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Bloody Hilarious: Menstrual Poems in Victorian Pornography

November 11, 2021 Janice Niemann Other, Victorians Beyond the Academy, Victorians on Display

*** Content warning: this post contains graphic sexual imagery and strong language ***

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#foodforthought — In a previous #blogpost by @migrationhist, she discusses the history of Indian curry and "traces the history of Indian curry as we know it today and the lingering tastes of Empire that we engage with in our everyday lives."

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In today's #blogpost, Therese Ruud Gordeladze explores 'layered scopophilia' in Hardy's 'Tess of the D'Urbevilles', exploring how consumers of literature become unwilling participants in the objectification of women. Read here: https://jvc.oup.com/2022/08/12/scopophilia-in-tess-of-the-durbervilles/

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Want to read more from Jessica Cox? In a previous #blogpost she explains how Bertha Mason has “entered into the popular cultural imagination.”

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It is #humpday… Or, #babybumpday!? Either way, take a look at this #article written by Jessica Cox, where she connects breast-feeding in Victorian advice books with “Mansplaining.“🤰🏼

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