@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
@howsexgotscrewedup.bsky.social#Zeus’ chaste wife, #Hera, blinded #Tiresias for claiming he enjoyed sex more as a woman than as a man. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt.
@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 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
@genderandhistory.bsky.social📚 Book review:
Queer Vietnam: A History of Gender Transgression, 1920–1945, by Richard Quang-Anh Tran, reviewed by Giselle Bernard
@genderandhistory.bsky.social📚 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
@rebeccadewolfphdbs.bsky.socialMy 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
@emodir.bsky.social#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
@khurramsun.bsky.social@khurramsun.bsky.social@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
