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“An Election All About Sex & Gender.” Who ever would have predicted this?
What a surprise! Who among us ever would have forseen this? I’m not mocking Rebecca Traister; I truly appreciate her analysis this year and am glad she’s finally getting the teevee time she and...
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Teaser Tuesday: the return of Nabby Adams, nuns’ clothing ceremonies, and a...
Yale University Press. 2016 Today’s Teaser Tuesday excerpt from The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright features one of the more dramatic passages in the book–Esther’s clothing ceremony (or Vêture)...
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Who’s doing all that domestic work inside the convent? Teaser Tuesday returns...
Yale University Press. 2016 Teaser Tuesday is back with more secrets of the convent from chapter four of my new book, The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright, namely: who’s doing all of the...
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“I cannot imagine the sheer will it took to endure:” Part II of my interview...
Oxford University Press, 2015 Today we bring you Part II of my interview with Theresa Kaminski, the author of Angels of the Underground: the American Women who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines...
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Teaser Tuesday: missing men & missing trousers! Whaaaaat?
Yo yo—What time is it? Showtime! OK, I’ll stop setting everything that goes through my head to the tune of various Hamilton: An American Musical songs. Sometimes it makes me wonder why I even bring...
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So long to 2016, suckers.
My yoga teacher offers super-intense classes on several winter holidays in which we do 108 sun salutations (vinyasas.) The last 108 class I attended was on Thanksgiving day, when I allegedly announced...
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Living portraits of the dead and dead portraits of the living: “Posthumous...
Baby in Blue, ca. 1845, William Matthew Prior.National Gallery of Art, Washington. Max Nelson offers a fascinating overview of a current exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum in New York,...
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#AHA17: No longhorns, but plenty of splinters up my skirt.
That old snag again? I’m just back at the ranch after half a week at the American Historical Association’s annual meeting 2017. I didn’t have a minute to blog or tweet about much of anything, seeing as...
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Girls! Girls! Girls!
University of Illinois Press, 2016 The Junto is on fire this week! First, they published Casey Schmitt’s review of Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea, and then followed it up with Rachel Herrmann’s...
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More process, more complicated product? Monica Green on Twitter, digital...
Monica Green, Professor of History, Arizona State U. Today I bring you a guest post by eminent historian Monica Green, a European medievalist and historian of women, gender, and medicine. Those of you...
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Women and fashion: can’t win for losing, turn of the 19th century-style
I’ve been inspired by the recent coverage of the fall 2017 collections during New York and Paris fashion weeks to think about the many ways fashion is deployed as a critique of women’s vanity. Here...
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My review of Adele Perry’s Colonial Relations (2015) is live at Borealia!
Cambridge University Press, 2015 Hello friends–today’s post is just a little bagatelle from my review of Adele Perry’s excellent Colonial Relations: The Douglas-Connolly Family and the...
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Who can defend the sexualization of work environments now?
I know it’s been a long blog-silence around these parts. More on that later, but I’ve got something to say and I think we all need to hear it. It’s gotten so a bish can’t look at the internets or the...
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