Journal of Women's History

“(I)n 1929, Helene Stock described the production and distribution of the magazines as a political and even humanitarian act: “I call on all women: commit yourself to a serious deed. Don’t just pursue your own pleasure while thousands of our sisters suffer in muffled despair. Help with enlightenment.”” “The Book Was a Revelation, I Recognized Myself in it” Lesbian Sexuality, Censorship, and the Queer Press in Weimar-era Germany Laurie Marhoefer Journal of Women’s History Volume 27, Number 2, Summer 2015 Read free thru 31 October 2025

Laurie Marhoefer delves into the impacts of the queer press and censorship in Weimar Germany, revealing that print media is historically key to self-discovery and finding community

Read free in @jwomenshistory.bsky.social at @ProjectMUSE

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Delighted to see Sex in an Old Regime City reviewed here very generously with John Christopoulos on Abortion in EM Italy and Karen Harvey on the Imposteress Rabbit Breeder (Mary Toft - one of my favorites) by @ninakushner.bsky.social

This is my all-stars round: solid celebrity status articles, beautiful research

& @ninakushner.bsky.social ' s great review of, among others, @juliehardwick.bsky.social 's great book!

Very cool!

🗃️Open-Access Alert #3: The ENTIRE Spring 2024 Issue of the JWH is open access. See Bonnie G. Smith's remembrance of Natalie Z. Davis, articles by Mytheli Sreenivas, Iris Berger, Michelle Arrow, Mary Louise Roberts, Tamika Nunley, María Martín Gómez, and Frances Luttikhuizen: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52077

🗃️View the article here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

2/"This article examines the IWY from the vantage point of Ghana.... We locate Ghanaians’ engagements with the IWY in a longer trajectory of historically contingent and competing claims to know, organize, and represent women."

🗃️1/Open-Access Alert #2: Skinner, Salifu, and Ampofo's “'The Right Type of Woman . . . at the Policy Making Level': The International Women’s Year and Representational Struggles in Ghana" is open-access for 1 month:
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🗃️Open-Access Alert: Annalise DeVries's "Liberty, Honor, and Controlling Reproduction: What Honor and Shame Practices Teach Us About Roe v. Wade" is open access for one month! See how "questions about honor and shame practices...shed fresh light on American family planning jurisprudence."

🗃️The Fall Issue of the JWH features articles by Annalise DeVries; Kate Skinner, Jovia Salifu, and Akosua Adomako Ampofo; Tiana U. Wilson; Christina Simmons; Aleksandra Jakubczak; and Bin Yang. See book review essays by Laurel Forster and Jessie Hewitt. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55423

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Journal of Women's History Volume 37, Number 3, Fall 2025 https://tinyurl.com/4drsdh4c 
CONTRIBUTORS Jennifer J. Davis Sandie Holguín
 Annalise DeVries
 Kate Skinner 
Jovia Salifu
 Akosua Adomako Ampofo
 Tiana U. Wilson
 Christina Simmons
 Aleksandra Jakubczak 
Bin Yang 
Laurel Forster 
Jessie Hewitt

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Journal of Women's History
Volume 37, Number 3, Fall 2025
tinyurl.com/4drsdh4c


CONTRIBUTORS
Jennifer J. Davis
Sandie Holguín

Annalise DeVries

Kate Skinner

Jovia Salifu

Akosua Adomako Ampofo

Tiana U. Wilson

Christina Simmons

Aleksandra Jakubczak
and more!

🗃️The Fall Issue of the JWH is out early! Look at our TOC and assign our articles to your students. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55423

When I saw Marissa J. Spears' article about the women in Baltimore's Black Panther party in the new @jwomenshistory.bsky.social , I knew I had to talk about it on the podcast, and I sure learned a lot

🗃️Where can you read articles by Luis R. Corteguera, Irene Olivares, Margrethe Birkler, Marissa J. Spear, Da In Choi, Elizabeth Fraterrigo, and Emily Macgillivray, and book review essays by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Elyssa Ford? In the latest issue of the JWH--that's where! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54920

🗃️The JWH Summer issue is out! For the TOC, go here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54920. See articles about kings as mothers, queer women and queer spaces in monastic communities of Late Antiquity Egypt, women in Baltimore's Black Panther Party, women's domestic servitude in postwar South Korea, (continued)...

🗃️ The Summer Issue of the JWH is out! Read about our commitment to foreground women's history in these times of erasure and the editors' summary of its contents here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

🗃️Where can you read articles by Luis R. Corteguera, Irene Olivares, Margrethe Birkler, Marissa J. Spear, Da In Choi, Elizabeth Fraterrigo, and Emily Macgillivray, and book review essays by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu and Elyssa Ford? In the latest issue of the JWH--that's where! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54920

🗃️ 2/....Women's responses to Betty Friedan's critiques of television in TV Guide, and restoring Indigenous women to the history of slavery in Canada. Also, read about new works on the US West and queer history in our two book review essays.

🗃️The JWH Summer issue is out! For the TOC, go here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54920. See articles about kings as mothers, queer women and queer spaces in monastic communities of Late Antiquity Egypt, women in Baltimore's Black Panther Party, women's domestic servitude in postwar South Korea, (continued)...

🗃️ The Summer Issue of the JWH is out! Read about our commitment to foreground women's history in these times of erasure and the editors' summary of its contents here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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@jwomenshistory.bsky.social welcomes applications for 2025 Scholars Research Grants to support travel, research, or writing in women's and gender history. Deadline 23 May 25. 🗃️

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🗃️Research Grant Announcement from the JWH. See details below:

🗃️ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS : “GLOBAL HISTORIES OF GENDER AND OLD AGE,” A Special Issue for the Journal of Women’s History

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🗃️The Spring 2025 Special Issue on Global Histories of Menstruation and Menopause is out! Check it out here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54321 More detailed info. in the next few days.

Honored to be a part of this special issue, out now! What a way to start women’s history month.