#genderhistory

DYK #BernardDeClairvaux was the #misogynist #ClosetQueen who accused Pierre #Abélard (#Heloise's boy) of #heresy? In part, because of his preaching on #WomensEquality. In part, because he liked straight sex. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK #RobertBly’s 1990 #IronJohn urged men to go back to the woods to drum, scream, hold shamanic rituals & sweat in lodges to regain the manhood & masculinity they had lost to the women in their lives? Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

DYK doctors did #clitoridectomy on ancient Roman women if the clitoris was “too big”? Parents still let them cut #intersex babies? This 1666 drawing shows #Soranus’ 2ndC method. Ghosts of #GenderHistory still haunt. HowSexGotScrewedUp.com

Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa's Anti‐Apartheid Struggle: The Shadow of a Young Woman (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

📚 Book review: Voice, Silence and Gender in South Africa's Anti-Apartheid Struggle: The Shadow of a Young Woman by Rachel E. Johnson, reviewed by Susanne M. Klausen 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...