Gender & History Journal
Gender & History is the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations.
- New article out by Jennifer Nelson and Steven Wuhs on the debate in Mexico 1990-2008 on abortion. It argues that pro-life advocates appropriated human rights arguments ('strategic secularism') to assert protections for the ‘unborn’. #Skystorians 🗃️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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- New article by Gil Engelstein & @irisrach.bsky.social, 'From the Fields Into the Bars', on Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977). It analyses the circumstances enabling its publication & why Spotheim was unsuccessful in advocating for trans women. 🗃️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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- CFP for a Special Issue of Gender & History on childhood and crises to be edited by Katie Barclay and Emily Ward. Abstracts due 31 May 2026; then hybrid workshop; full articles due 31 Jan. 2027. Please share widely. #Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistChild 🗃️
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- New #OpenAccess article by Lorinda Cramer on Australia's wool industry 1900-50. It explores how the products and handling of wool waste are connected to gender: the work and the use, with some goods aligned to purity and others to pollution. 🗃️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/DAUK7S...
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- New article by Margaret Carlyle & Marcia Nichols on early 19thC anatomical flap books. It argues that their resurgence both signalled the stabilization of men's authority in childbirth and fuelled concerns around their tactile engagement with the female body. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- New article by Margaret Carlyle & Marcia Nichols on early 19thC anatomical flap books. It argues that their resurgence both signalled the stabilization of men's authority in childbirth and fuelled concerns around their tactile engagement with the female body. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Happy New Year! We have two new articles on the website. First, an article by Joanne Meyerowitz, which uses the long career of Janice Raymond to trace a genealogy of radical feminism and its longstanding associations with conservative anti-gender movements. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
- We are pleased to say that our latest Special Issue, titled Gender and Segregation, is out! This Special Issue explores the ways in which a gendered analysis illuminates histories of segregation. Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...
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- In this #OpenAccess article, Jordi Mas Grau and Rafael Cáceres-Feria examine case files relating to convictions of homosexuality in Barcelona, revealing a bias in Francoist justice yet also spheres of homosexual sociability transgressing dominant moral norms. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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- We are very pleased to announce that “Trans Misogyny in the Colonial Archive" by Jamey Jesperson was selected for the 2025 Jensen-Miller Award for best article on women and gender in the North American West from the Western History Association!
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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. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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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
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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. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- 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...
- 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. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- 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...
- '... 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 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- 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. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- 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'. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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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. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- 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. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- This is happening TOMORROW! More info below 👇
- 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...
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- 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...
- '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 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- 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. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- 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...
- In this #OpenAccess article, William Bainbridge explores the gendered segregation of Victorian mountaineering, highlighting how women played a significant, yet deliberately overlooked, role in its history. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- In this article, Grace E. Coolidge uses a sample of eighty wills to explore the 'economies of death' which emerged in seventeenth-century Toledo, Spain and relied heavily on the resilience, economic activity and agency of women. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
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- In this #OpenAccess article, Indrani Chatterjee traces the career of women slaves in the nineteenth century household-state of Awadh, before considering how British official necropolitics has shaped the historiography of slavery until the present. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- In this #OpenAccess article, Kelly Ricciardi Colvin examines a wave of Orientalism-inspired food commercials on television in France between 1975 and 2000, using an intersectional lens to show how they reveal deeper anxieties in the French populace. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- In this #OpenAccess article, Tuğba Karaman analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, showing how reformers both redefined notions of femininity and masculinity and asserted control over them. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- In this #OpenAccess article, Aino Pihlak and Emily Cousens show how the Salmacis Society disrupted dominant antagonisms between ‘trans’ and ‘lesbian’ in the 1970s, offering a trans, sex-positive, lesbian femme-inism to help reanimate lesbian feminism today. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- In this Special Issue #OpenAccess article, Catherine Phipps examines segregation through the lens of gender, intimacy, race and colonial rule, focusing on how the French colonial state controlled 'mixed marriages' during the Second World War. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- In this #OpenAccess article, Ella Rossman explores post-Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, showing how various texts both conveyed an exclusionary ideology of girlhood alongside visions of female excellence and female defiance. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- In this article, Margaret Mishra examines testimonies of two indentured Indian women sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of Fiji for murdering their husbands in 1897 and 1905 to draw out the intricate relationship between gender, ethnicity and law. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- In this #OpenAccess article, Taejin Hwang explores how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU) forged international leftist women's solidarity during the period from 1945 to 1949, and in turn shifted the core tenets of transnational feminism. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- In this #OpenAccess article, Shira Pinhas explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine, revealing its unequal adoption and the hazards its use entailed amongst Arab and Jewish women. Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
- In this article, Katariina Parhi analyses the information produced about vagrant women by correctional labour facilities in metropolitan Finland between 1942 and 1947, showing how work offered an opportunity for these women to escape their vagrant status. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- In this review, Margaret Mishra describes ‘Gender, Violence and Criminal Justice in the Colonial Pacific, 1880–1920’ by Kate Stevens as an ‘archival powerhouse’ of research on gender, violence, colonialism and law. Read the full review here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- In this #OpenAcess article, Mariela Fargas Peñarrochas explores a case of disinheritance in eighteenth-century Barcelona, shedding light on how women self-affirmed and became agents of their own lives. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- In this article, Dong Xiaoyan uses a pivotal text from Imperial China – often viewed as a quintessential example of patriarchal society – to explore how women's experiences were represented yet also how they shaped their identities through everyday practices. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- In our latest Special Issue article, Felicity M. Turner complicates historical ideas about gender and incarceration by positing that in nineteenth century North Carolina, segregation in carceral spaces by virtue of gender served to benefit some women. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- In this Special Issue article, Lauren Jae Gutterman draws on oral history interviews, organisational ephemera, television talk shows and published materials to uncover gay and bisexual men's leadership in the male survivors’ movement between 1985 and 1995. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- In this article, Allison Edgren investigates the role of gender in regulating begging in fourteenth and fifteenth-century southern Germany. Edgren shows that medieval observers considered beggars’ gender individually and in terms of their relationships. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
- In this review, Sonja Dolinsek describes Sébastien Tremblay’s latest book as an ‘impressive and deeply thoughtful contribution to the field of transnational queer history and memory studies.’ Read it here 👇🏻 doi.org/10.1111/1468...
