[ ... ] care about gender (in contrast to Turgot of St Andrews, who wrote the Life of St Margaret for Matilda, and who seems to have thought of Margaret as ... more
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Why cultural history? 1: History and political agendas
@ 2012-06-24 – 09:03:56
In a recent post on gender history Jon Jarrett was referring to a question that Guy Halsall raised a few years ago: does every form of history nowadays … more -
Beating blog block: What do mutants do all day?
@ 2011-09-09 – 07:48:48
The recent hiatus on this blog is due to having a complete writer’s block re proper blogging of medieval papers/seminars. To try and get round this, … more -
Gender, politics and history
@ 2011-07-24 – 20:55:29
[ ... ] book: that gender is socially constructed (masculinity and femininity have no innate characteristics but vary vastly between societies), and that ... more -
Masculinity and gender asymmetry
@ 2011-05-24 – 14:36:36
The index to my forthcoming book is now finished, but compiling it gave an interesting insight into how asymmetric any discussion of gender inevitably … more -
IMC 4: my partial conversion to social physics
@ 2009-08-09 – 12:47:38
[ ... ] intriguing gender differences here. Players are self-identified by gender in the game. Friendship networks for those identified as women are more ... more -
Pauline Fest 3: Constraints, violence and gender
@ 2009-06-20 – 09:17:13
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 … more -
Pauline Fest 2: gender, ideology and practice
@ 2009-06-09 – 14:14:02
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 … more -
Pauline Fest 1: is gender a useful tool?
@ 2009-06-02 – 15:25:29
[ ... ] 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 ... more -
Women, office and role
@ 2009-04-16 – 23:39:32
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 … more
