Caroline Derry
Gender, sexuality & criminal law/history.
Early women barristers. Agatha Christie.
Professor of Feminism, Law & History, The Open University.
📚 Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent (2025)
📚 Lesbianism and the Criminal Law (2020)
#ActuallyAutistic
- 🧵which works in the British context too. (With fewer aeroplanes.)
- The conflation of political activism with marches and rallies is problematic flattening history into simple progress narratives and oversimplifying the work of scholars. This limits the vision of modern-day organizers. Let's complicate our understanding of social movement history.🧵 #sschat 🗃️
- The 1921 census required every household to identify a 'head' - assumed to be a husband - but it offered no way to record same-sex relationships. So how did women and gender non- conforming people record their lives? Often subversively, as some examples show 🧵 (1/6) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26