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Tag Archives: sexuality
Call for Papers – Hard and Soft Power: questions of race, intimacy and violence in the comparative colonial toolkit
Readers of the blog will hopefully be interested in submitting an abstract for the below conference, held at the University of Kent in July. See strand 3 on ‘colonial intimacy’ in particular. First deadline for proposals is 16th March, but … Continue reading
Posted in Calls for Papers, Information, News
Tagged conferences, emotions, gender, genealogy, intimacy, marriage, sexuality, women's history
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REVIEW: Family Secrets: living with shame from the Victorians to the present day by Deborah Cohen (Penguin, 2013)
Deborah Cohen’s Family Secrets: living with shame from the Victorians to the present day is an engaging and vivacious read. Filled to the brim with well-researched anecdotes and well-chosen illustrations, it is certainly enjoyable. Cohen’s premise is essentially that as … Continue reading
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Tagged children, East India Company, family history, India, mixed-race children, sexuality
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Announcements: Workshop on Intimacy and Mission History, and Recent Publications
You might be interested in this workshop on the role of emotions and intimacy in the history of Christian missions. >> Investigating the Intimate in Mission Histories 17 October 2012 (9 am – 5 pm) and 18 October 2012 (9 … Continue reading
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Tagged Australia, Britain, children, Denmark, emotions, gender, Greenland, India, material culture, memory, missionaries, Papua New Guinea, settler colonialism, sexuality, South Africa, South Seas
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Announcements: 23 April 2011
Conference Announcements ‘For Love or Money?: Historical Perspectives on Gender and Emotional Labour’ 2 July 2011, University of the West of England, Bristol The 18th annual conference of the West of England & South Wales Women’s History Network. Confirmed speakers … Continue reading
Posted in Calls for Papers, Events, Publications
Tagged age, Atlantic world, Australia, childhood, China, economics, education, emotions, French Indochina, French West Africa, gender, Gold Coast, imperial Britain, imperial France, interracial families, labour, masculinity, methodology, old age, public history, race, sexuality, suffrage
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