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Dig: A History Podcast<p>One-Sex, Two-Sex, or …?: Thinking About the Sexed Body in History</p><p><a href="https://digpodcast.org/2024/07/14/one-sex-two-sex-or-thinking-about-the-sexed-body-in-history/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">digpodcast.org/2024/07/14/one-</span><span class="invisible">sex-two-sex-or-thinking-about-the-sexed-body-in-history/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Bodies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Bodies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ancient" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ancient</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/EarlyModern" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EarlyModern</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/EuropeanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EuropeanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/HistoryOfTheBody" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HistoryOfTheBody</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>medieval</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>podcast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>histodons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>history</span></a> @histodons</p>
Jonathan Emmesedi<p>🧵 3/4</p><p>I was fascinated to see that this 1913 "Venus" - in life, the popular singer Raquel Meller - is depicted with underarm and pubic hair. </p><p>This prompted my interest for two reasons. </p><p>In the first place, I find it attractive when women have not removed all of their underarm and pubic hair. This body hair to me is a sign of sexual maturity and of a certain animal physicality.</p><p>Secondly, I would like to know more about the history of depilation. The internetish history usually tells the story of underarm hair only becoming taboo amongst western women in the early decades of the twentieth century as a result of changing fashions and concomitant advertising by the manufacturers of razors.</p><p>I suspect, however, there is more to the story. I wonder if depilation practices have a longer history and have varied in Europe and the Americas according to socioeconomic class, ethnicity, and religion. </p><p>There is also, of course, the gap between bodies and pictorial representations of bodies. I remember being struck at Avignon's Musée Calvet by the underarm hair depicted in Théodore Chassériau's "Baigneuse endormie près d'une source".</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BodyHair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BodyHair</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/UnderarmHair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnderarmHair</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Mus%C3%A9eCalvet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MuséeCalvet</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Th%C3%A9odoreChass%C3%A9riau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThéodoreChassériau</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/Depilation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Depilation</span></a><br><a href="https://c.im/tags/HistoryOfTheBody" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryOfTheBody</span></a></p>
Dig: A History Podcast<p>The History of Fat: The Complex Attitudes Toward Fatness in the Pre-Modern West</p><p><a href="https://digpodcast.org/2023/09/03/history-of-fat/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">digpodcast.org/2023/09/03/hist</span><span class="invisible">ory-of-fat/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/5CsOfHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>5CsOfHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Complexity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AncientHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AncientHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/complexity" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>complexity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CulturalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CulturalHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/EarlyModernHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EarlyModernHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/EuropeanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EuropeanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/HistoryOfFat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HistoryOfFat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/HistoryOfTheBody" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HistoryOfTheBody</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MedievalHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MedievalHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>podcast</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>histodons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>history</span></a> @histodons</p>
Colin Danby<p>Re-introducing (my first instance vanished): I'm an economist from U.Mass. Amherst teaching in an interdisciplinary unit at UW Bothell. I've written in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PostKeynesian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostKeynesian</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Feministeconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Feministeconomics</span></a> </p><p>Current research on race and economics late 19th and early 20th centuries is summarized here, with some working papers: <a href="https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/crisesofthewhitebody/home" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sites.google.com/uw.edu/crises</span><span class="invisible">ofthewhitebody/home</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/historyofthebody" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>historyofthebody</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/historyofeugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>historyofeugenics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/historyofeconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>historyofeconomics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/historyofpsychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>historyofpsychology</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a></p>
Colin Danby<p>Re-introducing (my first instance vanished): I'm an economist from U.Mass. Amherst teaching in an interdisciplinary unit at UW Bothell. I've written in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PostKeynesian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PostKeynesian</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Feministeconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Feministeconomics</span></a> </p><p>Current research on race and economics late 19th and early 20th centuries is summarized here, with some working papers: <a href="https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/crisesofthewhitebody/home" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sites.google.com/uw.edu/crises</span><span class="invisible">ofthewhitebody/home</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/historyofthebody" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>historyofthebody</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/historyofeugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>historyofeugenics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/historyofeconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>historyofeconomics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/historyofpsychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>historyofpsychology</span></a></p>
Colin Danby<p>I posted notes on the young <a href="https://masthead.social/tags/AlfredMarshalland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlfredMarshalland</span></a> the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos to my research site:</p><p><a href="https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/crisesofthewhitebody/home" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sites.google.com/uw.edu/crises</span><span class="invisible">ofthewhitebody/home</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masthead.social/tags/Keynes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Keynes</span></a> started the myth that Marshall suffered a mental crisis in his mid 20s. There's no evidence of that, but it's interesting that people have run with it -- a breakdown seems to be what the story needs. Why the epidemic of such crises among European intellectuals late 19th and early 20th century? </p><p><a href="https://masthead.social/tags/HistoryoftheBody" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryoftheBody</span></a> <a href="https://masthead.social/tags/HistoryofEconomicThought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryofEconomicThought</span></a></p>
Colin Danby<p>Now that my following has surged into double digits, a moment of sharing and peeps-seeking. I've put up here:</p><p><a href="https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/crisesofthewhitebody/home" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sites.google.com/uw.edu/crises</span><span class="invisible">ofthewhitebody/home</span></a></p><p>some notes and mini-working-papers from a project on body, nation, race, and economy in the 19th and 20th centuries. Most interested in hearing from others working in these areas.</p><p><a href="https://masthead.social/tags/CharlesBabbage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CharlesBabbage</span></a> <br><a href="https://masthead.social/tags/HerbertSpencer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HerbertSpencer</span></a> <br><a href="https://masthead.social/tags/AlfredMarshall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlfredMarshall</span></a> <br><a href="https://masthead.social/tags/eugenics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eugenics</span></a> <br><a href="https://masthead.social/tags/Neurasthenia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Neurasthenia</span></a> <br><a href="https://masthead.social/tags/IrvingFisher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IrvingFisher</span></a> <br><a href="https://masthead.social/tags/Keynes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Keynes</span></a> <br><a href="https://masthead.social/tags/JamesMeade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JamesMeade</span></a> <br><a href="https://masthead.social/tags/HistoryofEconomicThought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryofEconomicThought</span></a> <br><a href="https://masthead.social/tags/HistoryoftheBody" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryoftheBody</span></a></p>
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