My first monograph, Jennifer Evans, Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in early modern England (Boydell & Brewer) was published on the 3 October in the Royal Historical Societies Studies in History series.
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News items of interest to WHN Members
End All Violence Against Women!
In some conflict situations, it may be more dangerous to be a girl or a woman than a soldier. Violence against women has become a real epidemic that must be stopped.
Yet we know how violence against women can be eliminated. In 1995, close to 20 years ago, 189 governments came together in Beijing. They adopted a Platform for Action that spelled out key strategies for governments, civil society, the private sector, international partners and all stakeholders to end violence against women, empower women, and achieve gender equality. In 2013, the UN Commission on the Status of Women further defined what needs to be done. This includes effective prevention strategies that address the root causes of gender inequality and the lower status of women in all spheres of life. Whether it is in the economy or in the political sphere, women continue to be disadvantaged and marginalized. Instead, we need families, communities and nations where women and men are equally valued and where women can participate fully.
2014 Community History Prize Winner
The Women’s History Network awarded the Community History Prize for the first time this year. It is sponsored by the History Press. Details of the impressive range of shortlisted entrants can be found at: http://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/womens-history-network. It was great to see…
Herstory – Women’s Liberation Halfway House
In 1974, a group of women formed the Women’s Liberation Halfway House (WLHH) in Victoria to provide support and accommodation for women and accompanying children fleeing from domestic and family violence. Forty years on, the need for high security refuge…
Women as Renegades – Fighting for Peace during War
The challenge women made to the establishment in rejecting the call to support the war is an area rich in history. It confirms that exploration of the reasons for women to take a stand that put them at odds not only with government but with women who sided with the war effort is esential for undertanding women’s activism during wartime.
Can We Talk? Gossip in American History and Culture
Rumor, hearsay, tittle-tattle, scuttlebutt, scandal, dirt. From mid-to-late 1600s colonial Virginia churchyards and New England courthouses to the early-twentieth-first-century blogosphere—and in many places and times in between—gossip has been called many things. It is one of the most common—and often…
Reading as Life Line: A Literary Mother from 11th Century Japan
“For we think back through our mothers, if we are women,” wrote Virginia Woolf in A Room of One’s Own, the book in which she reflected on women as writers and pondered the scarcity of women’s writing in world literary…
WHN September Newsletter
The WHN newsletter for September may be viewed by both members and non-members here.
IFRWH Newsletter July 2014
The International Federation for Research into Women’s History Newsletter can be viewed here: IFRWH Newsletter July 2014 The IFRWH was founded in 1987 to encourage and co-ordinate research in all aspects of women’s history at the international level, by promoting…