James Keating

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit.

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Another reprint of 'Two Hundred and Fifty Ways to Start an Essay about Captain Cook'! Pick up a copy of Alice Te Punga Somerville's bestselling Text in bookshops now.

www.bwb.co.nz/books/two-hund... #BWBTexts

Painted portrait of a white woman, upper half facing forwards in a red top, hair tied back, against a dark background

Welsh artist Gwen John, Self Portrait, 1902 #womensart

Amplifying voices New Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish

Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org

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Unexpectedly seeing your name on the feed amongst a stellar lineup rules.

My piece with @drdrehistorian.bsky.social in here is maybe frozen in 2021 in some ways but I will forever stand by the underlying principle that history as a discipline has a real problem with embodiment it won't face up to.

Grab a ☕ and revisit a History Australia Collection!
History in practice: Trove Special Section.
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Eight great articles from 18(4) 2021.

Nice one, congratulations!

I have an essay in it on the political pen of the socialist intellectual Beatrice Webb, which explores how elite women used writing to assert expertise - purposefully, artfully, and never without cost.

Suffragists picketing for the vote.

The conflation of political activism with marches and rallies is problematic flattening history into simple progress narratives and oversimplifying the work of scholars. This limits the vision of modern-day organizers. Let's complicate our understanding of social movement history.🧵

#sschat 🗃️

25/7/1988, The Go-Betweens📸Steve Pyke

Reconsidering Violence Against Women through the History of a Refuge for Trans Women Abstract. Both right-wing forces and gender-critical feminists currently frame cis and trans women’s needs as fundamentally different and conflicting. Viol

Here, for @historyworkshop.org.uk I discuss the history of a refuge for trans women.

I show women’s shared experiences of violence across the spectrum of cis and trans.

I highlight histories of solidarity against male violence by feminists and trans women.

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typewritten letter from vera douie in 1965

centenary of Women's Library @lselibrary.bsky.social
first Librarian, Vera Douie. Readers sent letters for items to be posted and researched. Vera made a copy & filed it
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De...
@lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social

I've been in organisations where older members were incredibly annoyed at my cohort's lack of attendance on week nights etc. and it took me a while to work out men in their cohort were allowed, and expected, to just abandon spouses and children at home

It's out! This new article by me and my wonderful collaborator Charlotte Ann Legg looks at race, labour and affinities of whiteness in New Caledonia and Australia around the time of the White Australia policy. Part of our special issue on Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain & the Pacific🗃️

I had serious plans to write one a few years ago, but the project ultimately took me in other directions. Still a big interest of mine as a reader and writer ...

Landmark History! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘This is where it all started’: Nina Simone’s childhood home gets long-awaited rehabilitation North Carolina home preserved to commemorate legendary musician and civil rights activist, and to serve as arts hub

a piece of good news to cleanse your timeline

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all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Publication day! My article on how to read an 18C newspapers, on digital remediation, and on the unfree press out in the world. Thanks @andy-schocket.bsky.social @historymatterssyd.bsky.social & M. Karrs for making it all possible. @universitypress.cambridge.org
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A People's Congress What insights can feminists gain from revisiting the 1975 World Congress for International Women’s Year in East Berlin?

What insights can feminists gain from revisiting the 1975 World Congress for International Women's Year?

Natali Moreira explores this overlooked event using the Women of the Whole World journal archived at @fotwl.bsky.social 🗃️✊

‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library - Research Professional News Humanities researchers suffer amid “agonisingly slow” recovery from 2023 cyberattack, as strikes cause further delays

‘No one seems to care’: scholars decry plight of British Library

Historian Peter Mandler said it was “a sorry state when a major piece of public infrastructure like this is hit so badly and no one in authority even seems to notice, much less care”.

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Front page of Identifying Precarious Victorian Oral History Collections Project Final Report. Includes images of VHS tape, cassette tape, floppy disks and magnetic tape.

If you're interested in learning more about the existence and condition of precarious oral history collections in Victoria, check out our newly released Report & Online Database!
precariousoralhistories.com/project-outp...

Boots on the ground Dunedin grew rapidly during the early 1860s. This watercolour was painted at this time by Walter Scarlett Hatton and shows substantial buildings...

Read an extract from Charlotte Macdonald's new book, 'Garrison World: Redcoat Soldiers in New Zealand and across the British Empire', in the ODT!

Pick up a copy of 'Garrison World' today from your local bookshop or through the BWB website.

www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/maga...

Pregnant Women’s Sexuality in Early Modern England This book provides the first history of pregnant women’s sexuality in England from the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries.

It is exciting to announce that my first book has just been published with Palgrave!

Pregnant Women’s Sexuality explores ideas and practices about pregnant women’s sex in early modern England and European medicine ✨

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#history #histofsex

“The character of *the reader* is a strange and curious one. While being entirely individual and with his or her own reactions, the reader is so intimately linked with the writer that the truth is that the reader *is* the writer.”

— Clarice Lispector (Feb. 1968)

Definitely interested, even from my slightly incompatible timezone!

Helen Garner says State Library of Victoria turned into ‘party central’, with planned job cuts to ‘bring disgrace’ on Melbourne Acclaimed author ‘sick’ about 171-year-old institution’s proposed restructure as hundreds of writers sign open letter in protest

"Now they’re hacking away at the actual librarians? Shame on them. They bring disgrace on the name of our city.”

Great stuff from Judy Brett.

Sign the Petition Save the State Library of Victoria!

Melbourne's State Library of Victoria – the third most popular library in the world! – is being threatened with cuts to staff and facilities. Add your name to the petition to save jobs and resources www.change.org/p/save-the-s...

I am heavily invested in handwriting & historical documents. Historians need to weigh carefully whether time spent transcribing documents is “wasted,” or whether it actually helps thought processes & skills. This is not to say these tools should not be used.

Just consider the cost of “time saved.”