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Book Review
A culture of curiosity: science in the eighteenth-century home
by Leonie Hannan, 2023, Manchester, Manchester University Press, x + 272pp., £85.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-5261-5303-6
Alexandra M. Macdonald
Published online: 08 Aug 2024
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Disrupting the estate: Katharine Pleydell-Bouverie at Coleshill
Helen Ritchie
Published online: 05 Aug 2024
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Power and patriarchy in the British country house: introduction to the special issue
Lucy Brownson & Amy Solomons
Published online: 03 Aug 2024
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Henrietta Howard: mistress, survivor, imperialist?
Hannah Cusworth
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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Reading between the lines: marginalised sisters at Nostell Priory, 1765-1800
Katie Crowther
Published online: 30 Jul 2024
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Fragments and traces: uncovering Sabine Winn’s reading experiences, 1734–1798
Amy Solomons
Published online: 29 Jul 2024
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Harriett Wilson, Audrey Harvey and Margaret Wynn: poverty, research and social action in 1950–1970s Britain
Ruth Davidson
Published online: 26 Jul 2024
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The mystery of nurse Catherine Pine's suffragette medal—and its solution
Elizabeth Crawford
Published online: 25 Jul 2024
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Situating love and loss: making a film, re-making a world
Babar Suleman
Published online: 25 Jul 2024
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Women’s post-war political activism in Britain: priorities, campaigns, and strategies
Ruth Davidson, Farah Hussain, Lyndsey Jenkins & Anna Muggeridge
Published online: 25 Jul 2024
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Book Review

Book Review
Women and reproductive technologies: the socio-economic development of technologies changing the world
by Annette Burfoot, Derya Güngör, New York, Routledge, 2022, vii + 147 pp., £104.00, ISBN 9780429467646
Friny Jusnita Habut & Hadi Susiarno
Published online: 24 Jul 2024
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‘Who makes history anyway?’: history-making at Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp
Rose Debenham
Published online: 22 Jul 2024
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The movie-struck girl in British Malaya, 1919–1937
Agata Frymus
Published online: 22 Jul 2024
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Book Review
Woman’s Weekly and lower-middle-class domestic culture in Britain, 1918–1958: making homemakers
by Eleanor Reed, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2023, ix+263 pp., £88 (hardback and ebook), ISBN 978-1-80207-842-8
Laurel Forster
Published online: 21 Jul 2024
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Divorced, beheaded … survived: what the six wives of Henry VIII can tell us about ourselves
Grace Beattie
Published online: 19 Jul 2024
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A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain
Helen Glew
Published online: 14 Jul 2024
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Pat Thane
Published online: 09 Jul 2024
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Women’s campaigning, petitioning, and grassroots activism, 1945–1997
Anna Bocking-Welch, Richard Huzzey, Cristina Leston-Bandeira & Henry Miller
Published online: 08 Jul 2024
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The ‘silver thread’: Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan (1890–1982), the Six Point Group, and new understandings of intergenerational female activism in England, 1960s to 1980
Caitríona Beaumont
Published online: 05 Jul 2024
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‘God is an equal opportunities employer- pity about the Church’: humour and the campaign for women’s ordination in the Church of England, 1978–1994
Grace Heaton
Published online: 05 Jul 2024
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Women, war and nation-state building: the commemorations of Kartini Day in the newly independent Indonesia (1946–1949)
Muhammad Yuanda Zara
Published online: 03 Jul 2024
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‘The most extensive reform ever made in the private law of Ghana’: a political history of the 1985 Intestate Succession Law
Kate Skinner, Jovia Salifu & Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Published online: 19 Jun 2024
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‘Appropriated to her own use and benefit’: women, larceny, and race in post-Civil War South Carolina
Hannah Katherine Hicks
Published online: 18 Jun 2024
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Book Review
Writing and rewriting the Reich: women journalists in the Nazi and post-war press
by Deborah Barton, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2023, 384 pp., $85 (hardcover, ebook), ISBN 978-1-4875-4721-9
Katharina Friege
Published online: 13 Jun 2024
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‘The incapacity and perversity of Miss Richmond’: Britain’s ‘civilizing mission,’ colonial narratives, and the Bombay female normal school
Elizabeth A. Baker
Published online: 09 Jun 2024
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Book Review
Patriarchy, honour, and violence: masculinities in premodern Europe
edited by Jacqueline Murray, 2022, Toronto: Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, 358pp., $59.95, ISBN 9780772711441
Jonathan Spangler
Published online: 06 Jun 2024
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Female roles in Western-style Chinese opera: from Confucianist female archetype and political allegory to postmodern complexity
Fung Ying Loo & Shu Xia Deng
Published online: 03 Jun 2024
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‘It biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder’: female rivalry in Caroline Lee Hentz’s novellas
Irina Rabinovich
Published online: 27 May 2024
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Protecting the health and welfare of Japanese women: Yoshioka Yayoi and her visit to Nazi Germany in 1939
Haiying Hou
Published online: 15 May 2024
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French feminisms, global imperialisms—some historiographical reflections on writing Feminism’s Empire
Carolyn J. Eichner
Published online: 08 May 2024
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Girmit, intimacy and sexual violence: indentured women on colonial sugar plantations, c. 1834–1917
Ashutosh Kumar
Published online: 02 May 2024
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Bankrupt widows. Gendered features of merchant business and bankruptcy in late pre-industrial society
Riina Turunen
Published online: 26 Apr 2024
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Postmistresses and the state, 1660–1715
Sarah Ward Clavier
Published online: 24 Apr 2024
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An eastern feminist perspective on the ‘woman question’: the activity, thought and writing of ‘A‘isha Taymur & Malak Hifni Nasif
Maha F. Habib
Published online: 04 Apr 2024
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Seven servants and their mistress: towards a social ecology of domestic service in Street, Somerset (1900–1905)
Sandra Stanley Holton
Published online: 04 Apr 2024
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Writing to exist: Mes’adet Bedirhan’s pleas for Ottoman women
Ayşe Kadıoğlu
Published online: 27 Mar 2024
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‘A perfect farce’: the practice of claiming damages for adultery in the late-Victorian divorce court
Ruth Derham
Published online: 25 Mar 2024
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Reading the silences: Trudie Denman and the women’s movement in the first half of the twentieth century
Maggie Andrews & Anna Muggeridge
Published online: 21 Mar 2024
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Nemone Lethbridge’s play Baby Blues on BBC television: maternal mental illness narratives, stigma and support in 1970s Britain
Fabiola Creed
Published online: 15 Mar 2024
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Between feminism and partisanship: the rise and decline of the women’s movement in Belize, 1975–1993
Rachel Brunot & Joel Wainwright
Published online: 14 Mar 2024
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Maternity care and infrastructures in Spain during Franco's regime
Margarita Vilar-Rodríguez, Dolores Ruiz-Berdún & Jerònia Pons-Pons
Published online: 13 Feb 2024
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Women as concordia seekers in Ancient Rome: gender discourses and propaganda ideology (second-first centuries BC)
Carmen María Ruiz Vivas
Published online: 07 Feb 2024
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Emotions in the making: sexual violence in the Japanese empire, 1937–1945
Ming Gao
Published online: 20 Jan 2024
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‘Ladies, use your needles in the cause of bleeding humanity’: emotion and needlework in the antislavery fair
Stephanie J. Richmond
Published online: 18 Jan 2024
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Gender inequality and the Irish Revolution: the girls of Na Fianna Éireann, 1911–22
Marnie Hay
Published online: 15 Jan 2024
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Behind the scenes: women in the Eichmann trial
Sharon Geva
Published online: 15 Jan 2024
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‘It is because we could not write that it came to you’: women's history in testimonial narratives of resistance
Romita Choudhury
Published online: 27 Dec 2023
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‘The stinking whirlpool of abuse and ignorance’: the marginalisation of sex workers in Ireland, c.1975–1985
Charlotte Forrest
Published online: 21 Dec 2023
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Living with other women’s lives: ‘research resonance’ in the context of life history interviewing
Luciana Lang, Laura Fenton & Penny Tinkler
Published online: 07 Dec 2023
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Modern missionary work and Chinese women’s literacy: Amy Moore in China 1930–1949
Sarah Paddle
Published online: 21 Nov 2023
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