25th May 2022 with Genevieve Caulfield and Dr Katherine Weikert, a duet focusing on Medieval Women’s History Join us for this duet focusing on the Medieval in our Summer Series, featuring PhD Candidate Genevieve Caulfield, with the paper titled: ‘”Styles…
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Conference Report: Historians of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland (H-WRBI) 2017 Annual Conference
CONFERENCE REPORT: HISTORIANS OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND (H-WRBI) 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Bridget Harrison and Alison More The annual History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland conference was organised by the H-WRBI (historyofwomenreligious.org) and was held…
WOMEN, LAW AND CULTURE Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict
Part 3 of the excerpt from Jocelynne A. Scutt’s Women, Law and Culture covers parts 2 and 3 of the contributions to the book. WHN Admin PART II – SPACE & PLACE Karen Buczynski-Lee addresses this question in culture and…
Women, Law and Culture Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict
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…
Women, Law and Culture Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict
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…
How Biblical Double Standards Killed Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Run
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…
Catherine was the original breaker of the glass ceiling
WHN Admin. Shelley Emling, a senior editor at The Huffington Post, has provided the following questions and responses that highlight some of the issues associated with her biography of Catherine of Siena. Catherine went years without eating scarcely anything. Today, many would say she…
Catherine was the original breaker of the glass ceiling
WHN Admin. Part 2 of Setting the World on Fire provides a brief insight into Catherine’s spiritual initiation, unfortunately the material which puts this into the context of the spiritual history of the time and the Catholic church has had to…
Catherine was the original breaker of the glass ceiling
WHN Administration The title and following quotes and excerpts from Chapter 2 (to be published as Part 2) are from Setting the World on Fire The brief astonishing life of Catherine of Siena by Shelley Embling. Part 1…