Feminism and ‘race’
In this video, Dr Peggy Brunache of the University of Glasgow will introduce aspects of how feminist movements have approached and thought about the question of race. She will focus …
Course: A Global History of Sex and Gender: Bodies and Power in the Modern World
Introduction to week 4
My name is Maud Anne Bracke and I am a Reader in Modern European history at the University of Glasgow and co-Director of the Centre for Gender History. I will …
How cultural feminism challenged social roles that were based on gender
The term ‘Cultural Feminism’ emerged in the early 1970s amidst the women’s liberation movement, and championed a range of political aims, critical platforms and approaches. Its advocates problematised the cultural …
Suffrage: National and transnational
Dr James Keating, University of New South Wales The history of women’s political rights and women’s citizenship is further explored in our next contribution by Dr James Keating of the …
Social Class and Gender Oppression
Different strands of feminist politics have focused on the intersections of class and gender oppression. While socialist feminism, going back to the early 19th century, has linked the liberation of …
Feminism and Sexuality: LGBT Activism in the UK and the US in the Long 1970s
The histories of feminism and LGBT politics have been intertwined in the western world at least since the 1960s. Both emerged as radical, broadly based social movements amidst the …
Summary of week 4 and of the course
Dr Tanya Cheadle, Dr Hannah Telling, Dr Maud Bracke Over the past week, we have looked at the different meanings of feminist politics. We explored intersections between gender-based inequality and …
Women’s Work: Knitting in Shetland, 1800-2000
In this video, Professor Lynn Abrams discusses gender and women’s work through a case study of kitting in the Shetland Isles, 1800-2000. Lynn explores the importance of knitting within the …
Parenting, Care & Kinship in the Early Modern World
In this video, Eliska Bujokova, a PhD researcher at the University of Glasgow, explores the gendering of care provision and childcare in eighteenth-century London. When we think of care provision, …
Women & Work in early modern Scotland
In this video, Dr Rebecca Mason discusses the working lives of women in early modern Scotland, showing how work in the past was an intrinsic part of women’s lives. By …
Introduction to the week
We hope you enjoyed learning about Sex and Intimacy last week! You should now have an understanding of how our bodies and desires have been understood and regulated in past …
Blended Families and Childcare in Early Modern Scotland
Dr Rebecca Mason The nuclear family – consisting of two parents married to each other with biological children – has been privileged for the past century as the normative ordering …
Gender and Mothering in West Africa
Broadening the scope of historical analyses of gender and care beyond European or American contexts highlights that the nature of caring structures and gendered work in the Western world …
The Gendered Division of Care
Dr Hannah Telling J. Thompson, after D. Wilkie, ‘A female servant holds a small child whilst its fashionably dressed mother touches its face on her way out’, (1840). Credit: Wellcome …
The gendered value of work
Moulinex, Cormelles-le-Royal, France, 1965. Archives du Calvados 2003 JP 1058 2160. © Direction des Archives du Calvados. Dr Jackie Clarke Distinctions between women’s work and men’s work are often represented …
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A Global History of Sex and Gender: Bodies and Power in the Modern World