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...

This is happening TOMORROW! More info below 👇

Join us next week!

We are pleased to share the details for the Annual Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Their talk is titled 'Kin: transgender history with and beyond the human'. May 15, 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 (In person and Online) Register here 👇 ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...

'A substantial contribution... that can be applied to global justice, post-colonial, anti-racist, gendered and intersectional dimensions of transnational feminisms.' Read Angelika Schaser's review of Feminist Activism, Travel and Translation by Johanna Gehmacher here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this article, Yongku Cha shows how stories of positive emotional interaction between female lords and subordinate women in twelfth-century Flanders challenge traditional views of feudal society. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

We are pleased to share the details for the Annual Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Their talk is titled 'Kin: transgender history with and beyond the human'. May 15, 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 (In person and Online) Register here 👇 ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...

In this #OpenAccess article, William Bainbridge explores the gendered segregation of Victorian mountaineering, highlighting how women played a significant, yet deliberately overlooked, role in its history. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this article, Grace E. Coolidge uses a sample of eighty wills to explore the 'economies of death' which emerged in seventeenth-century Toledo, Spain and relied heavily on the resilience, economic activity and agency of women. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Wonderful to see @genderandhistory.bsky.social article 4 Special Issue ed. Rachel Jean-Baptiste, @writinghelena.bsky.social Lisa Hellman & me is now out!! 🌟Fab article by William Bainbridge on "Victorian Women and the Gendering of Mountaineering in the Alps" 🗻 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

In this #OpenAccess article, Indrani Chatterjee traces the career of women slaves in the nineteenth century household-state of Awadh, before considering how British official necropolitics has shaped the historiography of slavery until the present. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this #OpenAccess article, Kelly Ricciardi Colvin examines a wave of Orientalism-inspired food commercials on television in France between 1975 and 2000, using an intersectional lens to show how they reveal deeper anxieties in the French populace. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this #OpenAccess article, Tuğba Karaman analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, showing how reformers both redefined notions of femininity and masculinity and asserted control over them. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this #OpenAccess article, Aino Pihlak and Emily Cousens show how the Salmacis Society disrupted dominant antagonisms between ‘trans’ and ‘lesbian’ in the 1970s, offering a trans, sex-positive, lesbian femme-inism to help reanimate lesbian feminism today. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this Special Issue #OpenAccess article, Catherine Phipps examines segregation through the lens of gender, intimacy, race and colonial rule, focusing on how the French colonial state controlled 'mixed marriages' during the Second World War. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this #OpenAccess article, Tuğba Karaman analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, showing how reformers both redefined notions of femininity and masculinity and asserted control over them. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this #OpenAccess article, Aino Pihlak and Emily Cousens show how the Salmacis Society disrupted dominant antagonisms between ‘trans’ and ‘lesbian’ in the 1970s, offering a trans, sex-positive, lesbian femme-inism to help reanimate lesbian feminism today. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this Special Issue #OpenAccess article, Catherine Phipps examines segregation through the lens of gender, intimacy, race and colonial rule, focusing on how the French colonial state controlled 'mixed marriages' during the Second World War. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In our latest Special Issue article, Felicity M. Turner complicates historical ideas about gender and incarceration by positing that in nineteenth century North Carolina, segregation in carceral spaces by virtue of gender served to benefit some women. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this article, Dong Xiaoyan uses a pivotal text from Imperial China – often viewed as a quintessential example of patriarchal society – to explore how women's experiences were represented yet also how they shaped their identities through everyday practices. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this #OpenAcess article, Mariela Fargas Peñarrochas explores a case of disinheritance in eighteenth-century Barcelona, shedding light on how women self-affirmed and became agents of their own lives. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this review, Margaret Mishra describes ‘Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific, 1880–1920’ by Kate Stevens as an ‘archival powerhouse’ of research on gender, violence, colonialism and law. Read the full review here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this article, Katariina Parhi analyses the information produced about vagrant women by correctional labour facilities in metropolitan Finland between 1942 and 1947, showing how work offered an opportunity for these women to escape their vagrant status. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this #OpenAccess article, Shira Pinhas explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine, revealing its unequal adoption and the hazards its use entailed amongst Arab and Jewish women. Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

In this #OpenAccess article, Taejin Hwang explores how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU) forged international leftist women's solidarity during the period from 1945 to 1949, and in turn shifted the core tenets of transnational feminism. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this article, Margaret Mishra examines testimonies of two indentured Indian women sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of Fiji for murdering their husbands in 1897 and 1905 to draw out the intricate relationship between gender, ethnicity and law. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this #OpenAccess article, Ella Rossman explores post-Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, showing how various texts both conveyed an exclusionary ideology of girlhood alongside visions of female excellence and female defiance. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

In this article, Margaret Mishra examines testimonies of two indentured Indian women sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of Fiji for murdering their husbands in 1897 and 1905 to draw out the intricate relationship between gender, ethnicity and law. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...