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Interview with Maggie Humm
Read more: Interview with Maggie HummMaggie Humm reflects on feminist criticism, life-writing, and Virginia Woolf’s influence.
Unwomanly women? Gender and technology at the end of the nineteenth century
By Lena Wånggren What is an ‘unwomanly’ woman? Or an ‘unsexed’ woman? At the end of the nineteenth century, both…
Sex and Spanish Cinema from Screen to Academia
An extract from the introduction of Spanish Erotic Cinema, edited by Santiago Fouz-Hernandez If there is something that the various…
Judging a book by its cover: designing ‘The World of Image in Islamic Philosophy’
Can the contents of an academic book be expressed by means other than words? In centuries past, it was common…
Trans Temporalities
The guest editors of the Somatechnics Special Issue, ‘Trans Temporalities‘, draw on their inspirations for the issue theme, as well…
Secularisation and religious decline in 21st-century Scotland
By Ben Clements. My Scottish Affairs research looks in detail at recent survey data on religious decline and secularisation in…
Appropriating Christian History in Fujian: Red Tourism Meets the Cross
In the early years of China’s Civil War, the Communist army and leadership sought refuge from Nationalist troops in the…
OLR 40th Anniversary – Gilles Deleuze
Last month we celebrated the writing of Hélène Cixous, both as part of Women’s History Month and of OLR’s…
Richard Owen: an overlooked parasitologist
Who was Richard Owen? Richard Owen (1804–1892) is one of the most important British biologists of the nineteenth century. He…
The Woman on Westminster Bridge
A woman walks across a bridge. She is looking at her mobile. She seems to be in a hurry. Close…