This virtual special issue of History Workshop Journal tells the histories of states in their interlocking national, international, local, and archival dimensions, and as political and legal contestations of sovereign power.
Tag: feminist history
Feminist reformers and the ‘discovery’ of marital violence in 1970s Ireland
For the first fifty years of Irish independence, domestic violence was shrouded in secrecy and denial. Cara Diver explores how feminist reformers shattered the illusion that the home was always a site of safety for women and their children.
Radical Books: Trans Like Me (2017), CN Lester
How does CN Lester’s ‘Trans Like Me’ offer radical new perspectives on the integral relationship between feminism and trans rights? Onni Gust investigates as part of HWO’s Remembering Stonewall feature.
History from below: a reading list with Marcus Rediker
Jared Davidson introduces Marcus Rediker’s carefully curated list of essential readings to develop a history from below.
We Choose Who Lives Forever: A Monument to Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft was a pioneering advocate for human rights and philosopher. Why isn’t she better remembered?
