Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia: The Cultural Politics of Women’s Food Practices How do women express individual agency when engaging in seemingly prescribed or approved practices such as religious fasting? How are…
Gender and Survival in Soviet Russia: A Life in the Shadow of Stalin’s Terror This first-hand witness account – originally written by Ludmila Miklashevskaya in 1976 and here translated into English by historian Elaine…
The curse of Eve, the wound of the hero : blood, gender, and medieval literature In The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero, Peggy McCracken explores the role of blood symbolism in establishing…