Category Archives: Women and Gender History

Femmes à la Cour de France

Posted on August 25, 2018 by

Femmes à la cour de France. Charges et fonctions (XVe – XIXe siècle), ed. Caroline zum Kolk, Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier (Villeneuve d’Ascq, Septentrion, 2018), ISBN-102757423614, will soon be published.   This collective volume on women at the royal court of France … Continue reading →

Posted in Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, European History, European Wars of Religion, French History, French Wars of Religion, Noble Culture and History of Elites, Paris History, Political Culture, Women and Gender History | 1 Comment

Armada Portrait Campaign

Posted on May 25, 2016 by

A fundraising campaign has been launched to purchase one of the famous “Armada Portraits” of Elizabeth I of England. The painting was originally owned by Sir Francis Drake and is now being sold by his descendants. This painting presents Elizabeth … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History, Atlantic World, Early Modern Europe, Early Modern World, Empires and Imperialism, European History, European Wars of Religion, Gender and Warfare, History of Violence, Museums and Historical Memory, Reformation History, Religious Violence, Renaissance Art and History, War and Society, War, Culture, and Society, Warfare in the Early Modern World, Women and Gender History | Leave a comment

Penis Politics and Gender History

Posted on March 6, 2016 by

My friend and colleague, Rachel Hope Cleves, has written a commentary on the history of penis politics in the American presidential politics. This piece responds to the recent allusions to Donald Trump’s phallus in the United States presidential primaries by … Continue reading →

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Femmes à la cour de France

Posted on October 7, 2015 by

I will be participating in a conference on Femmes à la cour de France, hosted by Cour de France and the Institut d’Études Avancées de Paris, this week. I will be presenting a paper on “‘Je ne vis jamais cette … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Cultural History, Early Modern Europe, European History, French History, Paris History, Political Culture, Reformation History, Religious History, Renaissance Art and History, Women and Gender History | 1 Comment

Le genre et la guerre : Les femmes, la virilité, et la violence

Posted on June 2, 2015 by

Le genre et la guerre : Les femmes, la virilité, et la violence Journée d’étude, 8 juin 2015 Le but de cette  journée d’études est de discuter la qualité intrinsèquement masculine de la guerre. La guerre a été le plus … Continue reading →

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Gender and War Workshop

Posted on May 28, 2015 by

Le genre et la guerre : Les femmes, la virilité, et la violence Marion Trévisi and I are organizing a workshop on Gender and War at the Institut d’Études Avancées de Paris on 8 June 2015. Interested scholars and graduate … Continue reading →

Posted in Civil Conflict, Civilians and Refugees in War, Conferences, European History, Gender and Warfare, War, Culture, and Society, Warfare in the Early Modern World, Women and Gender History | Leave a comment

Suffragettes: Women, Politics, and Violence

Posted on February 23, 2015 by

Physical violence is often assumed to be a properly—or even exclusively—masculine domain. Yet, women have at times played very active roles in exercising physical violence. In the early twentieth century, some Suffragette activists carried out violent attacks in England as … Continue reading →

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