The Women’s History Network blog
President Edith Joiner addresses the Perfects. Jan. 29, 1897. May Bragdon Diaries. Rare Books, Special Collections & Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries. In the 1890s, a group of young, single, professional women in Rochester, New York, formed…
In Blues Legacies and Black Feminism (1998), philosopher Angela Davis considers the “ideological implications of the blues,” asking “What can we learn from blueswomen like Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday…?” Though the music of artists like Bessie…
Don’t miss out on our special seminar for LGBT History Month, featuring Steven Dryden from the British Library speaking on women involved in Gay Liberation Front during the 1970s and 80s! Wednesday, 9th February 2022, 4pm GMT Register on Zoom…
Devon Women in Public and Professional Life, 1900-1950: Votes, Voices and Vocations by Julia Neville, Mitzi Auchterlonie, Paul Auchterlonie, Ann Roberts, Helen Turnbull Written by a group of Devon History Society colleagues keen to demonstrate the role of local histories…
Fifty years have now passed since Linda Nochlin launched a feminist art history by asking, ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ (1971).[1] Since then, several art historians have made cases for the greatness of certain women including Artemisia…
Join us for the second seminar of our Spring Series, featuring Dr Mytheli Sreenivas, with the paper titled: ‘Heterosexuality and the “Happy Family”: Desire, Development, and Population Control in India, 1930s-1970s’ Wednesday 26th January 2022 at 4pm GMT Register for…
In 1938 Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, one of the leaders of the Women’s Social & Political Union (WSPU), published her autobiography, My Part in a Changing World. In it she noted, “My thanks are due also to my secretaries, Miss Esther Knowles…
During the sixteenth to seventeenth century, the Ottoman Empire saw a change in its political dynamic as Imperial women began to influence the decisions of the Imperial court.[1] 1534-1683 is known as the ‘Sultanate of Women’ as Imperial women within…
Join us for the first seminar of our Spring series, featuring Dr. Jana Matuszak speaking on ‘Defining the Ideal Woman, 2000BCE: A Perspective from Sumerian Didactic Literature’! Wednesday, 12 January 2022 at 4pm GMT Register on Zoom here. ‘Defining the…