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 🗃️
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A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy
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July 6, 2026 at 3:41 PM
#earlymodern history and #genderhistory!
Catalan article in the newspaper El Pais about my 2023 book The ‘Catalan Hermaphrodite’ and the Inquisition: Early Modern Sex and Gender on Trial. elpais.com/quadern/2026...
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François Soyer revela la vida de Maria Duran, natural de Prullans, que va tenir una vida sensacional al segle XVIII
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January 26, 2026 at 10:28 AM
#earlymodern history and #genderhistory!
Now the contract is signed etc we're very pleased to share this news. Please do follow the below account to keep up to date with what we're doing. #GenderHistory
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
#Skystorians #GenderHistory @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
'Gender & History' moves to Edinburgh | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology
The School is very excited to announce that the leading international journal ‘Gender & History’ has moved to the University of Edinburgh.
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September 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Now the contract is signed etc we're very pleased to share this news. Please do follow the below account to keep up to date with what we're doing. #GenderHistory
#CfP 📢 New book series: "Genders and Sexualities in the Early Modern World", eds. Elizabeth Rhodes, James Daybell and Merry Wiesner-Hanks (Brill).
⏰Deadline: 20 June 2028
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#EarlyModern #GenderHistory #GenderHistory #HistoryOfSexuality
⏰Deadline: 20 June 2028
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#EarlyModern #GenderHistory #GenderHistory #HistoryOfSexuality
Forthcoming Series: Genders and Sexualities in the Early Modern World
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June 5, 2026 at 6:39 AM
#CfP 📢 New book series: "Genders and Sexualities in the Early Modern World", eds. Elizabeth Rhodes, James Daybell and Merry Wiesner-Hanks (Brill).
⏰Deadline: 20 June 2028
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#EarlyModern #GenderHistory #GenderHistory #HistoryOfSexuality
⏰Deadline: 20 June 2028
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#EarlyModern #GenderHistory #GenderHistory #HistoryOfSexuality
Having slightly recovered from the whole immersion debacle, I’m happier today to share this fantastic ‘Airbushed’ podcast series to which I contributed. Six episodes on six queer Irish revolutionary women #history #genderhistory #irishhistory #queerhistory #skystorians
Airbrushed has been a fabulous journey designed to give listeners an insight into the private lives of some of the formidable women who shaped the country. All six episodes are now live :)
Doff of the cap to the wonderful Niamh Browne and Alana Daly Mulligan.
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Doff of the cap to the wonderful Niamh Browne and Alana Daly Mulligan.
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Hot Press Podcasts presents: <I>Airbrushed</I> episode 6: Margaret Skinnider | Hotpress
The series final episode, focusing on Scottish irish revolutionary, sniper and feminist Margaret Skinnider, is out now.
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December 6, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Having slightly recovered from the whole immersion debacle, I’m happier today to share this fantastic ‘Airbushed’ podcast series to which I contributed. Six episodes on six queer Irish revolutionary women #history #genderhistory #irishhistory #queerhistory #skystorians
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.
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#SkyHistorians #BritishHistory #Feminism
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#SkyHistorians #BritishHistory #Feminism
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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September 25, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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.
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#SkyHistorians #Vietnam
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#SkyHistorians #Vietnam
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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September 18, 2026 at 1:06 PM
On this day in 1634, Amye Everard Ball became the first woman in England known to receive a patent — for a tincture of saffron. #WomensHistory #GenderHistory
June 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
On this day in 1634, Amye Everard Ball became the first woman in England known to receive a patent — for a tincture of saffron. #WomensHistory #GenderHistory
J-7. Bordeaux Montaigne samedi prochain 9h! Mail ou dm si vous souhaitez venir ou un lien vers la visio.
#18thc
#genderhistory
#18thc
#genderhistory
C'est avec un grand plaisir ( et une certaine émotion) que je vous annonce la soutenance de mon habilitation à diriger des recherches en histoire moderne le 10 janvier à l'université de bordeaux.
January 3, 2026 at 10:37 AM
J-7. Bordeaux Montaigne samedi prochain 9h! Mail ou dm si vous souhaitez venir ou un lien vers la visio.
#18thc
#genderhistory
#18thc
#genderhistory
Our researcher Elisavet Papalexopoulou defends her #PhD thesis on women’s ideas and political practices in the Greek cultural space in the early #19thcentury 👉 loom.ly/GTDmOkY
📚 #GenderHistory #PoliticalHistory #IntellectualHistory
📚 #GenderHistory #PoliticalHistory #IntellectualHistory
January 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Our researcher Elisavet Papalexopoulou defends her #PhD thesis on women’s ideas and political practices in the Greek cultural space in the early #19thcentury 👉 loom.ly/GTDmOkY
📚 #GenderHistory #PoliticalHistory #IntellectualHistory
📚 #GenderHistory #PoliticalHistory #IntellectualHistory
This #BlackHistoryMonth, explore the challenges of uncovering the lives of women—especially Black, Asian & ethnic minority women—who left no written record.
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#BHM2025 #InclusiveArchives #WomensHistory #GenderHistory
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#BHM2025 #InclusiveArchives #WomensHistory #GenderHistory
October 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This #BlackHistoryMonth, explore the challenges of uncovering the lives of women—especially Black, Asian & ethnic minority women—who left no written record.
Read: womenshistorynetwork.org/searching-fo...
#BHM2025 #InclusiveArchives #WomensHistory #GenderHistory
Read: womenshistorynetwork.org/searching-fo...
#BHM2025 #InclusiveArchives #WomensHistory #GenderHistory
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
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on the two Weimar-era German writers, Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner.
#WeimarRepublic #NeueFrau #GermanHistory #WomensHistory #skyhistorians
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The Not‐So‐Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945
This article studies the post-1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and ...
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July 5, 2026 at 11:35 AM
In short, recovery of the Breslau Codex allows scholars of #MedievalMedicine & #GenderHistory to continue to interrogate this important document. Would I give anything to find the original again? Yes! Deciphering this image, for example, might be possible. But am I amazed what can be done now? YES!
November 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
In short, recovery of the Breslau Codex allows scholars of #MedievalMedicine & #GenderHistory to continue to interrogate this important document. Would I give anything to find the original again? Yes! Deciphering this image, for example, might be possible. But am I amazed what can be done now? YES!
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 🗃️
#Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistChild 🗃️
Call for papers: Childhood, Gender and Crises: Living at the End of the World. for Gender & History
January 22, 2026 at 11:44 AM
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 🗃️
#Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistChild 🗃️
New article on early view for #Skystorians #GenderHistory
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.
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#SkyHistorians #CaliforniaHistory
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#SkyHistorians #CaliforniaHistory
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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September 25, 2026 at 7:58 AM
New article on early view for #Skystorians #GenderHistory
#Ausstellung
Marburger Frauen im #Nationalsozialismus
Studierende des Zentrums für Gender Studies zeigen Biografien von Frauen zwischen #Verfolgung und #Beteiligung im NS-Staat.
📅 noch bis 17.08.25
📍 Phillips Universität Marburg
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#NSGeschichte #GenderHistory #Erinnerungskultur
Marburger Frauen im #Nationalsozialismus
Studierende des Zentrums für Gender Studies zeigen Biografien von Frauen zwischen #Verfolgung und #Beteiligung im NS-Staat.
📅 noch bis 17.08.25
📍 Phillips Universität Marburg
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#NSGeschichte #GenderHistory #Erinnerungskultur
Marburger Frauen im Nationalsozialismus
Eine Ausstellung von Studierenden am Marburger Zentrum für Gender Studies und feministische Zukunftsforschung
www.uni-marburg.de
May 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
#Ausstellung
Marburger Frauen im #Nationalsozialismus
Studierende des Zentrums für Gender Studies zeigen Biografien von Frauen zwischen #Verfolgung und #Beteiligung im NS-Staat.
📅 noch bis 17.08.25
📍 Phillips Universität Marburg
👉 buff.ly/XapVjB8
#NSGeschichte #GenderHistory #Erinnerungskultur
Marburger Frauen im #Nationalsozialismus
Studierende des Zentrums für Gender Studies zeigen Biografien von Frauen zwischen #Verfolgung und #Beteiligung im NS-Staat.
📅 noch bis 17.08.25
📍 Phillips Universität Marburg
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#NSGeschichte #GenderHistory #Erinnerungskultur
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.
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#SkyHistorians #ColonialHistory
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#SkyHistorians #ColonialHistory
‘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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August 31, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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#GenderRegimes #GenderHistory #GenderInequality #Feminism #Historiography #Skystorians
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#GenderRegimes #GenderHistory #GenderInequality #Feminism #Historiography #Skystorians
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July 28, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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#GenderRegimes #GenderHistory #GenderInequality #Feminism #Historiography #Skystorians
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#GenderRegimes #GenderHistory #GenderInequality #Feminism #Historiography #Skystorians
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📚 Book review:
Female Servants in Early Modern England, by Charmian Mansell, reviewed by Susan D. Amussen
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#BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory
Female Servants in Early Modern England, by Charmian Mansell, reviewed by Susan D. Amussen
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#BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory
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August 27, 2026 at 10:31 AM
📚 Book review:
Female Servants in Early Modern England, by Charmian Mansell, reviewed by Susan D. Amussen
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#BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory
Female Servants in Early Modern England, by Charmian Mansell, reviewed by Susan D. Amussen
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#BookReview #skyhistorians #GenderHistory
#fashionhistory A second Paris exhibit to recommend, also at the Palais Galleria. Fascinating.
#skystorians #womenshistory #genderhistory #fashion #feminism www.palaisgalliera.paris.fr/expositions/...
#skystorians #womenshistory #genderhistory #fashion #feminism www.palaisgalliera.paris.fr/expositions/...
Un vestiaire à soi. Féminités dissidentes au 19e siècle
Cet automne, le Palais Galliera présente l’exposition « Un vestiaire à soi.
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October 1, 2026 at 12:55 PM
#fashionhistory A second Paris exhibit to recommend, also at the Palais Galleria. Fascinating.
#skystorians #womenshistory #genderhistory #fashion #feminism www.palaisgalliera.paris.fr/expositions/...
#skystorians #womenshistory #genderhistory #fashion #feminism www.palaisgalliera.paris.fr/expositions/...
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.
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#SkyHistorians #Prostitution
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#SkyHistorians #Prostitution
“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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September 18, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Don't miss this important event on #GenderHistory. The CfP is open until November 10: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
October 22, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Don't miss this important event on #GenderHistory. The CfP is open until November 10: www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
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.
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#ChineseHistory #TravelWriting #Masculinity #Prostitution
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#ChineseHistory #TravelWriting #Masculinity #Prostitution
Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949
This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chine...
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July 5, 2026 at 11:33 AM
We're welcoming Heleen Wyffels to the #LowCountries seminar this week! She'll talk about "Women, gender and social status in the #EarlyModern printing house"
Join us for #BookHistory #GenderHistory
28 Feb 5:30 @ihr.bsky.social &zoom
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Join us for #BookHistory #GenderHistory
28 Feb 5:30 @ihr.bsky.social &zoom
all welcome, register for zoom www.history.ac.uk/events/women...
February 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
We're welcoming Heleen Wyffels to the #LowCountries seminar this week! She'll talk about "Women, gender and social status in the #EarlyModern printing house"
Join us for #BookHistory #GenderHistory
28 Feb 5:30 @ihr.bsky.social &zoom
all welcome, register for zoom www.history.ac.uk/events/women...
Join us for #BookHistory #GenderHistory
28 Feb 5:30 @ihr.bsky.social &zoom
all welcome, register for zoom www.history.ac.uk/events/women...