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Women's History Review @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social · 4h

An obituary is now available to read: 'Remembering Laura Lovett (1963–2025), a former Deputy Editor in the USA of Women’s History Review'

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Women's History Review @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social · 19h

Book review: Sufi Women and Mystics: models of sanctity, erudition, and political leadership By Minlib Dallh, New York, Routledge, 2024, ix+169 pp., £42.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781032433080 is reviewed by Irtiza Farooq. Available here: doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...

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Women's History Review @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social · 1d

#OpenAcess so spread the word! The article 'Harriet Martineau and her Wars of Opinion' by Petros Spanou doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961... @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Women's History Review @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social · 1d

#Bookreview: 'Women, Gender, and Technosciences, 1900–2020: a beard to govern' edited by Grégory Dufaud and Isabelle Lémonon-Waxin, (2025, New York and London, Routledge), 294 pp., £145.00 is reviewed by Claire G. Jones here doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961... @tandfresearch.bsky.social

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Women's History Review @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social · 1d

#OpenAcess so spread the word! The article 'Harriet Martineau and her Wars of Opinion' by Petros Spanou doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...

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IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social · 3d

Please join us for our inaugural seminar of the term in the IHR and online. Register: tinyurl.com/298ssvkr
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Taylor & Francis Research @tandfresearch.bsky.social · 7d

Just under a week to go until our next webinar! We'd love to see you there 💻

🔎 What: behind the scenes of #OpenAccess publishing
📅 When: Weds 8 October 2025, 2pm SGT
🎫 Reserve your spot here: spr.ly/6004AXher

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Women's History Review @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social · 20d

#Bookreview: Responsible pleasure: the Brook Advisory Centres and youth sexuality in postwar Britain by Caroline Rusterholz, (@carorusterholz.bsky.social) Oxford University Press, 2024 by Barbara Gabeler is now available here: doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...

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Women's History Review @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social · 20d

#Bookreview: Sexual and Gender Minority History: a counter-narrative, by James I. Martin, Oxford University Press, 2025, reviewed by Yanyan Zhu is available at doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · Aug 21

I reviewed Eli Erlick's new book Before Gender for @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This was the smoothest production process of all time and I'm grateful to see a venerable women's history journal making space for trans history!

Before Gender: Lost stories from trans history 1850–1950

Published in Women's History Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social · Sep 8

The final article from our special section of @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social is out!

Important work from Catherine Kevin.

Towards a history of reproductive coercion and abuse in mid-twentieth century Australia
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Towards a history of reproductive coercion and abuse in mid-twentieth century Australia

Reproductive coercion refers to the obstruction of a person’s reproductive autonomy by interfering in decision-making related to contraception or termination of pregnancy. The term emerged in the 2...

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Women's History Review @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social · Aug 18

A new viewpoint is now available: An unrecorded 1785 discourse by Catharine Macaulay by Jacob Donald Chatterjee can be found here: doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...

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Women's History Review @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social · Aug 18

New article available now! 'A Chinese Portia: Laura M. White’s translation and reconstruction of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice ' by Bingyu Yang & Anbo Zhu is available here: doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...

Women's History Review @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social · Aug 18

#Bookreview: Women in New Nepal: Through the Lens of Classed, Ethnic, and Gendered Peripheries by Seika Sato and reviewed by Nurul Azmi Aprianti & Ela Nurfitriyani is available here: doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · Jul 1

Brilliant new article out by @susiedeedigan.bsky.social in @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social & fully OA #Afterlives #womensgrassrootsactivism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘It is to be assumed that members of C. na m Ban cannot be kept out of such a body!’: women, Irish republicanism, and prisoner support work 1939–45

The historical consensus on Cumann na mBan, Ireland’s republican women’s organisation, suggests that by the period of the Second World War (or Emergency as it was known in independent Ireland) it w...

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Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social · Jul 31

Open access! @anncurthoys.bsky.social from our forum on DV history in @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social

Full article: Coercive control, financial abuse, and reproductive coercion and abuse in a settler colony: Western Australia, 1860–1900 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Coercive control, financial abuse, and reproductive coercion and abuse in a settler colony: Western Australia, 1860–1900

This essay explores the value of recently developed concepts such as coercive control, financial abuse, and reproductive coercion and abuse for histories of domestic and family violence. It does so...

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Routledge History Research @routledgehistory.bsky.social · Apr 1

'Women's History Review' (@womenshistoryrev.bsky.social) is calling for contributions to a special issue on Histories of Academic Women. Further details and instructions on how to submit here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

Scholarly Lives: Histories of Academic Women

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Rochelle Rowe @drrochellerowe.bsky.social · Apr 16

It's Publication Day for my article tracing Black women in famous British art.

'Black Modernist Muses in Jacob Epstein's Art'

Read full article here👇🏾

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image: 'Roma of Barbados' Fitzwilliam Museum/Jacob Epstein
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Roxy Moore @roxymoore.bsky.social · Jun 2

It was brilliant to be in conversation with Dr. Jane Brooks at the Library last week, I've been looking forward to this event since I reviewed Dr. Brooks' compelling book for the @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social last year. Catch up on the Library's Youtube page below.

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · Jun 23

Having spent past week writing article about intergenerational activism by women in Ireland in 1960s & 1970s (out soon I hope) it was nice coincidence to get news that this article 👇 on similar theme is in @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social Vol. 34, 4 & fully OA.
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The ‘silver thread’: Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan (1890–1982), the Six Point Group, and new understandings of intergenerational female activism in England, 1960s to 1980

Focussing on the life-long activism of former suffragette and feminist Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan this article presents an innovative re-appraisal of histories of the women’s movement in England during...

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Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social · Jun 24

Pleased to see that my article 'A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain' is now in the current issue of @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social.

Open access so free for all to read.

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A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain

Focusing on the National Union of Women Teachers (NUWT) and the National Association of Women Civil Servants (NAWCS), this article looks at activism and campaigning for married women workers after ...

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