#GenderHistory
DYK “How Sex Got Screwed Up” is now available as an eBook? To learn #GenderHistory& #HistSexof the world, including #QueerSex, #WmnHist, & #Zoophilia, go to VernonPress.com: Book One ISBN 978-1-62273-69-11 Book Two ISBN 978-1-62273-584-6
October 12, 2026 at 3:53 PM
DYK “How Sex Got Screwed Up” is now available as an eBook? To learn #GenderHistory & #HistSex of the world, including #QueerSex, #WmnHist, & #Zoophilia, go to VernonPress.com: Book One ISBN 978-1-62273-69-11 Book Two ISBN 978-1-62273-584-6
October 11, 2026 at 4:06 PM
DYK until 20thC, a woman had to marry whomever her master—father, brother, owner—wished? A wife had to have sex when her new master/husband wished & abstain when he did or when he wished to have sex w/someone else. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #MarriageHistory
October 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM
"Aboriginal men’s success in the commercial logging industry and in logging sports led to the development of 'All-Native' logging competitions in the Fraser Valley." - @colinosmond.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2016/04/04/w...

#envhist #genderhistory #indigenoushistory #logging
“We made a strong statement for First Nations loggers, plus we put on a good salmon BBQ!”: Aboriginal Logging Sports and Masculinity in British Columbia
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of posts considering the intersection between environmental history and gender history. The entire series is available here. Today, flannel-clad, axe-wie...
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October 9, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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...
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.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 9, 2026 at 8:55 AM
👩‍🏫 The conference brought together researchers working on women in socialist societies and addressed political participation, reproductive policies, transnational networks, minorities, and dissident voices.

#WomensHistory #GenderHistory #LateSocialism #History #INZ #Research
October 9, 2026 at 8:49 AM
But lawmakers also believed that women cooperated in their own rapes. So, they took away the raped woman’s right to own property & she might be forced into #SexWork to survive. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #WmnHist
October 8, 2026 at 3:05 PM
DYK Victorian mensaw “good” women as passive, passionless, & helpless, but put them in #SoftPorn? John Bell’s lion gives up raw sexual energy for love of Una’s chaste beauty. A hit at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Ghosts of #GenderHistory haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
October 8, 2026 at 2:29 PM
2. Following our ESSHC panel, join us for our 40th Anniversary Event at the Université Lumière Lyon 2, 5.30-7.30pm. We will have speakers, discussions & a cocktail reception 🍸Please see our website: www.ifrwh.com #WomensHistory #GenderHistory
Home Page
The International Federation for Women's History
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October 8, 2026 at 12:43 PM
1. Women's and Gender History: The State of the Field - Roundtable at the ESSHC. Together with feminist historians associated with the editorial board of Aspasia, we'll discuss the state of the field since the founding of our orgs #WomensHistory #GenderHistory esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en/programme...
Conference Programme | ESSHC
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October 8, 2026 at 12:43 PM
In 2027, the IFRWH will celebrate its 40th anniversary 🎉 We will mark the occasion in Lyon, France in April 2027. Two events for your diaries #WomensHistory #GenderHistory
October 8, 2026 at 12:43 PM
DYK Victorian men saw “good” women as passive, passionless & helpless? Any who enjoyed #SexPlay were sinners & needed a guy’s forgiveness? This is #MuscularChristianity’s Charles Kingsley’s (d.1875) sketch of himself w/wife as #Magdalene. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory
October 7, 2026 at 3:20 PM
“We shall not allow fathers to be legally inferior to mothers in any particular. ...”
Not even a hundred years later, Clovis I declared that women could no longer inherit! Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist
October 6, 2026 at 3:18 PM
#Zeus’ chaste wife, #Hera, blinded #Tiresias for claiming he enjoyed sex more as a woman than as a man. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt.
October 5, 2026 at 4:32 PM
DYK “How Sex Got Screwed Up” is now available as an eBook? To learn #GenderHistory& #HistSexof the world, including #QueerSex, #WmnHist, & #Zoophilia, go to VernonPress.com: Book One ISBN 978-1-62273-69-11 Book Two ISBN 978-1-62273-584-6
October 5, 2026 at 4:20 PM
DYK “How Sex Got Screwed Up” is now available as an eBook? To learn #GenderHistory& #HistSexof the world, including #QueerSex, #WmnHist, & #Zoophilia, go to VernonPress.com: Book One ISBN 978-1-62273-69-11 Book Two ISBN 978-1-62273-584-6
October 4, 2026 at 3:22 PM
DYK until 1870 most doctors refused to treat nervous men because they believed they didn’t exist? Anxiety & #hysteria were emotional disorders for ladies only. Many medical professionals believed the cause was a #WanderingUterus. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #WmnHist
October 3, 2026 at 5:10 PM
📚 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
Queer Vietnam: A History of Gender Transgression, 1920–1945
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 2, 2026 at 8:52 AM
📚 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
Teaching Gender: The British University and the Rise of Heterosexuality, 1860–1939
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October 2, 2026 at 8:50 AM
My latest piece for the Women & Politics Institute at AU. Gender will remain on the ballot for women until the Constitution robustly affirms women's status as full rights-bearing citizens. www.genderontheballot.org/gender-will-...
#womensrights #genderhistory #equality #womenshistory
Gender will Remain on the Ballot for Women - Gender on the Ballot
In 1855, influential women’s rights activist Lucy Stone observed in a letter to her close friend, and future sister-in-law, Antoinette Brown, that “It is very little to me to have the right to vote, t...
www.genderontheballot.org
October 1, 2026 at 4:44 PM
#CfA 📢 Eleonora Rai #Prize, Università di Torino

For doctoral theses in religious, cultural & gender history, especially on violence from early modern to contemporary era.

⏰ 15 Oct 2026
🔗 dipstudistorici.unito.it/do/avvisi.pl/Show?_id=djca

#ReligiousHistory #GenderHistory #HistoryOfViolence
www.culturalheritage.unito.it
September 29, 2026 at 7:24 AM
DYK “How Sex Got Screwed Up” is now available as an eBook? To learn #GenderHistory& #HistSexof the world, including #QueerSex, #WmnHist, & #Zoophilia, go to VernonPress.com: Book One ISBN 978-1-62273-69-11 Book Two ISBN 978-1-62273-584-6
September 28, 2026 at 5:29 PM