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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …