genderandhistory.bsky.social issue is now out, packed with fascinating studies from late antique Rome to 2000s Tanzania. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...

Latest article in the imminent @genderandhistory.bsky.social SI ed. @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and myself now out! Rob Heffron on Christianity & women's segregation in Rome and Constantinople (300–600 CE)📄https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0424.70015

In this #OpenAccess article, Jordi Mas Grau and Rafael Cáceres-Feria examine case files relating to convictions of homosexuality in Barcelona, revealing a bias in Francoist justice yet also spheres of homosexual sociability transgressing dominant moral norms. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Wonderful to see latest in Special Issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social edited @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and me out! Christina Thomas on educator Geraldine Wilson: "A Black Girl's Coming of Age in Jim Crow Philadelphia, Pennsylvania" 🌟 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

We are very pleased to announce that “Trans Misogyny in the Colonial Archive" by Jamey Jesperson was selected for the 2025 Jensen-Miller Award for best article on women and gender in the North American West from the Western History Association!

Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Lisa Hellman, @writinghelena.bsky.social and I are delighted to see Husseina Dinani's @genderandhistory.bsky.social article out investigating Ithna Asheri girls experiences of school in Dar es Salaam c.1980s-2000s🌟 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

And also Early View from @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste & my Special Issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social, Meghan Healy-Clancy explores the life of South African activist Bertha Mkhize (1889–1981) doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Next 2 articles are now out on Early View from @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste & my Special Issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social! Febe Pamonag writes on a public education campaign about leprosy in the U.S- occupied Philippines during 1920s doi.org/10.1111/1468...

A taster of our special issue on gender and segregation, due out in a few weeks. Thank you also to @dependencybonn.de for funding the conference during which many of these ideas were first discussed.

Critical introduction to forthcoming "Gender & Segregation" special issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social by Lisa Hellman, @writinghelena.bsky.social, Rachel Jean-Baptiste & me is now out and #OpenAccess! Issue itself to follow shortly... 🌟 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In this #SpecialIssue article, Mary Sanderson explores the use of sodomy accusations in satires featuring William Pitt the Younger between 1784 and 1790, showing how they reflected concerns about the malleability of race, sexuality and gender. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Delighted that latest article from forthcoming Special Issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social is now available, co-edited by @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste & me! Elisabetta Iob explores purdah & resistance in 1950s Pakistan 🌟 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Congratulations and good luck to the new editorial team of @genderandhistory.bsky.social! It's been an honour editing the journal with my Sheffield colleagues and pals for the last five years, and I am looking forward to seeing it thrive at Edinburgh!

Congratulations to Emma, my wonderful colleage @dependencybonn.de ! The full @genderandhistory.bsky.social SI on Gender & Segregation will be published later this year, with 13 terrific articles and a substantial introduction by Lisa Hellmann, @djrgrey.bsky.social, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and myself.

The leading international journal ‘Gender & History’ (@genderandhistory.bsky.social) has moved to the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, edin.ac/46z9jy5 #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #Gender

Very excited latest 📄 in special issue @genderandhistory.bsky.social ed. by @writinghelena.bsky.social l; Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and me is out, and #openaccess! 🌟 Emma Kalb investigates "A Harem in Disorder: Narrating Elite Female Seclusion in Late Mughal Delhi" doi.org/10.1111/1468...

We are delighted to announce that Gender & History now has a new home at the University of Edinburgh. With thanks to the Sheffield team who did a stellar job for the last five years. hca.ed.ac.uk/gender-histo... #Skystorians #GenderHistory @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

Delighted to see the latest article in special issue @genderandhistory.bsky.social ed. [email protected]; Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and me out! 🌟 Greg Downs investigates the experiences of Black rural working women at elections in South Carolina 1874-1895 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Marinella Marmo and I published this article back in 2011 for @genderandhistory.bsky.social on the practice of 'virginity testing' by UK border officials and the experiences of South Asian migrant women in the 1970s. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Fascinating new #OpenAccess article by Insa Nolte in @genderandhistory.bsky.social : "Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa" 🌟https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0424.12864

Latest of @genderandhistory.bsky.social special issue on Gender & Segregation - ed. @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman & Rachel Jean-Baptiste & myself - is now out! Jens Carlesson Magalhães examines the case of the only Jewish girls' school in 19th Century Sweden 🌟 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this #OpenAccess article, Ivana Arsić explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas and Moriscas in navigating adversity and reveals the role of gender and female authority in shaping religious identities in premodern Mediterranean society. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this #SpecialIssue article, Jens Carlesson Magalhães analyses the only Jewish girls’ school in nineteenth-century Sweden, Sophiaskolan, and discussions about girls’ education and Bildung within that community including about Judaism's ‘Oriental heritage’ Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this #SpecialIssue article, Emily Cock assesses the gendered experiences of disability and segregation among prisoners in colonial (1830s) New South Wales, showing how the convict system accommodated individuals with a wide range of impairments. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this #OpenAccess article, Insa Nolte draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to explore how marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba-speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

'... supported by deep archival work, and… an admirable willingness to speculate when the evidence is fragmentary.' Read Tristan G. Brown's review of The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories From Late Imperial China by Matthew H. Sommer, here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this #OpenAccess article, Kersti Lust and Andreas Kalkun explore how illegitimacy was stigmatised and reduced the marriage prospects of both single mothers and their daughters in nineteenth-century Estonia. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this review, Nina Neuscheler describes 'The Intimate Life of Computers' by Reem Hilu as a 'well-researched and very accessible account to learn about computers in the domestic sphere'. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Today!

In this #OpenAccess article, Antara Datta and Jinal Parekh use two critical moments in British immigration to trace how the female dependant became the focus of discriminatory bordering practices and her body an evidentiary source in the immigration system. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this article, Sofia Zepeda explores the contradictory, complex ways in which British and Irish sailors and the state framed naval service between 1793–1815 and adopted a shared language of patriarchy. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

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