Gender

Woman as anomaly: the many tales of Beruria

Oct 27, 2024

Feminism, Jewish history, Texts

Feminism, Gender, Jewish history, Talmud, UCL, women, Women’s history

Made-up tales, possibly true stories, and why any of that matters. Finding out about women: “How it actually went down.” The BIAJS conference in July this year had gender as its theme, so I presented a paper on the supposed great scholar Beruria and the inevitably doomed (by my reckoning) attempts to fashion her as…
Twisted tales of spinning and blogging

Sep 28, 2017

Experts, Feminism, Internet research, Living metaphors, Mosul

Blogging, Brooke Erin Duffy, Cardigan Castle, Gender, Knitblogs, Living metaphors, Mosul, National Wool Museum, Stephanie Taylor

Elephantdentistry’s main themes might seem a strange mix. They include (1) what’s going on with internet and social media industries, politics and practices, (2) experts, (3) living metaphors and catching them in the wild (fun with language), (4) feminism, (5) music and (6) Mosul. Here I’m getting most of these twisted together so let’s see…