Women's Day at Cliopatria

by Cliopatria

Andrew Sullivan has discovered rachel's bookporn and pronounces her a"major nerd." You can access rachel's whole collection of dirty books here.

Cliopatria welcomes Madame Royale,"a blog on women through time", to the history blogosphere. She's an exception to my hypothesis here that female historians who blog anonymously or pseudonymously commonly do not do history on their blogs. Maybe my hypothesis is a crock.

Mary Beard,"Seminar Power and Willy-Waving," A Don's Life, 5 June, finds cultural variations in academic seminars.

Mary Tedeschi Eberstadt,"How the West Really Lost God," Policy Review, June/July, takes a new look at the relationship between the decline of the traditional family and the decline of traditional religion.

Miriam Burstein's"Linking About: Victorian Stained Glass," Little Professor, 5 June, is rich with leads to stained glass beauty.

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Nonpartisan - 6/9/2007

I see -- that makes perfect sense, then. The exceptions don't disprove the rule in this instance.

Ralph E. Luker - 6/9/2007

You'd have to look at the original discussion to understand my point. A female history blogger had complained that female history bloggers didn't actually do history on the net -- they did lots of other useful things -- but they didn't do history.
I responded by pointing out many women history bloggers who actually do history. The difference of perception seemed to be that the woman who lodged the complaint dwelt in the world of anonymous/ pseudonymous female history bloggers almost exclusively. She was unaware of the large number of female history bloggers who blog in their own names. By my count, at the time, about 60% of female historians actually blog in their own names.
So, the question was why might there be some correlation between anonymous/pseudonymous blogging and not blogging about history? It appeared then and, I think still is generally true (exceptions like Ellie, aphra behn, & Madame Royale to the contrary notwithstanding), that women who wanted to preserve their anonymity on the net often avoided close discussion of their professional interests, lest it offer clues to their identity.

Nonpartisan - 6/9/2007

Doesn't Elle count as an exception to that hypothesis? Plus there's virtually all the women who blog on my largely-pseudonymous site -- most especially Aphra Behn, who's one of our admins.