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Gender & History is the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations.

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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 15d

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...
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'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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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations and good luck to the new editorial team of @genderandhistory.bsky.social! It's been an honour editing the journal with my Sheffield colleagues and pals for the last five years, and I am looking forward to seeing it thrive at Edinburgh!

HCAatEdinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social · 14d

The leading international journal ‘Gender & History’ (@genderandhistory.bsky.social) has moved to the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, edin.ac/46z9jy5

#History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #Gender

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations to Emma, my wonderful colleage @dependencybonn.de !
The full @genderandhistory.bsky.social SI on Gender & Segregation will be published later this year, with 13 terrific articles and a substantial introduction by Lisa Hellmann, @djrgrey.bsky.social, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and myself.

Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 15d

Very excited latest 📄 in special issue
@genderandhistory.bsky.social
ed. by @writinghelena.bsky.social l; Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and me is out, and #openaccess! 🌟 Emma Kalb investigates "A Harem in Disorder: Narrating Elite Female Seclusion in Late Mughal Delhi" doi.org/10.1111/1468...

A Harem in Disorder: Narrating Elite Female Seclusion in Late Mughal Delhi

This article examines the late Mughal period, a time of dramatic political reconfiguration, to trace the relevance of practices of elite female seclusion, and particularly of the complex space of the...

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HCAatEdinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social · 14d

The leading international journal ‘Gender & History’ (@genderandhistory.bsky.social) has moved to the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, edin.ac/46z9jy5

#History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #Gender

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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 15d

Very excited latest 📄 in special issue
@genderandhistory.bsky.social
ed. by @writinghelena.bsky.social l; Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and me is out, and #openaccess! 🌟 Emma Kalb investigates "A Harem in Disorder: Narrating Elite Female Seclusion in Late Mughal Delhi" doi.org/10.1111/1468...

A Harem in Disorder: Narrating Elite Female Seclusion in Late Mughal Delhi

This article examines the late Mughal period, a time of dramatic political reconfiguration, to trace the relevance of practices of elite female seclusion, and particularly of the complex space of the...

Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 15d

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

'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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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · Aug 25

Delighted to see the latest article in special issue @genderandhistory.bsky.social ed. [email protected]; Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and me out! 🌟 Greg Downs investigates the experiences of Black rural working women at elections in South Carolina 1874-1895 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Armed Women at the Polling Grounds: Black Rural Working Women's Struggle Again Election‐Day Segregation in South Carolina, 1874–1895

This article examines testimony about Black rural women's physical, sometimes violent, interventions in Reconstruction era South Carolina elections to illuminate the relationship between race, space ....

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 16d

Marinella Marmo and I published this article back in 2011 for @genderandhistory.bsky.social on the practice of 'virginity testing' by UK border officials and the experiences of South Asian migrant women in the 1970s.

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Uncovering the ‘Virginity Testing’ Controversy in the National Archives: The Intersectionality of Discrimination in British Immigration History

This article explores the practice of ‘virginity testing’ by British immigration officers in the late 1970s through the internal documents of the Home Office held at the National Archives in London. ...

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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · Jun 17

Fascinating new #OpenAccess article by Insa Nolte in @genderandhistory.bsky.social : "Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa" 🌟https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0424.12864

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba-speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that c....

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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · Jun 23

Latest of @genderandhistory.bsky.social
special issue on Gender & Segregation - ed.
@writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman & Rachel Jean-Baptiste & myself - is now out! Jens Carlesson Magalhães examines the case of the only Jewish girls' school in 19th Century Sweden 🌟 doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Integration Through Segregation: Swedish‐Jewish Emancipationists and the Jewish Girls’ School in Nineteenth‐Century Sweden

This article analyses the only Jewish girls’ school in nineteenth-century Sweden, Sophiaskolan, and the discussions about girls’ education and Bildung that emerged within the community – including re....

Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · Jun 25

In this #OpenAccess article, Ivana Arsić explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas and Moriscas in navigating adversity and reveals the role of gender and female authority in shaping religious identities in premodern Mediterranean society.

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In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their ...

Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · Jun 25

In this #SpecialIssue article, Jens Carlesson Magalhães analyses the only Jewish girls’ school in nineteenth-century Sweden, Sophiaskolan, and discussions about girls’ education and Bildung within that community including about Judaism's ‘Oriental heritage’

Read it here 👇

doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Integration Through Segregation: Swedish‐Jewish Emancipationists and the Jewish Girls’ School in Nineteenth‐Century Sweden

This article analyses the only Jewish girls’ school in nineteenth-century Sweden, Sophiaskolan, and the discussions about girls’ education and Bildung that emerged within the community – including re...

Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · Jun 18

In this #SpecialIssue article, Emily Cock assesses the gendered experiences of disability and segregation among prisoners in colonial (1830s) New South Wales, showing how the convict system accommodated individuals with a wide range of impairments.

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Disability, Gender and Segregation in the Britain–Australia Convict System

This article assesses the gendered experiences of disability and segregation among prisoners in colonial (1830s) New South Wales. I use the distinction between impairment and disability from the ‘soc...

Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · Jun 18

In this #OpenAccess article, Insa Nolte draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to explore how marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba-speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century.

Read it here 👇

doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba-speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that c...

Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · Jun 11

'... supported by deep archival work, and… an admirable willingness to speculate when the evidence is fragmentary.'

Read Tristan G. Brown's review of The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories From Late Imperial China by Matthew H. Sommer, here 👇

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The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories From Late Imperial China

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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · Jun 11

In this #OpenAccess article, Kersti Lust and Andreas Kalkun explore how illegitimacy was stigmatised and reduced the marriage prospects of both single mothers and their daughters in nineteenth-century Estonia.

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Illegitimacy and Its Effects on Marriage Prospects in Nineteenth‐century and Early Twentieth‐century Rural Estonia

Using narrative sources and parish registers to assess the effects of illegitimacy on the life chances of the mothers and children, this article demonstrates how, in nineteenth-century rural Estonia,...

Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · May 28

In this review, Nina Neuscheler describes 'The Intimate Life of Computers' by Reem Hilu as a 'well-researched and very accessible account to learn about computers in the domestic sphere'.

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The Intimate Life of Computers: Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s

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History at Bristol @uobrishistory.bsky.social · May 15

Today!

Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · Apr 24

We are pleased to share the details for the Annual Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Their talk is titled 'Kin: transgender history with and beyond the human'.

May 15, 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 (In person and Online)

Register here 👇

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Poster advertising the 2025 Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Information about the date, time and location can be found at the bottom of the poster, along with a QR to scan.

Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · May 14

In this #OpenAccess article, Antara Datta and Jinal Parekh use two critical moments in British immigration to trace how the female dependant became the focus of discriminatory bordering practices and her body an evidentiary source in the immigration system.

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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘vir...

Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · May 14

In this article, Sofia Zepeda explores the contradictory, complex ways in which British and Irish sailors and the state framed naval service between 1793–1815 and adopted a shared language of patriarchy.

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‘I Canot Releve You at Presant’: Sailors, the State and a Breadwinner Wage in Britain and Ireland, 1793–1815

This article argues that British and Irish sailors and the state communicated in a shared language of patriarchy, furthering the state's goal of a strong navy and sailors’ aspirational goal of acting...

Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · May 14

This is happening TOMORROW!

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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · Apr 24

We are pleased to share the details for the Annual Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Their talk is titled 'Kin: transgender history with and beyond the human'.

May 15, 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 (In person and Online)

Register here 👇

ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...

Poster advertising the 2025 Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Information about the date, time and location can be found at the bottom of the poster, along with a QR to scan.

Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · May 7

Join us next week!

Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · Apr 24

We are pleased to share the details for the Annual Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Their talk is titled 'Kin: transgender history with and beyond the human'.

May 15, 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 (In person and Online)

Register here 👇

ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...

Poster advertising the 2025 Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Information about the date, time and location can be found at the bottom of the poster, along with a QR to scan.

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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · Apr 24

We are pleased to share the details for the Annual Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Their talk is titled 'Kin: transgender history with and beyond the human'.

May 15, 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 (In person and Online)

Register here 👇

ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...

Poster advertising the 2025 Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Information about the date, time and location can be found at the bottom of the poster, along with a QR to scan.

Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · Apr 30

'A substantial contribution... that can be applied to global justice, post-colonial, anti-racist, gendered and intersectional dimensions of transnational feminisms.'

Read Angelika Schaser's review of Feminist Activism, Travel and Translation by Johanna Gehmacher here 👇

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Feminist Activism, Travel and Translation Around 1900: Transnational Practices of Mediation and the Case of Käthe Schirmacher

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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · Apr 29

In this article, Yongku Cha shows how stories of positive emotional interaction between female lords and subordinate women in twelfth-century Flanders challenge traditional views of feudal society.

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Female Emotional Interactions in Medieval Flanders: Emotional Communities of Twelfth‐Century Guines and Ardres

Lambert's Historia allows us to imagine an emotional community in the countryside of twelfth-century Flanders. This masterpiece illustrates a valuable image of the specific affective relationships be...

Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · Apr 24

We are pleased to share the details for the Annual Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Their talk is titled 'Kin: transgender history with and beyond the human'.

May 15, 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 (In person and Online)

Register here 👇

ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...

Poster advertising the 2025 Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Information about the date, time and location can be found at the bottom of the poster, along with a QR to scan.