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Nemone Lethbridge’s play Baby Blues on BBC television: maternal mental illness narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain Women's History Review Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Fabiola Creed
In December 1973, the BBC aired Nemone Lethbridge’s auto-fictional play Baby Blues as one of their influential ‘Play for Today’ (PfT) series (1970–1984). This article explores the impact of Lethbri...
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Between feminism and partisanship: the rise and decline of the women’s movement in Belize, 1975–1993 Women's History Review Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Rachel Brunot, Joel Wainwright
This paper examines the historical trajectory of the women’s movement in Belize, focusing on a critical period (1975–1993). We draw upon original sources from archival research coupled with intervi...
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Non-elite women’s networks across the early modern world Women's History Review Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Eliska Bujokova
Published in Women's History Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Surgery and salvation: the roots of reproductive injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940 Women's History Review Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Rebecca Ogden
Published in Women's History Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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The women who made modern economics Women's History Review Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Paula Bartley
Published in Women's History Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Maternity care and infrastructures in Spain during Franco's regime Women's History Review Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Dolores Ruiz-Berdún, Jerònia Pons-Pons
Over the last century, Western countries have undergone a process of medicalisation and hospitalisation of childbirth. This process led to the subordination of midwives to doctors’ authority and ma...
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Bringing life to Aberdeen: a history of maternity and neonatal services Women's History Review Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Sarah Pedersen
Published in Women's History Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Women as concordia seekers in Ancient Rome: gender discourses and propaganda ideology (second-first centuries BC) Women's History Review Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Carmen María Ruiz Vivas
Concordia was a moral tool for the regulation of conflicts and the maintenance of order within the ancient Roman family. This paper focuses on the relationship that Roman ideology established betwe...
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Remembering Jalna Hanmer (1931–2023) Women's History Review Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Sandra McNeil
This obituary recalls the life of the feminist activist and academic Jalna Hanmer (1931–2023) who campaigned to end male violence against women and to improve the attitude of the police when dealin...
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Women and the miners’ strike, 1984–1985 Women's History Review Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Helen McCarthy
Published in Women's History Review (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2024)
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Emotions in the making: sexual violence in the Japanese empire, 1937–1945 Women's History Review Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Ming Gao
This article applies the history of emotions lens to study the emotions experienced by the ‘comfort women’ in the Japanese Empire. Emotions have been a long-neglected aspect in the study of militar...
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‘Ladies, use your needles in the cause of bleeding humanity’: emotion and needlework in the antislavery fair Women's History Review Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Stephanie J. Richmond
In the early nineteenth century, women antislavery activists participated in charitable fundraisers by hosting and donating items for fairs. Fairs have long been seen as a site of women’s economic ...
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Behind the scenes: women in the Eichmann trial Women's History Review Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Sharon Geva
The trial of the Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann (1961), a significant event in the Holocaust commemoration history, was organised and managed by men. The three judges, the prosecutors, and the defenc...
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Gender inequality and the Irish Revolution: the girls of Na Fianna Éireann, 1911–22 Women's History Review Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Marnie Hay
Girls have been overlooked or under-considered within the historiography of Na Fianna Éireann, the Irish nationalist youth organisation co-founded by Countess Markievicz in 1909 as an alternative t...
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In her hands: women’s fight against AIDS in the United States Women's History Review Pub Date : 2024-01-09 George J. Severs
Published in Women's History Review (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2024)
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‘It is because we could not write that it came to you’: women's history in testimonial narratives of resistance Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Romita Choudhury
For feminist historiography, polyphonic women's testimonials of resistance struggles present several critical questions, most importantly about the mediating role of the feminist intellectuals who ...
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‘The stinking whirlpool of abuse and ignorance’: the marginalisation of sex workers in Ireland, c.1975–1985 Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Charlotte Forrest
This article explores the lives of sex workers in late twentieth-century Ireland. In 1979, at least 98 women worked in one small area of Dublin alone, and in 1980 many of them helped Jim Finucane T...
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Portraits and Poses: Female Intellectual Authority, Agency and Authorship in Early Modern Europe Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Mineke Bosch
Published in Women's History Review (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2024)
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Black female intellectuals in nineteenth century America, born to bloom unseen? Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Fatma Ramdani
Published in Women's History Review (Vol. 33, No. 2, 2024)
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Living with other women’s lives: ‘research resonance’ in the context of life history interviewing Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Luciana Lang, Laura Fenton, Penny Tinkler
This article reflects on the ways researchers are affected by their engagement with the stories they encounter in research. It proposes the notion of ‘research resonance’ to capture the experience ...
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‘The voice of the true British housewife’: the politics of housewifery at Labour’s women’s conferences, 1945–1959 Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Lyndsey Jenkins
Drawing on the records of Labour’s annual women’s conference, this article analyses why, how and with what effects women activists in the Labour Party claimed to represent ‘the housewife’ in post-w...
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International Women’s Year and women’s activism: a comparative look at Poland and Spain Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Natalia Jarska
This paper provides a comparative study of the impact of the 1975 International Women’s Year (IWY) on women’s activism in two non-democratic European countries: Spain and Poland. Intended by the Un...
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1975-1985: a catalyst for Global South-oriented advocacy by Dutch feminists Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Ireen Dubel
The article discusses the significance of the International Women's Year (IWY) and the United Nations (UN) Decade for Women for the development of Global South-oriented advocacy by feminists in the...
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Women’s activism and state policies during International Women’s Year and the United Nations decade for women: a comparative perspective Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Natalia Jarska
Published in Women's History Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Professionalisation of home economists in Britain from the 1950s to the 1980s: mediating small domestic electrical appliances Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Susan Bailey
This article explores the role of home economists from the 1950s until the 1980s in relation to small domestic electrical appliances when home economists promoted these small electrical products an...
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‘I was utterly at my husband’s mercy’: voices from the Women’s Co-operative Guild, 1910–1914 Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Ruth Cohen
This article uses the Women’s Co-operative Guild’s evidence to the 1912 Royal Commission on divorce to explore working-class women’s views about, and experiences of, marriage and divorce in the ear...
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Using women’s memories of food in intercultural households to locate female agency and evolving cultural identities in Leicester, England, 1960–1995 Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-10-22 Sue Zeleny Bishop
Using the oral life-histories of women who were in long-term heterosexual intercultural romantic relationships, the article examines the food preparation and consumption practices of their intercul...
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‘My how I have walked and worked to get those names’: Petitioning and the Women's Suffrage Movement in the United States, 1908–1920. Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Timothy Verhoeven
This article analyses the evolution of mass petitioning within the woman suffrage movement in the United States, with a focus on the decade leading up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment (192...
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Homes, food and domesticity: rethinking the housewife in twentieth century Britain Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Maggie Andrews, Janis Lomas, Anna Muggeridge
Published in Women's History Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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‘Work in the Housewives’ Service, like that of a household, seems never to be done’: the ‘practical politics’ of the Women’s Voluntary Service in the Second World War Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Anna Muggeridge
The Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS) was established in 1938, to encourage women into civil defence ahead of the anticipated conflict. Once war began, it quickly expanded, with members engaging in a...
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Anne Knight (1786–1862) and the fight for women’s suffrage in the 1840s: political activism and multiple tactics Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Tien-Yuan Chen
Since the 1980s, British feminist advocate Anne Knight has been acknowledged for her pioneering role in women’s suffrage propaganda. This article aims to rectify misinterpretations regarding Knight...
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Ireland’s New Traditionalists: Fianna Fáil republicanism and gender, 1926–1938 Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Jennifer Redmond
Published in Women's History Review (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2024)
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The translation of women within the context of the Ottoman-Turkish women’s movement (1868–1935) Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Safiye Gül Avcı Solmaz, Ayşe Banu Karadağ
ABSTRACT The Ottoman Muslim and Turkish women’s movement provides a unique study field for researchers to follow the traces of women’s change and the reconstruction of gender roles during the modernisation process initiated in the Ottoman Empire and continued in the transition period from a centuries-old empire to a nation-state, the Turkish Republic. It also sets a perfect example in terms of demonstrating
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Fearless women: feminist patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Ahmed Nabil Bensedik
Published in Women's History Review (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2024)
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Redress: Ireland’s institutions and transitional justice Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Kate Gibson
Published in Women's History Review (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2024)
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Between sacrifice and duty. The changing image of the Polish Mother-Patriot and evolution of women’s national agenda in the Province of Posen at the turn of the twentieth century Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-09-02 Joanna Morawska-Tołek
ABSTRACT One of the consequences of depriving the Polish population of its own sovereign state in 1795 was that women were now tasked with fulfilling a ‘patriotic mission’. It was to constitute their contribution to culture and, in the long run, to winning back an independent nation. That was when the figure of the Polish Mother-Patriot became the role model, which throughout the nineteenth century
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Reflections on women’s activism in twentieth-century Britain Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Paula Bartley
ABSTRACT This article is based on a talk I gave at the London School of Economics in March 2023. The talk was structured in a way to give me the freedom to reflect upon some of the key themes in my book Women’s Activism in Twentith Century Britain; making a difference across the political spectrum. I wrote the book during the pandemic. Archives were closed and even when they opened I could not use
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The women’s refuge as ‘homeplace’: Black and Asian women’s refuges in Britain as spaces of community and resistance (1980–2000) Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Charlotte James Robertson
ABSTRACT Black Feminist theorist bell hooks has written of the way in which Black women construct ‘homeplaces’ as ‘spaces of care and nurturance in the face of the brutal harsh reality of racist oppression.’ But what happens when the home is not a place of safety for Black women? Beginning in the late 1970s, groups of Black women in Britain began to establish women’s refuges designed to meet the needs
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The Patriarchs: the origins of inequality Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Merry Wiesner-Hanks, Bob Pierik, Padma Anagol
Published in Women's History Review (Vol. 32, No. 7, 2023)
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Mrs Pankhurst’s bodyguard: on the trail of ‘Kitty’ Marshall and the met police ‘Cats’ Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Maureen Wright
Published in Women's History Review (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2024)
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The representation of women in ZANU and ZAPU propaganda during the Zimbabwe War of Liberation Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Hugh Pattenden
ABSTRACT This article considers the ways in which women were presented in the propaganda of ZANU and ZAPU during the conflict in Rhodesia. In doing this it seeks to build upon existing studies of women, however with a greater focus upon the media output of the nationalist organisations than has previously been the case. In doing so, it shows how ZANU and ZAPU sought to use the experiences of women
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Contentious catalysts: beguines, place, and identity in late medieval Mainz Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Lucy C. Barnhouse
ABSTRACT The identities and roles of women known as beguines in late medieval Europe have long been the subject of scholarly debate. Classic studies argued that beguines troubled a binary of heretical and orthodox movements, and that they were the object of clerical and lay suspicion. Recent work on medieval religious women has done much to enrich understandings of how diverse their roles could be
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Illegitimacy: family & stigma in England, 1660–1834 Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Sarah Fox
Published in Women's History Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Left Feminisms: Conversations on the personal and political Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Rachel Collett
Published in Women's History Review (Vol. 32, No. 6, 2023)
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Women’s activism in twentieth-century Britain: making a difference across the political spectrum Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Amy Longmuir
Published in Women's History Review (Vol. 33, No. 1, 2024)
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Female political facilitators: a case study of post-Napoleonic Rome Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Geoffrey Hicks
ABSTRACT This article presents a case study of the way in which elite women in informal social networks could facilitate political contacts and discourse in a manner that does not accord with existing typologies. Focusing upon exile society in post-Napoleonic Rome, it describes this group of women as political ‘facilitators’. After considering the nature of the society and the network of women at the
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Women's participation and social demands in the Italian 1960s: the case study of the National Council of Italian Women Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Michele Santoro
ABSTRACT The National Council of Italian Women (CNDI) was an internationally-oriented confederation of women's associations founded in Rome in 1903, which was affiliated with the International Council of Women (ICW). Previous studies on the Italian Council have considered its origins and the biographical aspects of its members in the first half of twentieth-century Italy, while the Council developments
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‘The thin edge of the wedge’? Tea-shop waitresses, the British press and the women’s suffrage movement Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-07-08 Rosalind Eyben
ABSTRACT Whereas during the great labour unrest before the First World War, militant suffragists (suffragettes) sometimes addressed rallies of striking women workers, an earlier strike by waitresses in a Piccadilly tea-shop was exceptional for their hands-on support. That strike and its consequences is the focus of this article that uses digitised press archives to consider the working lives of tea-shop
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Contraception and modern Ireland: a social history, c. 1922-92 Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-07-06 Maria Luddy
Published in Women's History Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Women in STEM in Higher Educations: Good practices of attraction, access, and retainment in higher education Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-07-02 Rahmat Kusharyadi, Husnul Khatimah Rusyid, Erika Y. S. Siahaan
Published in Women's History Review (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The marriage question: George Eliot’s double life Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Debbie Parker Kinch
Published in Women's History Review (Vol. 32, No. 5, 2023)
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Women, media, and power in Indonesia Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Ni Komang Ariani
Published in Women's History Review (Vol. 32, No. 5, 2023)
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Julia Wedgwood, a Victorian feminist and female intellectual. Who was she and why has she been forgotten? Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Sue Brown
Julia Wedgwood (1833–1913) was a non-fiction writer who chose an unusually wide range of subjects, including theology, the Classical world and German Biblical criticism. She was also a leading femi...
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Voices of women in the global south: Tricontinental magazine and the new feminist narrative (1967-2018) Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Alberto García Molinero, Teresa María Ortega López
ABSTRACT This article examines how the emergence of new subaltern subjects, imbued with revolutionary ideals like anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism, within the framework of the second wave of feminism, deepened the breach in the monolithic, homogenising model of femaleness constructed around a base with deeply Eurocentric roots. Tricontinental magazine, a groundbreaking publication in the dissemination
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Apartheid’s ‘rape crisis’: understanding and addressing sexual violence in South Africa, 1970s–1990s Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Emily Bridger
Although rape in South Africa today is commonly framed as a post-apartheid ‘crisis’, neither sexual violence nor public concern about it in the country is new. This article explores an earlier peri...
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Oral history as an analytical tool: Eve Mahlab and the Australian Trailblazing Women Law Project Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Kim Rubenstein, Anne Isaac
This article adds to a growing body of literature that aims to correct the traditional lack of attention to the role of women lawyers who have exercised their power as active citizens by participat...
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Building alternative archives. A reappraisal of Dwelling in the Archive by Antoinette Burton Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Kirsten Kamphuis
In 2003 Antoinette Burton, a leading feminist historian of the British empire, published her book Dwelling in the Archive. Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India. In this wor...
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The ambivalent faces of domestic queens: gender, power, and political crisis in the nineteenth century Iberian Peninsula Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-06-04 David San Narciso
In the mid-nineteenth century, three reigning queens ruled their countries: Victoria in England, Maria II in Portugal, and Isabel II in Spain. These were three women who had to assume political pow...
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Rape revisited: Joanna Bourke reflects on historicizing sexual violence, in conversation with Ruth Beecher Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Ruth Beecher
Published in Women's History Review (Vol. 32, No. 7, 2023)
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Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann’s exile years in Turkey, 1935–1950: a biographical and gendered approach to migration history Women's History Review Pub Date : 2023-05-27 Nazan Maksudyan
Erna Eckstein-Schlossmann (1895–1998) and Albert Eckstein (1891–1950), a pediatrician couple from Düsseldorf, had to hand in their official resignations after being declared as ‘Jews’ according to ...