@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialMarriageable women & upright wives only allowed men of the closest kinship to see much more of them. They depended on the Qur’ān’s taboos against incest to defuse male relative’s sexual desires in private. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist
@genderandhistory.bsky.social📚 Book review:
Female Servants in Early Modern England, by Charmian Mansell, reviewed by Susan D. Amussen
@genderandhistory.bsky.social📚 Book review:
Virtue That Matters: Chastity Culture and Social Power in Chosŏn Korea, 1392–1910, by Jungwon Kim, reviewed by Ksenia Chizhova
@genderandhistory.bsky.social📚 Book review:
Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa's Anti-Apartheid Struggle: The Shadow of a Young Woman, by Rachel E. Johnson, reviewed by Susanne M. Klausen
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialDYK the Temple of #GoddessIsis at Philae was the last pagan temple to close? It succumbed in 529, long after Christians banned pagan temples in 380. The wide worship of Isis laid the way for adoration of the Virgin Mary. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #genderhistory #HistSex
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialWives of men who could only afford one bride had more freedom & power than other women. They might even have public lives. The only power women in a harem had they gained through their sons who might become their husbands’ heirs. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory
@livunipress.bsky.socialHow was maidenhood understood in the ancient world? 🏺 'Maidenhood in the Greco-Roman World' by Ada Nifosi draws on burials, inscriptions, and art to uncover how young women were perceived, commemorated, and socially constructed in death. Learn more: bit.ly/AncientMaide... #genderhistory #ancientsky
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social“… take only a small part and refrain from cutting most of the clitoris off.….The woman will have a bright and happy face, and is more welcome to her husband, if her pleasure is complete.” Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialThey also eventually relegated women to the sole function of producing heirs. Muslims even adopted some of the customs that Byzantine Christians used to set women apart from a full public life—the veil & separate living quarters. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #WmnHist
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialDYK “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
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialDYK 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
@nichecanada.bsky.social"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
@genderandhistory.bsky.socialWe 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...
@inz-ljubljana.bsky.social👩🏫 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
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialBut 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
@ifrwh-offical.bsky.social2. 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
@ifrwh-offical.bsky.social1. 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...
@ifrwh-offical.bsky.socialIn 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
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.socialDYK 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
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social“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
