gender

IMC 4: my partial conversion to social physics from magistra 104 days old

[ ... ] intriguing gender differences here. Players are self-identified by gender in the game. Friendship networks for those identified as women are more ...

Pauline Fest 3: Constraints, violence and gender from magistra 154 days old

One of the stereotypes of gender history that the Pauline Stafford symposium in May knocked fairly firmly on the head was a supposed contrast between ...

Pauline Fest 2: gender, ideology and practice from magistra 165 days old

One of the issues that kept coming up implicitly at the recent Pauline Stafford symposium in the papers on gender and women's history was the relationship ...

Pauline Fest 1: is gender a useful tool? from magistra 172 days old

[ ... ] of why gender is a useful tool for historians, several of the papers provided ample evidence that considering it gives a whole new angle on ...

Women, office and role from magistra 218 days old

The last of the IHR Earlier Medieval Seminars for this term has already been blogged on, so here belatedly is the penultimate one, Charlotte Cartwright ...

History Matters 4: is there still a patriarchal system in the West? from magistra 241 days old

[ ... ] ‘The Gender of Europe’s Commercial Economy, 1200–1700’ Gender & History 20 (2008) pp. 519–538, argues for a much longer-term development, in ...

You too, can have a kitchen like Gregoria's from magistra 712 days old

Kate Cooper's new book on gender and Christianity in the late Roman empire, The Fall of the Roman Household has just been published. For Amazon's sponsored ...

Compulsory hexterosexuality? from magistra 749 days old

I have just been severely put off an otherwise interesting book on medieval gender (Simon Gaunt, Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature), by ...

Slash fiction and gender politics from magistra 968 days old

A discussion in the Guardian (http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,2044573,00.html) of a new film about a black gay romance mentioned ...

Liberalism and segregation from magistra 1013 days old

I have recently got embroiled in a long argument at Crooked Timber (http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/07/fathers-not-allowed) about discrimination at ...