Lisa Hellriegel
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Lisa Hellriegel
@lisamirabai.bsky.social
she/her | PhD student @ uni bremen | history of sexuality | thesis on sexual violence in german and english cities, 1920s-60s
Congrats!:)
November 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Das klingt richtig spannend! ☺️
September 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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One double bind of anti-rape feminism: women’s experiences of sexual violence are no guarantee of their feminist solidarity, and women’s loyalty to men or tolerance for their violence against other women is no guarantee of their personal safety.
August 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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The standard account of Me Too’s failure and backlash is that the status quo ante was restored: the temporarily embarrassed men were reemployed; the conditions of heterosexuality were unchallenged. But much of the supressed dismay and anger of that moment has been sublimated elsewhere.
July 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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Her work also demonstrates transnational connections by comparing British approaches with German practices. 🇩🇪🇬🇧

Read the blog post and find out more about these debates, which continued well into the late twentieth century:

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‘Woman’s Work’? What Debates about Policewomen in the Inter-War Period Tell Us about Contemporary Understandings of Sexual Violence
‘It’s a woman’s work.’ With these words, a 1939 leaflet encouraged women to join the Metropolitan Women Police, which at this point had existed for twenty years. While one of the photos in the brochure shows female officers learning self-defence, other pictures emphasize more gender-conformist tasks: a photo of a female officer comforting a child … Continue reading ‘Woman’s Work’? What Debates about Policewomen in the Inter-War Period Tell Us about Contemporary Understandings of Sexual Violence
ghil.hypotheses.org
July 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Drawing on archival research, the post examines competing perspectives on gender and professional roles. 👮‍♀️👩‍⚕️

Lisa Hellriegel’s research traces how these debates reflected contemporary understandings of sexual violence and victimhood, as well as the intersection of age and gender.
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July 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM