DYK #HonorédeBalzac’s 1872 “Memoirs of Two Young Wives” condemned marriage for love? The girl who married for love became a sensationalist & miserable. The one who wed for practicality enjoyed her life. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist
Neu im Slider 📢 Wie Geschlechternormen die Lebenszeit von Frauen strukturierten. Franziska Ludewig analysiert Zeitkonzepte und geschlechterspezifische Rollenzwänge um 1800. 👇🏼
#Geschlechtergeschichte #GenderHistory #Zeitkonzepte @hist-theory.bsky.socia
DYK Harvard’s Edward H. Clarke (d.1877) declared if women went to college they’d all be #sterile by 1910? Schooling was #RaceSuicide, a danger to human kind. His book had 11 printings the 1st year. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist
Sometimes they would put a board down the middle of the bed to keep them apart. “Bundling” did more than let young couples talk all night. It clarified their relationship for their community. If she got pregnant, the boy knew he would have to take responsibility. #GenderHistory
DYK “How Sex Got Screwed Up” is now available as an eBook? To learn #GenderHistory& #HistSexof the world, including #QueerSex, #WmnHist, & #Zoophilia, go to VernonPress.com: Book One ISBN 978-1-62273-69-11 Book Two ISBN 978-1-62273-584-6
DYK “How Sex Got Screwed Up” is now available as an eBook? To learn #GenderHistory& #HistSexof the world, including #QueerSex, #WmnHist, & #Zoophilia, go to VernonPress.com: Book One ISBN 978-1-62273-69-11 Book Two ISBN 978-1-62273-584-6
DYK Nicholas de Blégny (d.1722) blamed women/#SexWorkers, for generating #syphilis by having #coitus w/more than 1 man? The mixing sperm corrupted body tissues. 1684’s “A New Method of Curing the French Pox” agreed. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #genderhistory #STIs #WmnHist
The difference between women’s & other female bodies is also major. Their #vaginas tilt forward for face-to-face sex that can take time. Larger breasts & buttocks, limitless periods of estrus, long bouts of #SexPlay whenever they like, & lots of #orgasms. #GenderHistory #WmnHist
Women in Textiles
Remuneration, #LabourRelations, and #Gender in Europe during #Industrialization
(Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries)
Edited by Manuela Martini
Info: bit.ly/4cgxEeY
#LabourHistory #SocialHistory #GenderStudies #GenderHistory #skystorians
DYK by 1896, 5.5 out of 19 million U.S. men joined men-only clubs to avoid being feminized by Christianity & its marriage responsibilities? Their fears led to public #MuscularChristianity: #BoyScouts, phys. ed., team sports, & #YMCA. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory
DYK a woman’s #breasts & a man’s #penis are the largest compared to body size among primates? #SilverbackGorillas penis are 1 3/16 inches—fully erect. Lower animal penises are drawn into the body. Ours hang out to attract #SexPartners. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory
DYK “How Sex Got Screwed Up” is now available as an eBook? To learn #GenderHistory& #HistSexof the world, including #QueerSex, #WmnHist, & #Zoophilia, go to VernonPress.com: Book One ISBN 978-1-62273-69-11 Book Two ISBN 978-1-62273-584-6
maimed & murdered for #QueerSex, stigmatized women for having kids w/o weddings, denied marriage to men who can’t get a hard on & women who can’t get pregnant, & human rights to women for their gender. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #QueerHistory
DYK “How Sex Got Screwed Up” is now available as an eBook? To learn #GenderHistory& #HistSexof the world, including #QueerSex, #WmnHist, & #Zoophilia, go to VernonPress.com: Book One ISBN 978-1-62273-69-11 Book Two ISBN 978-1-62273-584-6
#CfP #earlymodern #genderhistory "Family roles, access to resources, access to work: unmarried women (15th –19th centuries) Deadline tomorrow 6 April!
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DYK Victorian men saw “good” women as passive, passionless, & helpless, but put them in #SoftPorn? John Bell’s lion gives up raw sexual energy for love of Una’s chaste beauty. A hit at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Ghosts of #GenderHistory haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK Victorian men saw “good” women as passive, passionless & helpless? Any who enjoyed #SexPlay were sinners & needed a guy’s forgiveness? This is #MuscularChristianity’s Charles Kingsley’s (d.1875) sketch of himself w/wife as #Magdalene. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory
DYK in 1765 #WilliamBlackstone interpreted Common Law: “In law, husband & wife are one person & the husband is that person”? Theft of the wife’s purse was stealing from him. Wives were just chattel. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #WmnHist
DYK “How Sex Got Screwed Up” is now available as an eBook? To learn #GenderHistory& #HistSexof the world, including #QueerSex, #WmnHist, & #Zoophilia, go to VernonPress.com: Book One ISBN 978-1-62273-69-11 Book Two ISBN 978-1-62273-584-6
DYK “How Sex Got Screwed Up” is now available as an eBook? To learn #GenderHistory& #HistSexof the world, including #QueerSex, #WmnHist, & #Zoophilia, go to VernonPress.com: Book One ISBN 978-1-62273-69-11 Book Two ISBN 978-1-62273-584-6
Whatever caused it, softness in a man was a vice. It resulted from a lack of virility & self-control. Rome stigmatized effeminacy in the same way that it generally hated women. Pace #Foucault! HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #HistSex #QueerHistory #TransHistory
📖 What can popular literature reveal about gendered boundaries between public and private life in #earlymodern cities?
Read the 🔓 #OpenAccess article co-authored by @mboluferp.bsky.social 👉 loom.ly/4NvC5aY
📚 #FridayReads #GenderHistory #Literature
DYK the ‘60s hippie guy challenged masculinity norms? His long hair, feminine, flowing clothes, & opposition to violence defied standard #GenderRole & corporate culture. His #SexualRevolutionjoined w/#GayRights& #WomensRightsto change #GenderHistory. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
DYK #Mithra's BD was December 25, now the day that Christians celebrate Jesus' BD? A very #patriarchal Roman god for soldiers: his devotees excluded all women from his cult & shunned worship of the #GoddessIsis. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com
In 1899, W.E. Fitch wrote “Bicycle Riding: Its Moral Effect upon Young Girls & Its Relation to the Diseases of Women.” He claimed women were able to have up to 4 orgasms in a single hour of riding. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #GenderHistory #SexToys #WmnHist
DYK “How Sex Got Screwed Up” is now available as an eBook? To learn #GenderHistory& #HistSexof the world, including #QueerSex, #WmnHist, & #Zoophilia, go to VernonPress.com: Book One ISBN 978-1-62273-69-11 Book Two ISBN 978-1-62273-584-6
DYK thru most of history, wives & #SexWorkers shared a common status: #chattel? It took 1,000s of years for wives to gain some equality w/hubands. It is time we did the same for women in #SexWork. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #DecrimNow #WmnHist
DYK “How Sex Got Screwed Up” is now available as an eBook? To learn #GenderHistory& #HistSexof the world, including #QueerSex, #WmnHist, & #Zoophilia, go to VernonPress.com: Book One ISBN 978-1-62273-69-11 Book Two ISBN 978-1-62273-584-6
#Aquinas also preached that husbands who committed adultery needn’t be punished as harshly as wives. It's amazing that he had so much to say about #sexuality when the only sexual issue Jesus talks about in the Gospel is #adultery.
#GenderHistory
DYK #BeauBrummel (d.1840) forever changed Western men’s ideas of fashion & masculinity? Straight guys gave up wearing makeup, lace, embroidery & other frills? Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com #FashionHistory #macho #PopularCulture #SexEd #style
