Last year, Salama Hayek made headlines when she breastfed another women’s child in Sierra Leone, having to defend her actions and even justify why she was not ‘stealing’ [!!] milk from her own daughter. Yet, wet-nursing (breastfeeding another woman’s child)…
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Blogging Against Disablism
Yesterday was ‘Blogging against Disablism’ day, where bloggers everywhere are called to speak out against discrimination against those with disabilities. With that in mind, I began to think about what historians know about women with disabilities in the British past…
Madeleine Smith
9th Feb 1857 Emile, I have this night received your note. Oh, it is kind of you to write to me. Emile, no one can know the intense agony of mind I have suffered last night and to day. Emile,…
Before there was internet, part 2- chain mail.
Anyone who has had an email address for any length of time has probably received a chain-email- one of those emails sending you a poem or a melodramatic story, followed by a dire warning to forward it on to ten…
M. Marcin and Lucy Hutton.
She points out that Saint Paul had been taught by his mother and grandmother; she decries ‘Mans Scholastick Learning’, which, she says, has too frequently been set up to contradict the Scriptures; she notes that the words ‘she’ and ‘he’…
On Woman
This poem was published in the Ennis Chronicle and Clare Advertiser on the 25th October 1809 and reflects nineteenth century humour. Happy a man may pass his life, If freed from matrimonial chains, If he’s diverted by a wife, He’s…
Reflections on ‘Housewife’ April 1959
A housewife in April 1959 sitting down for a well earned break from the domestic round, might have picked up the latest edition of Housewife, a monthly glossy magazine from Hulton press, who also published Picture Post, Girl, and Eagle.…
Sexual Assault Awareness Month
The month of April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, designated to highlighting the ongoing problem of sexual assault in society, and encouraging people to work towards eradicating it. The problem of sexual assault and rape is a topic that has…
History Carnival 86
History Carnival 86 is up at Early Modern Notes, including various posts celebrating women’s history month. Go read!