ANNOUNCEMENT: In solidarity with the University and College Union (UCU) strikes taking place across the UK, this seminar session has now been RESCHEDULED. Sign-ups are still open, but please stay tuned for the announcement of our rescheduled date. This seminar…
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News items of interest to WHN Members
Bodies of Evidence: Reflections on the Somatic Experience of Doing History – Sasha Rasmussen
Even as the discipline of history has come to terms with the subjectivities and positionality of its practitioners, the body of the historian remains fraught territory. Carolyn Steedman offers a rare glimpse of the embodied practice of history in her…
Spring 2022/23 Seminar Series
With some unforeseen delays, we are now absolutely pleased to be able to reveal our upcoming Spring Series Seminar Programme for the 2022/23 academic year! Featuring an exciting lineup of early career academics speaking on a wide variety of issues…
Lyrical Voices of Women in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century China – Yuemin He
The late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chinese society and its changing socio-cultural attitudes towards women’s literacy and female public presence in print media created a hybrid dynamic site of bargaining for learned women, where new cultural opportunities met old challenges of…
Join the Women’s History Network Steering Committee!
There are vacancies for a number of roles on the Women’s History Network Steering Committee. These are great opportunities to gain experience supporting the activities of the network. Full training and support will be given. The roles available are: Seminar…
Patssi Valdez & Chicana Feminism – Olivia Gill
For examples of Valdez’s art, see a recent online retrospective. A “Chicano” is ‘a Mexican-American with a non-Anglo image of himself’,[1] and Chicano culture is multilingual, multiracial, religious, and often involves urban street culture. Artist Patssi Valdez (1951-present) turned to…
‘‘They could but they weren’t encouraged to’: Class, gender and work in Portsmouth in the 1970s and 1980s’ – Mandy Wrenn
After a long career in financial services I wanted a change of direction and applied to study history in Portsmouth. One of my university modules covered the successes usually ascribed to Second Wave Feminism, namely gender equality legislation and a…
Wales’s Forgotten Pioneering Women Police Officers
2015 marked the centenary of the International Association of Women Police (IAWP), a professional network who celebrated at their conference in Cardiff, Wales that year. It was also the centenary of Edith Smith being sworn in as a constable in…
Disability and the Perpetually Unwell Woman in Late Victorian Medical Literature – by Lucy McCormick
‘Perfect health is a blessing to all, but it means even more to women than men.’[1] Eminent Victorian doctor Thomas Smith Clouston’s statement implied that women’s health limited them in a way that did not apply to men — a…