Narratives of Ageing in the Nineteenth Century University of Lincoln, 23rd July 2019 Organisers: Dr Alice Crossley, Dr Amy Culley, Dr Rebecca Styler Plenary Speaker: Prof. Devoney Looser, Arizona State University, ‘Ageing in Public: Women Authors in the Nineteenth Century’…
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Reflections on Women’s History Month by Professor Maggie Andrews
In this fascinating blog, our committee chair, Professor Maggie Andrews reflects on what women’s history means to her. March is Women’s History Month a chance for those in WHN and beyond to share their passion, curiosity and enthusiasm about the…
Queering recognition: Exploring ‘corrective rape’ and black lesbian sexuality in a local and transnational context, By Dr. Nadine Lake
The post-apartheid political and social landscape has provided researchers, scholars and readers with an opportunity to reconceptualise the LGBTQ+ category in public culture. My PhD titled ‘Corrective rape and black lesbian sexualities in contemporary South African cultural texts’ (2017) explored…
Blitzmädels an die Front: A Lesser Known Female War Film
‘Women, Oberführerin,belong in the kitchen and in bed.’[1]Oberleutnant Wagner’s scathing dismissal of women at war epitomises the gender challenges faced by Oberführerin Hanna Helmke and her female air signals assistants in “Blitzmädels an die Front” (‘Lightning Girls on the Front’). Released on…
Research in Progress Postgraduate Workshop – Histories of Gender, University of Reading, 24 October 2018
A report from the post-graduates students who were awarded a grant by the WHN in 2018. The University of Reading’s History Department hosted its inaugural postgraduate workshop under the recently launched Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster. The theme of the…
‘There is a good deal of uncertainty as to how the women will vote’: The 1918 General Election in Birmingham
100 years ago, on 14 December 1918, women in Britain went to the polls to vote in a General Election for the first time. Just ten months after the Representation of the People Act had awarded the franchise to some…
Women in the Service Industries in Southern Africa since 1900 – Dr Andrew Cohen & Dr Rory Pilossof
Women in the Service Industries in Southern Africa since 1900. Andrew Cohen (University of Kent) and Rory Pilossof (University of the Free State) There is a rich and well-developed historiography on work and labour in southern Africa. The colonial occupation…
WOMEN AND WRITING: THE WIFE BY MEG WOLITZER
Part 2 Women and writing Robin Joyce The Wife by Meg Wolitzer Review with no spoilers, originally published on Good Reads. Robin Joyce The Wife is an excellent novel with which to assess one’s own moral compass. As a…
Riding History: 3 Women Who Changed the Face of Motorcycling
The paragraphs below introduce an article that appears in full at Riding History: 3 Women Who Changed the Face of Motorcycling. Thank you to Terence Gordon, Editor of the Consumers Advocate, who sent the information and approved publication of…