Edith Morley: the first female professor in Britain Edith Morley’s 1944 memoir, Before and After, was written a few years after retiring as the first female professor at an English university. This absorbing story, now published in book…
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CFP: 26th Annual Women’s History Network Conference, 2017
‘Women and the Wider World’ Submission deadline: Extended to Friday March 3, 2017 Conference dates: September 1 – 2, 2017 Conference Venue: University of Birmingham See full details here.
Stand We At Last
Stand We At Last Zoe Fairbairns The following excerpts are published with the permission of Zoe Fairbairns. They provide an insight into the two sisters’ different approach to life. In particular, their expectations of men, marriage and spinsterhood and their…
How Biblical Double Standards Killed Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Run
How biblical double standards killed Hillary Clinton’s presidential run November 11, 2016 8.54pm AEDT Jo Henderson-Merrygold Jo Henderson-Merrygold PhD Candidate in Biblical Studies and Queer Theory, University of Sheffield Disclosure statement Jo Henderson-Merrygold receives…
Women’s History Autumn 2016
Download the PDF edition of this journal here. Purchase this journal as a hard copy here. Contents Special issue: Remembering Eleanor Rathbone (1872-1946) Pat Thane on Eleanor Rathbone and Family Allowances, 5 Sumita Mukherjee on Radhabai Subbarayan: Debates on Indian…
A WARRIOR OF THE PEOPLE: Part 2
Excerpted with permission from A Warrior of the People by Joseph Starita. Published in November 2016 by St. Martin’s Press. On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche received her medical degree―becoming the first Native American doctor in U.S. history.…
A WARRIOR OF THE PEOPLE: Part 1
Part 1 Excerpted with permission from A Warrior of the People by Joseph Starita. Published in November 2016 by St. Martin’s Press. On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche received her medical degree―becoming the first Native American doctor in…
Lest we forget: women also serve in the armed forces
Reprinted from The Conversation, November 11, 2016 11.39pm AEDT PhD researcher, Northumbria University, Newcastle Disclosure statement Christina Dodds is a member of the Royal British Legion and is a member of the Queen Alexandra Royal Army Nursing Corps…
Women Explorers: Crossing Cultures
Join us for a day of free events at Liverpool’s World Museum on Sunday November 20, 10.30 – 4.45. When the explorer Mary Kingsley first sights the coast of West Africa in 1893, she admits she is terrified. Fear can…