Y. Yvon Wang, Associate Professor of History at the University of Toronto, will be giving a talk entitled “Sexology Sells: Licentiousness & Sexual Science on fin-de-siècle Beijing Markets.” Date & Time: April 26, 6:00 pm PST, in conjunction with Andrea S. Goldman’s History 282B seminar, Gender and Sexuality in Late Imperial and Modern China. Participants are encouraged but not required to […]
Jiacheng Liu, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Northern Colorado, will be giving a talk based on her article "The Game of Love and the Performance of Masculinity: Courting Actresses in Republican China.” Date & Time: April 12, 7:00 pm PST, in conjunction with Andrea S. Goldman’s History 282B seminar, Gender and Sexuality in Late […]
A Discussion of Rebekka Michaelsen’s article-in-progress “The Notorious Mrs. Nobles: Jim Crow Gender and “Insanity” in Late Nineteenth-Century Georgia” This article-in-progress recovers the case of Elizabeth Nobles, an elderly, poor white woman who conspired with her Black farm hand to murder her husband in rural Georgia in 1895. While other historians have demonstrated the importance of race […]
