[ ... ] ‘The Gender of Europe’s Commercial Economy, 1200–1700’ Gender & History 20 (2008) pp. 519–538, argues for a much longer-term development, in ... more
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Gender and Difference III: Jews on the mind
@ 2008-01-25 – 20:20:43
One conclusion I drew from this year’s Gender and Medieval Studies conference was that I probably need (as a historian) to think about Jews more often … more -
Gender and difference II: Clerical masculinity and its discontents
@ 2008-01-20 – 22:33:27
One of the unusual things in the Gender and Difference in the Middle Ages conference was the number of sessions that it had on masculinity. Gender studies … more -
Gender and Difference I: Finding or imposing the queer?
@ 2008-01-17 – 21:41:57
I’m just back from the UK Gender and Medieval Studies Group conference (this year on Gender and Difference), which I found excellent. I want to try and … more -
You too, can have a kitchen like Gregoria's
@ 2007-12-10 – 13:32:04
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 … more -
Compulsory hexterosexuality?
@ 2007-11-02 – 22:24:25
I have just been severely put off an otherwise interesting book on medieval gender (Simon Gaunt, Gender and Genre in Medieval French Literature), by … more -
How bad are Bad Carolingian Women?
@ 2007-08-15 – 09:05:14
Anyone doing any work on women’s history or gender history in most periods has to find an approach to the phenomenon of the sources’ description of the … more -
Slash fiction and gender politics
@ 2007-03-29 – 08:42:25
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 … more -
Liberalism and segregation
@ 2007-02-11 – 21:17:51
I have recently got embroiled in a long argument at Crooked Timber (http://crookedtimber.org/2007/02/07/fathers-not-allowed) about discrimination at … more -
The invention of masculinity?
@ 2006-05-02 – 09:41:39
[ ... ] idea of gender as a creation of social contract theory in the seventeenth and eighteenth century (although the actual terminology only comes in ... more
