There are so many delights waiting for us in the new Women's Studies Group seminar programme. If you love women's history, please do take a look at the papers on offer. And now is a great time to join the group (there are a lot of benefits, it's great value!) womensstudiesgroup.org/seminars/
2024 – 2025 programme The group has two kinds of meeting for seminars. In-person seminar meetings. These take place at the Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AZ, UK, on Saturday afternoons. ...
Is there book history bluesky? This Jane Austen printing block — would it have been used for ads for the book? (Carey & Lea 1832, Pride & Prejudice)
If you haven't already discovered the Early Modern Female Book Ownership blog by @martinevanelk.bsky.social#HerBook
Today on the blog, in a meticulously argued post, Joe Black discusses two books almost certainly owned by Aphra Behn, the second of which has hardly ever been noted in scholarship buff.ly/4dp08CK #HerBook
Only one surviving book has so far been identified as belonging to the poet, playwright, proto-novelist, translator, and spy Aphra Behn (1640-89), a copy of Thomas Killigrew’s Comedies and Tragedies (...
I'm creating a free PDF resource for academics and authors interested in women's studies: a compendium of wonderful work on women's art, history and literature. Can you recommend good podcasts/blogs/databases? Or relevant societies/orgs? If so, please let me know! Thank you so much! #WomensHistory
For all those that are looking for a history of medicine/history of sex podcast look no further! I had a great time talking to Jessica about my latest book published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social
New podcast episode out now! This week, I talk to @HistorianJen.bsky.social about men’s sexual health in the 17th century—everything from kidney stones and aphrodisiacs to syphilis and genital gangrene. Yes, *genital gangrene* #history🗃️ https://open.spotify.com/episode/0zsu3SLMA7VcYdFHw4bzc4
Listen to this episode from Dirty Sexy History on Spotify. In seventeenth-century England, seeing a doctor was a big deal. Before the NHS, people paid doctors, quacks, and even astrological medical pr...
How joyous is this? A perfect choice for a grey January morning.
You do share some beautiful photos - I love this!
Every semester I talk w/my students about the power of citation - it's not just ticking a box or giving appropriate credit, it's also a form of politics + poetics, a way of entering conversations you want to be part of, of making community, and it's its own form of writing.
The past few weeks’ discourse reinforces for me the value of framing citation as an ethical commitment and aesthetic / poetic opportunity — rather than merely a bureaucratic obligation and clerical practice
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A feed of & for feminists & women academics: "Feminist Scholars" AKA #FeministSky. It collects skeets with keywords ie: feminism, patriarchy, suffrage, intersectional, LGBTQ, Trans... & some theorists ie:de Beauvoir, Cixious, Kristeva, Irigaray, Haraway... &♀️women scholars. 📌 or ask to be added!
