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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 · Sep 25
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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A taster of our special issue on gender and segregation, due out in a few weeks.

Thank you also to @dependencybonn.de for funding the conference during which many of these ideas were first discussed.
October 29, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Critical introduction to forthcoming "Gender & Segregation" special issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social by Lisa Hellman, @writinghelena.bsky.social, Rachel Jean-Baptiste & me is now out and #OpenAccess! Issue itself to follow shortly... 🌟

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Gender and Segregation: An Introduction
This introduction to the Special Issue explores the ways in which a gendered analysis illuminates histories of segregation. It argues three key points. First, it is essential to understand segregatio....
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October 29, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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In this #SpecialIssue article, Mary Sanderson explores the use of sodomy accusations in satires featuring William Pitt the Younger between 1784 and 1790, showing how they reflected concerns about the malleability of race, sexuality and gender.

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Sodomy, Corruption and Englishness: Politicising Sexuality in Satirical Depictions of William Pitt the Younger, 1784–1790
This article employs close reading to explore the use of sodomy accusations in satires featuring William Pitt the Younger between 1784 and 1790. Drawing from civic republican rhetoric, Pitt's opponen....
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October 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Delighted that latest article from forthcoming Special Issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social is now available, co-edited by @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste & me! Elisabetta Iob explores purdah & resistance in 1950s Pakistan 🌟

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The Girls Are in Town: Purdah, Emotions and Everyday Resistance in Urban Pakistan
Pakistan, mid-1950s. Many upper-class women had already left or were about to leave purdah (or its remnants). This article investigates how these women challenged seclusion, redefining relations of p...
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October 11, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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writinghelena.bsky.social
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.bsky.social HCAatEdinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social · Sep 25
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
September 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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writinghelena.bsky.social
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.
September 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
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
September 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Very excited latest 📄 in special issue
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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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September 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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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.
hca.ed.ac.uk
September 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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djrgrey.bsky.social
Delighted to see the latest article in special issue @genderandhistory.bsky.social ed. by@writinghelena.bsky.social; 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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August 25, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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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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September 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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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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June 17, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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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....
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June 23, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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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 ...
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June 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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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’

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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...
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June 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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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...
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June 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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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...
doi.org
June 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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'... 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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June 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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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,...
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June 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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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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May 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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genderandhistory.bsky.social 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.
May 15, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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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...
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May 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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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...
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May 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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This is happening TOMORROW!

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genderandhistory.bsky.social 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.
May 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Join us next week!
genderandhistory.bsky.social 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.
May 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM