By Ross Cameron, an AHRC sponsored PhD researching Anglo-American women’s travel to the Balkans based at the University of Glasgow and the University of Strathclyde. When I began my PhD project last October I was intending on studying the representations of Islam found in British travel writing on the Balkans across a broad swathe of … Continue reading Gendering Anglo-American Travel to the Balkans
Category: Gender History
Teaching Gender and Religion: Some Reflections from Experience
by Judith Bachmann, University of Heidelberg Last semester, I finally dared to teach “gender and religion” in a course introducing students to the study of religion and intercultural theology. While not the lowest I had ever seen, attendance was quite low, but I was okay with that. I had just overcome a semester teaching a … Continue reading Teaching Gender and Religion: Some Reflections from Experience
A Historian of the GDR on the impact of COVID-19
Anna McEwan is a co-founder and editor of En-Gender. She a first-year doctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow. She is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Scottish Graduate School. Like most of us, the impact of COVID-19 absorbed me in a feeling of panic. Last month I was in Berlin … Continue reading A Historian of the GDR on the impact of COVID-19
Interview Methodology in the History of Sexuality
by Marine Gilis My name is Marine Gilis, I am a PhD student at the University of Angers. I am working on the sexual liberation experience of women's group activists in Brittany and Pays-de-la-Loire (the West of France). The women's groups are part of the dynamic of the Women's Liberation Movement (MLF in French), which … Continue reading Interview Methodology in the History of Sexuality
Do all roads lead to Rome? The nuances of studying gender in Antiquity
By Leandro Wallace I Women have been part of history since the beginning. That is as true a statement, as there can be. However, what we would consider the academic recollection of history has had a different approach. In this piece, I will do a quick summary of what has been the development of the … Continue reading Do all roads lead to Rome? The nuances of studying gender in Antiquity





