Gender & History

CALL FOR BIDS: Our current editorial team will step down in June 2025. We are therefore inviting bids from teams of academics based in the UK, USA or Canada who are interested in editing Gender & History. Find out more information about how to apply here 👉onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1…

We have officially joined the other place... 🔵☁️ You can find us using the handle @genderandhistory See you over there!

In our latest #OA article, Tim Somers shows how the comical representation of inter-male violence in early modern jestbooks affirmed changing emotional norms regulating anger and violence. Read it here 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1468-0…

Our latest review, Maria H. Awan offers a nuanced reflection on Voices in Verses: Women's Poetry and Cultural Memory in Nineteenth Century India by Farhat Hasan. Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

How wonderful to be able to publish #OpenAccess with @GenderHistory! My journal article about the figure of the bound woman in transpacific suffrage visual culture has received over 1,000 views since publication! #ViewsMilestone Read it here ⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

In our latest article, Hilary Falb Kalisman explores the extraordinary lives of travelling schoolmistresses of interwar Iraq and the feminine modernity that they represented. Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11

In this thoughtful review, Bodie A. Ashton reflects on Patricio Simonetto's trans history of Argentina, highlighting how this 'outstanding' contribution to the literature also offers 'a vital warning in troubled – and troubling – times'. Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

#ICYMI We are looking for a new editorial team!

After five amazing years @GenderHistory my colleagues and I @unishefhistory are passing on the baton to edit this wonderful journal - please spread the word. We are looking for a team based at the same university. Also of course happy to answer any questions.

We will expect to receive bids by 15 January 2025. For any enquiries, please contact in the first instance our editorial assistant, Bryony Fitzjohn (genderandhistory@sheffield.ac.uk)

The editorial team would normally consist of three or four named editors, who are specialists in the field of gender history and would be based at the same university. Ideally, the editorial team will reflect the broad thematic, geographical and historical scope of the journal.

CALL FOR BIDS: Our current editorial team will step down in June 2025. We are therefore inviting bids from teams of academics based in the UK, USA or Canada who are interested in editing Gender & History. Find out more information about how to apply here 👉onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1…

New @GenderHistory special issue: Engendering Carcerality Check out my article 'Industrious, truthful, upright and manly: Reforming poor young men in the borstal schools of India in the 1920s and 1930s' #youth #histchild #penal onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424/2…

In this #OpenAccess article, Sanna Strand and Fia Cottrell-Sundevall examine the onset of military marketisation and broader neoliberal trends in Sweden through a focus on the recruitment of women soldiers and officers during the 1990s. Available here 👇onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

The issue also includes articles from Iris van der Zande, April Haynes, Catriona Ellis, Jessica R. Pliley, Zhanna Popova, Donna T. Haverty-Stacke, Annalisa Martin, Anne Gray Fischer and Rachel Leah Klein! All available here 👇onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424/2…

Our new Special Issue 'Engendering Carcerality' is now online! In their introduction, Eileen Boris, Sara M. Butler and Alex Mireles explore the difference that gender makes in the history of the carceral across time and space. Read it now 👇onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Congratulations to Ellen Smith who was co-winner of the Royal Historical Society's 2024 Alexander Prize for her article - Widows, Violence and Death: The Construction of Imperial Identity and Memory by Women in Mourning across British India, 1857–1926.  ⬇️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

On the subject of book reviews, I was beyond humbled to see this in @GenderHistory by the eminent historian Prof Anshu Malhotra @ucsantabarbara Again, pls DM for a PDF if you'd like to read & cannot access. Thx to G&H editors, esp. Prof @s_lamberthurley ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

In our latest Open Access article, Imogen Knox explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print during the seventeenth and early-eighteen centuries. Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

In our latest OA article, Joanna Simonow explores the political consequences of sexual relations between Indian anti-colonial activists and white women. Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

In case you missed it, check out ‘Virility, fascism and regeneration in post-Civil War Spain’ by Zira Box. This OA article sheds light on gendered conceptions of the nation in terms of virility. Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…