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Showing posts with label gender and sexuality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gender and sexuality. Show all posts
Monday, December 17, 2018

Deborah Sampson, Soldier in the American Revolution

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Deborah Sampson, Revolutionary War Soldier (born 17 December 1760) Born on 17 December 1760 in Plympton, Massachusetts, Deborah Sampson...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

Back to the Future, Part 9: The 10 Most Dangerous Countries for Women

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Back to the Future, Part 9: The 10 Most Dangerous Countries for Women  It's been a while since I've had the heart to post anoth...
Sunday, May 27, 2018

Benedetta Carlini and Same-Sex Desire in an Italian Convent

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Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of the Convent of the Mother of God (first investigation begins, 27 May 1619) Benedetta Carlini was born in 1...
Sunday, March 25, 2018

Thomas/ine Hall, "Changed into the Fashion of a Man"

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Thomas/ine Hall (appearance in court, 25 March 1629) According to the records of a 1629 trial in the General Court of Jamestown, Virgi...
Sunday, March 18, 2018

Catalina de Erauso, "the Lieutenant Nun"

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Catalina de Erauso (escapes her convent, 18 March 1600) According to her autobiography, Catalina de Erauso was born in 1585, although ...
Monday, December 25, 2017

Jennie Hodgers Becomes Albert Cashier

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Albert Cashier/Jennie Hodgers (born 25 December 1843) When reporter Ida Tarbell queried the Adjutant General's Office in 1909, askin...
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Monday, April 3, 2017

Anne Lister, "the First Modern Lesbian"

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Anne Lister (born 3 April 1791) Recently, the BBC and HBO announced the production of an upcoming drama,  Shibden Hall , from writer...
Tuesday, December 8, 2015

"A Woman Playing a Woman? Where's the Trick in That?"

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The Role of Desdemona Performed by a Woman on the English Stage (8 December 1660) The title of this post ("A Woman Playing a Woman...
Friday, November 20, 2015

Selma Lagerlöf, the First Woman to Win a Nobel Prize in Literature

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Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf (born 20 November 1858) Well, I was planning to write just a quick paragraph or so about Selma Lagerlöf,...