Icelandic Women’s strike
Iceland is a Nordic island country located in the middle of the North Atlantic, which in the 1970s had a population of just over 200,000. Nowadays more than 300,000 …
Course: A Global History of Sex and Gender: Bodies and Power in the Modern World
Week 3 Learning Summary
Well done for finishing Week 3 of the course! We hope you have enjoyed learning about the complex and enmeshed histories of work and care in the modern world. It’s …
Feminist Perspectives on Work and How It Developed Over Time
Dr Hannah Telling This section provides an overview of feminist perspectives on work, how these debates have developed over time and intersected with other theoretical approaches, and how considerations of …
Female Relationships in the Italian Feminist Magazine Effe
Dr Penny Morris Effe, February 1973, November 1976, January 1976. Courtesy of Donata Francescato. The provocative image on the cover of the first issue of the Italian feminist magazine Effe, …
Week 1 learning summary
Well done for finishing week 1 of the course! It’s a good idea to take a moment to reflect on what you have learnt and consolidate your thoughts. This week …
Gender Order and Society
Studies reveal that each historical society has a different gender order or regime. We should also consider the role of Enlightenment science in constructing the notion of two, fundamentally opposite …
Preserving the gender order through postcards
Anti-suffrage postcards from the collection at Glasgow Women’s Library. Since the Enlightenment, maintaining two opposite genders has been presented as foundational to a stable society. As Alfred Lord Tennyson proclaimed: …
Global Reproductive Rights and Justice
Dr Maud Anne Bracke Doctor Frans Wong in his abortion clinic in Amsterdam, the Netherlands early 1970s Today’s notion of reproductive rights encompasses access to contraception, safe abortion, sexual education, …
Recovering Queer Lives
Mural of Marsha P. Johnson, Joseph Ratanski and Sylvia Rivera in 1973 by Gary LeGault The lesbian archive at Glasgow Women’s Library highlights the importance of foregrounding the voices and …
Sexology and the ‘Invention’ of Homosexuality
Dr Tanya Cheadle The confession, by Pietro Longhi, ca. 1750. Public domain In pre-modern societies, the work of interpreting and regulating sexual behaviour fell primarily to clergy, moralists and lawyers, …
Anne Lister: Modern History’s First Lesbian?
Dr Tanya Cheadle Portrait of Anne Lister (1791-1840), by Joshua Horner, ca. 1830 On Monday 29 January, 1821, Anne Lister, a gentlewoman who lived at Shibden Hall in Yorkshire, England, …
Scotland and the Heterosexual Revolution
Scholarship on the sexual revolution has tended to focus on cities such as London, Paris, New York and San Francisco. These were places with visible youth subcultures and where changes …
The Sexual Revolution of the 1960s and ‘70s
Dr Tanya Cheadle If we accept that sexuality is not a natural force that can be liberated or repressed, but rather a complex nexus of sexual behaviours and beliefs constructed …
Welcome to week 2
Welcome to Week 2 of the course! We hope you enjoyed learning about Gender and Power last week. You should now have a sense of how gender has been constructed …
Modernity, Sexuality and the Self
Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas, May 1893. Photograph by Gillman & Co. Public domain. Two common assumptions underpin our modern understanding of sexuality. The first is that …
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A Global History of Sex and Gender: Bodies and Power in the Modern World