In this OA article, Paige Donaghy argues that historians can take up the framework of ‘obstetric violence’ to study past iterations of this form of gender violence.
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@genderandhistory.bsky.socialIn this OA article, Paige Donaghy argues that historians can take up the framework of ‘obstetric violence’ to study past iterations of this form of gender violence.
@genderandhistory.bsky.socialIn a new article, Veronika Faktorová and Václav Smyčka explore the complex processes that shaped the emergence and reception of women's literature in the Czech lands in the 1830s and 1840s.
@genderandhistory.bsky.socialUnfortunately this lecture has been cancelled. We will share news of the 2027 lecture in due course. #skyhistorians
@jillianreid.bsky.socialThe London Society for Medieval Studies term card is here! Booking will be available soon! @ihr.bsky.social
With speakers from @bristolunienglish.bsky.social @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
@londonmedieval.bsky.social
#UKDisabilityHistoryMonth #skyhistorians #medieval
@genderandhistory.bsky.socialWe are excited to announce our Annual Lecture 2026!
Prof. Judith Evans-Grubbs (Emory University)
"An Illegal and Dishonorable Deed": The Sale of Children by their Parents in the Roman Empire (200-600 CE)
Wednesday, 21 October, 3:30 PM-5 PM (further details and links to come)
@genderandhistory.bsky.socialThis new OA article by Isobel Bloom examines Feminists for Life's rhetoric and activism on US college campuses in the 1990s, drawing attention to the diversity of opinion within the anti-abortion movement.
@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
@shelbymbalik.bsky.social#Skyhistorians, I could use help fact-checking. I think the only women in 17th-century English America who published *during their lifetimes* were Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson.
Am I right about this? Or was there anyone else?
@kiranmehta.bsky.socialAlways reserve the right to change your mind
(National Archives Kew, Trinidad Despatches, 1823)
#skyhistorians
@genderandhistory.bsky.social📚 Book review:
Queer Lives Across the Wall: Desire and Danger in Divided Berlin, 1945–1970 by Andrea Rottmann, reviewed by Cynthia Sadler
@genderandhistory.bsky.social📚 Book review:
Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development From Nairobi by Sarah Bellows-Blakely, reviewed by Sacha Hepburn
@genderandhistory.bsky.socialSarah 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.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#SkyHistorians #BritishHistory #Feminism
@genderandhistory.bsky.socialAlexander 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.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#SkyHistorians #CaliforniaHistory
@genderandhistory.bsky.socialThis 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.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#SkyHistorians #Vietnam
@genderandhistory.bsky.socialThis 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.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#SkyHistorians #Prostitution
@genderandhistory.bsky.socialAngad Singh's new OA article discusses how accusations of kidnapping were tools families used to police women's sexuality during the 1947 Partition of India, questioning the violent narrative that feminist history has made central
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#SkyHistorians #IndiaHistory
@genderandhistory.bsky.social📚 Book review:
The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico by Martin Austin Nesvig, reviewed by Anderson Hagler
@genderandhistory.bsky.social📚 Book review:
Not Just a Housewife: Women Strike for Peace and the Cold War Women's Peace Movement by Jon Coburn, reviewed by Amanda Westbrook Brennan
@genderandhistory.bsky.social📚 Book review:
Review of Appearance Politics: Legitimacy Building in Late Imperial and Modern China by Lex Lu, reviewed by Nicolas Schillinger