By Prof. Marcy Karin Professor Marcy Karin shares her remarks from the GENDER.ED-IASH event on Reproductive Justice to mark International Women’s Day in 2023. We don’t talk about menstrual injustice enough, she writes. On the rare occasions we do talk about menstruation in public, we view it as something dirty and don’t consider the varied …
Image: Sharessa Naidoo creatively represents her response to the event; pictured from left to right Jaspreet Kaur, Dr Kaveri Qureshi, Pooja Marwaha, Sharessa Naidoo and Dr. Radhika Govinda discussing ‘Brown Girl Like Me: The Essential Guidebook and Manifesto for South Asian Girls and Women’ co-sponsored by GENDER.ED. Credit:Tulsa Moosa. When I think about my unique journey …
Who knows the story of young Scots woman Geillis Duncan’s last night on earth? As one of some 3800 people accused of witchcraft in early modern Scotland, her official story is available to us via the record of her trial in 1591. From this we know that “She gave a detailed confession and told about …
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Last year, GENDER.ED launched an ECR Spotlight Series to showcase the cutting-edge research being done by ECRs at the University of Edinburgh. This year, our series focuses on PhD researchers. Their posts offer some fascinating new research from gendered political protest in Hong Kong to what an analysis of abortion discourses in the early twentieth century can …
Together with IASH, GENDER.ED presents ‘Rediscovering Feminist Histories’, an event that will be running as part of the Being Human Festival 2021, on Thursday 18 November 2021 at 17.00 GMT. This hour-long online discussion explores how women’s histories are often forgotten, overlooked or actively suppressed. Bringing together historians, lawyers and literature experts, we will explore …
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GENDER.ED is thrilled to announce that our joint event with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The Price of Periods: Prisons, Poverty, Politics, will be running as part of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Festival of Social Science, on Monday 22 November 2021 at 17:00 GMT. This hour-long online discussion, accessible to the …
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