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Women of the Manhattan Project
By Evangeline Leggatt (@evie_leggatt) Traditional narratives of the Manhattan Project emphasise a group of heroic white male physicists in the United States who succeeded in creating, testing, and using the world’s first atomic weapons. Perhaps the most recognisable figure in atomic history was the project’s scientific leader, Dr J. R. Oppenheimer. Other prominent male figures…
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Saving Face? Masculine Prowess and Facial Wounds in Medieval Christendom
By Fiona Knight (@fionalillian_) Sarah Covington writes that the wound of a soldier is not only an ‘embodied record of warmaking’, enshrining the conflict in memory, but also a locus of the soldier’s identity, representing ‘heroism, personal shame, or public burden’.[1] Facial wounds have a unique status in this regard, especially in relation to masculinity…
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11. An Early Legal Handbook for Women
By Zoë Jackson (@ZoeMJackson1) Ordinary people, including women, in seventeenth-century England participated in legal processes, through which they often demonstrated at least a basic understanding of the law.[1] During the early modern period, there even existed a few legal handbooks specifically aimed at women and their experiences and rights within the law. An early version…
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Book Review – The Rule of Manhood: Tyranny, Gender, and Classical Republicanism, 1603-1660 by Jamie Gianoutsos
Megan Chance reviews Jamie Gianoutsos’ The Rule of Manhood: Tyranny, Gender, and Classical Republicanism, 1603-1630 (Cambridge University Press, 2020), £75. In The Rule of Manhood, Jamie Gianoutsos seeks to excavate the masculine norms of republicanism, arguably furthering Hanna Pitkin’s work on masculinity forty years earlier. [1] Her research sits alongside that of Anna Becker and…
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The ‘Monstrous Regiment of Women’: The Paradox of the Masculine-Female Monarch
By Megan Chance “Weake, fraile, impacient, feble and foolish…unconstant, variable, cruell and lacking the spirit of counsel and regiment.” [1] John Knox wrote “How abominable before God is the Empire or Rule of a wicked woman” [2] because “Woman in her greatest perfection was made to serve and obey man, not to rule and command…
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