Explore 50 years of campaigning, organising and litigating around workplace gender equalities: www.genderequalitiesat50.ed.ac.uk#event-gender...

Oh, and my first academic article is now out with @genderandhistory.bsky.social! It’s on the gendered depiction of the eating disorder pica in 17th century medicine and theatre. No idea how to promote these things so any advice welcome.

New article by Stephen Bowd, drawing on letters by dozens of women in northern Italy around the 1st phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). It shows how military activity, female agency and dynastic identity were closely allied in their letters. #EarlyModern 🗃️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/S9XNMD...

And another #OpenAccess article: this one by @carissachew.bsky.social on South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance and why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo in colonial East Africa. #Skystorians #GenderHistory onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/JGRETZ...

New #OpenAccess article by @helenaaeberli.bsky.social on pica, a lesser-known eating disorder, and its gendered associations with pregnant women and pubescent girls in early modern England. #EarlyModern #Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistMed onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CYRU3R...

How does a generation's identity form — not at its peak, but in its decline? New article OA by Katharina Friege on the two Weimar-era German writers, Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner. #WeimarRepublic #NeueFrau #GermanHistory #WomensHistory #skyhistorians onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📚 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 #NairobiHistory #Girlhood #GenderHistory

13 book reviews published so far for 2026 📚 covering witchcraft in colonial Mexico, Cold War women's peace activism, queer Vietnam, anti-apartheid struggle, Korean chastity culture, and much more. Explore them all → onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468... #GenderHistory #bookreviews #historybooks

Our latest article by Amanda Zhang examines Chinese masculinities, popular travel narratives and the role of so-called 'Worn-Out Shoes (poxie)' — women perceived as clandestine prostitutes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #ChineseHistory #TravelWriting #Masculinity #Prostitution

It’s Flag Day, & let’s counter the dumpster fire at one of our most historic public sites with all the great public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books in my 280th #ScholarSunday thread! Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Thanks! Article available here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This new article by Evguenia Davidova argues that although nursing opened new job possibilities for women, the close cooperation between the state, military, and humanitarian philanthropy both reinforced traditional inequalities and manufactured new ones. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Another new OA article! Anna Cant examines the construction and performance of gender in 1970s Columbia via the Catholic non-governmental organisation Acción Cultural Popular (Popular Cultural Action) and its radio station “Radio Sutatenza.” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

One of our more recent OA articles now out! Lisa Surwillo and Martín Rodrigo Alharilla use the dual biographies of the enslaver Manuela Xiqués, from Cuba and Spain, to better understand the role of European and Creole women in the 19th-century Atlantic. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystorians

Two more week to submit your proposal for a special issue on gender, crisis and childhood! #childhood #gender #history

In case you missed it, Gender & History (vol. 38, no. 1) is out now! It includes 5 book reviews and 25 articles––the gamut of topics ranging from scandalisation, gender, and space in Ancient Roman to promises of military femininity in 1990s Sweden. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...

Deadline for abstracts for this special issue is the end of the month. ⏰ #Skystorians

We are pleased to say that our March Issue is now out! This Issue includes 434 pages of original articles, many #OpenAccess, and some book reviews. Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...

New article out by Meghmala Bhattacharya, exploring the masculinist framing of the female student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta in February 1928: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #Skystorians

#OpenAccess at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #GenderHistory

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/...