Gender

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"Is Autism an extreme of the male brain?" A lecture by Simon Baron-Cohen	This is a Stockholm Psychiatry Lecture given by Professor Simon Baron-Cohen of Cambridge University, entitled "Is Autism an extreme of the male...	Gender, autism, aspergers, Brain, brain scanning, empathy	view
'Shades Of Meaning': The Significance Of Hair Colour In Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1862) And Rossetti's Lady Lilith (1866–68, Altered 1872–73), Jessica Lenihan	In a culture obsessed with physiognomy, where the Victorian female body was a canvas of symbols to be read, the portrayal of hair – and...	Social history, Gender, Sexuality, 19th century	view
Between The Spheres: Breaking The Boundary Between Private And Public Spheres In Wilkie Collins’s The Woman In White And William Holman Hunt’s The Lady Of Shalott, Alison Westwood	The nineteenth-century notion of a public sphere for male-authored content and a private sphere for female-authored content made the female diary...	19th century, Gender, Sexuality	view
British Women's History	Concentrates on British women's emancipation since the Renaissance, bringing together many primary sources and presenting essays, summaries and...	Gender, Women, Sufferage, History	view
Fallen Woman or Fallen Man? Representations of moral responsibility, punishment and reward in George Frederic Watts’s painting Found Drowned (1848-50) and Charles Dickens’s novel Our Mutual Friend (1864-5) by Susan Knights	This article will examine gendered representations of moral responsibility by comparing its treatment of fallen women in the above artefacts....	19th century, Victorian Culture, Gender, Equality, Charles Dickens, George Frederic Watts	view
Female Self-determination in Victorian Britain: Finding the parellels between Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1862) and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Proserpine (1874) by Sez Maxted	The gender history of nineteenth-century Britain can be seen as a gradual but determined female challenge against an overarching...	Victorian Culture, Gender, 19th century	view
Mirrors Of The Soul: Reflections Of Sexual Identity In Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘Hand And Soul’ And Woman Combing Her Hair, Travis Piper	As an artist and man Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) was mesmerized by women, focusing consistently on female images and identity throughout...	19th century, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Sexuality, Gender	view
Mrs Rundell and the Milkmaid: Perceptions of female identity in the domestic sphere in eighteenth-century London by Jenny Sylvester	This article discusses a cookery book, A New System of Domestic Cookery (figure 1), by Maria Eliza Rundell (1745–1828), and Milk...	Victorian, Woman's work, Gender	view
MSt in English Language	Podcasts on Oxford's Masters in EngIish Language. Includes talks on Chaucer, Shakespeare, and gender and language.	Language, Gender, Shakespeare, Chaucer	view
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies	Open-access peer-reviewed journal on gender, literature, and culture in the nineteenth century.	Nineteenth-century, Victorian, Gender, Criticism	view

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