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Blog, Politics, Women's History

Women, Law and Culture Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict

Dr Robin Joyce / July 2, 2017

Part 2 This excerpt repeats a small section of the introductory  comments, before concentrating on the detailed information about the contributions in Women, Law and Culture edited by Jocelynne A. Scutt. The linking paragraphs and explanatory material introducing the sections appeared…

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Blog, Politics, Women's History

Women, Law and Culture Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict

Dr Robin Joyce / June 25, 2017

Part 1 This excerpt from the introduction of Jocelynne A. Scutt’s Women, Law and Culture Conformity Contradiction and Conflict has been heavily edited to meet, as far as possible,  blog word count requirements. While the interconnecting pieces remain, description of…

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Biography, Blog, Women's History

History News Network Q&A FOR “A WARRIOR OF THE PEOPLE”

Dr Robin Joyce / December 18, 2016

The following interview has been made available to the WHN by Joe Starita and his publisher, St Martin’s Press, New York. It was prepared initially for the History News Network. WHN Admin.       Susan La Flesche is a…

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Biography, Blog, Politics, Women's History

EDITH MORLEY: THE FIRST FEMALE PROFESSOR IN BRITAIN

Dr Robin Joyce / December 11, 2016

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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Biography, Blog, Politics, Women's History

How Biblical Double Standards Killed Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Run

Dr Robin Joyce / November 27, 2016

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…

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Biography, Blog, Women's History

A WARRIOR OF THE PEOPLE: Part 2

Dr Robin Joyce / November 20, 2016

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.…

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Biography, Blog, Women's History

A WARRIOR OF THE PEOPLE: Part 1

Dr Robin Joyce / November 18, 2016

  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…

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Call for participants: Women at university in the 1960s and 70s

Dr Robin Joyce / July 27, 2016

Bethany White, researcher     My name is Bethany White and I am a doctoral student in History at Oxford University. My research focuses on working-class women’s experiences of higher education between 1965 and 1975.   I am looking for…

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Blog, General

How far have women progressed in the UK construction industry?

Dr Robin Joyce / July 10, 2016

  Owen Goodhead, MD of Randstad Construction, Property & Engineering, which provides permanent and temporary recruitment solutions for the construction, property and engineering sectors.   It wasn’t so long ago that seeing a woman on a building site would have…

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The Women’s History Network is a national association and charity for the promotion of women’s history and the encouragement of women and men interested in women’s history. Following our establishment in 1991 we have grown year by year and today we are a UK national charity with members including working historians, researchers, independent scholars, teachers, librarians, and many other individuals both within academia and beyond. Indeed, the network reaches out...

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  • To celebrate Women’s History Month, the Women’s History Network are hosting two panel discussions aimed to explore and understand the journey of bringing women’s histories into the public sphere.
  • UPDATE: Call for Papers, ‘Women in Sport’, Saturday, 6 November 2021
  • ‘Make Room for Motherhood: American Post-Suffrage Feminism and the Unpublished Articles of Crystal Eastman’ with Amy Aronson on 13 January 2021
  • Christmas Book Club Special: Pandora’s Jar, Women in the Greek Myths with Natalie Haynes 4 pm on 16 December
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