Anya Jabour
@herstoryprof.bsky.social
Feminist historian, dog-mom, book-lover, queer academic. She/her. “‘Woman’s Work for Women’: How Katharine Bement Davis Fought for Women’s Rights in the Workplace, at the Polls, and in the Bedroom,” f/c from NYU Press in 2026. More at anyajabour.com.
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Anya Jabour
@herstoryprof.bsky.social
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History | Anya Jabour
Anya Jabour is an award-winning author and historical consultant specializing in the lives of women, families, and children.
www.anyajabour.com
New book in the works means it's time to refresh the website!
www.anyajabour.com
www.anyajabour.com
Beginning my week by declining to have my work used for generative AI. Happy Monday!
October 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Beginning my week by declining to have my work used for generative AI. Happy Monday!
Happy #lgbtqhistory month! Happy to announce I will be contributing a chapter overview on "Queer Lives and Loves in the Nineteenth Century" to the Schlager Anthology of LGBTQ History and to share a short article in that spirit:
womenshistorynetwork.org/no-men-need-...
womenshistorynetwork.org/no-men-need-...
“No men need apply”: How a Group of “Perfect Little Ladies” Challenged Gender Norms in Turn-of-the-Century New York – Anya Jabour
President Edith Joiner addresses the Perfects. Jan. 29, 1897. May Bragdon Diaries. Rare Books, Special Collections & Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries. In the …
womenshistorynetwork.org
October 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Happy #lgbtqhistory month! Happy to announce I will be contributing a chapter overview on "Queer Lives and Loves in the Nineteenth Century" to the Schlager Anthology of LGBTQ History and to share a short article in that spirit:
womenshistorynetwork.org/no-men-need-...
womenshistorynetwork.org/no-men-need-...
New book in the works means it's time to refresh the website!
www.anyajabour.com
www.anyajabour.com
History | Anya Jabour
Anya Jabour is an award-winning author and historical consultant specializing in the lives of women, families, and children.
www.anyajabour.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
New book in the works means it's time to refresh the website!
www.anyajabour.com
www.anyajabour.com
A student had a great question in my women's history class. What do we know about the MEN accused of witchcraft in early America? If somebody has written about this, I've missed it. Let me know where I should start!
September 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
A student had a great question in my women's history class. What do we know about the MEN accused of witchcraft in early America? If somebody has written about this, I've missed it. Let me know where I should start!
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"The 'feminist killjoy' stereotype is as timely—and misleading—now as it was then."
A review of Sara Catterall's new biography of Amelia Bloomer by @hottycouture.bsky.social
A review of Sara Catterall's new biography of Amelia Bloomer by @hottycouture.bsky.social
Dressed for Reform
Long before it was fashionable, Bloomer pioneered what would later be dubbed "respectability politics"
contingentmagazine.org
September 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
"The 'feminist killjoy' stereotype is as timely—and misleading—now as it was then."
A review of Sara Catterall's new biography of Amelia Bloomer by @hottycouture.bsky.social
A review of Sara Catterall's new biography of Amelia Bloomer by @hottycouture.bsky.social
Two of my books are in here, and tons of articles and reviews. Check it out and join the fight!
If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Two of my books are in here, and tons of articles and reviews. Check it out and join the fight!
Finally emerging from the Covid cave. Right before I tested positive, I sent the ms to my editor.
September 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Finally emerging from the Covid cave. Right before I tested positive, I sent the ms to my editor.
Rewriting the epilogue to the book… sometimes I hate writing relevant history!
August 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Rewriting the epilogue to the book… sometimes I hate writing relevant history!
Amazing panel on "The Intermediaries and Their Allies" with @bschillace.brandyschillace.com and River Watson for Missoula Pride 2025 yesterday! Full (auto-captioned) recording available! www.facebook.com/MissoulaComm...
The Intermediaries and Their Allies | June 21, 2025 | By Missoula's Community Media Resource | Facebook
June 21, 2025
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June 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Amazing panel on "The Intermediaries and Their Allies" with @bschillace.brandyschillace.com and River Watson for Missoula Pride 2025 yesterday! Full (auto-captioned) recording available! www.facebook.com/MissoulaComm...
I'm starting off No Kings Day writing about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911, in which 146 workers--most of them teenaged girls and young women--lost their lives to corporate greed and corrupt politicians. www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel
June 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I'm starting off No Kings Day writing about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire of 1911, in which 146 workers--most of them teenaged girls and young women--lost their lives to corporate greed and corrupt politicians. www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel
Missoulians, check out this amazing event for Pride! facebook.com/events/s/the...
THE INTERMEDIARIES Book Reading and Signing with Brandy Schillace
Event in Missoula, MT by Anya Jabour on Monday, June 23 2025
facebook.com
June 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Missoulians, check out this amazing event for Pride! facebook.com/events/s/the...
Has anyone made a starter pack of folks on TPUSA’s Professor Watchlist?
May 21, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Has anyone made a starter pack of folks on TPUSA’s Professor Watchlist?
I’ve been searching for a reader (as opposed to a reviewer) of Katharine Bement Davis’s FACTORS IN THE SEX LIFE OF TWENTY-TWO HUNDRED WOMEN for 2 years. Finally, revisiting Joanne Passet’s bio of Jeannette Foster, the Kinsey Institute’s official librarian, I found the proverbial “smoking gun!”
May 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I’ve been searching for a reader (as opposed to a reviewer) of Katharine Bement Davis’s FACTORS IN THE SEX LIFE OF TWENTY-TWO HUNDRED WOMEN for 2 years. Finally, revisiting Joanne Passet’s bio of Jeannette Foster, the Kinsey Institute’s official librarian, I found the proverbial “smoking gun!”
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Hello my #autistic #actuallyautistic #ND and #disability friends. I am putting together a starter pack on Autism/ND/disability platforms—I am also happy to add any individuals who would like to be included. Please make recs! We need community to fight RFK Jr.🧪♿️
go.bsky.app/wbCudt
go.bsky.app/wbCudt
May 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Hello my #autistic #actuallyautistic #ND and #disability friends. I am putting together a starter pack on Autism/ND/disability platforms—I am also happy to add any individuals who would like to be included. Please make recs! We need community to fight RFK Jr.🧪♿️
go.bsky.app/wbCudt
go.bsky.app/wbCudt
The tentative title of my f/c book about Katharine Bement Davis is SEX MATTERS, a paraphrase from her quote "matters of sex" + an assertion that sex (sexual desire, sexual education, sexual study, etc.) is significant. But anti-trans folk are using the hashtag to assert primacy of sex (vs. gender).
May 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
The tentative title of my f/c book about Katharine Bement Davis is SEX MATTERS, a paraphrase from her quote "matters of sex" + an assertion that sex (sexual desire, sexual education, sexual study, etc.) is significant. But anti-trans folk are using the hashtag to assert primacy of sex (vs. gender).
My mission this week: Read @bschillace.brandyschillace.com's THE INTERMEDIARIES, write about Europeans who launched the scientific study of sex and the queer civil rights movement, and document Katharine Bement Davis’s role in it all! #sexmatters #intermediaries
May 15, 2025 at 7:38 PM
My mission this week: Read @bschillace.brandyschillace.com's THE INTERMEDIARIES, write about Europeans who launched the scientific study of sex and the queer civil rights movement, and document Katharine Bement Davis’s role in it all! #sexmatters #intermediaries
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AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?
May 13, 2025 at 7:54 PM
AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?
UMontana WGSS writing retreat is awesome as usual!
May 14, 2025 at 5:57 AM
UMontana WGSS writing retreat is awesome as usual!
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Trump: “Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls…They don’t need 250 pencils, they can have 5.”
Also Trump: accepts new Air Force One worth $400M from Qatari royal family.
Also Trump: accepts new Air Force One worth $400M from Qatari royal family.
May 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Trump: “Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls…They don’t need 250 pencils, they can have 5.”
Also Trump: accepts new Air Force One worth $400M from Qatari royal family.
Also Trump: accepts new Air Force One worth $400M from Qatari royal family.
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Why is this story not in an American paper
Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line
The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families
www.theguardian.com
May 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Why is this story not in an American paper
Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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"So the fact that the city of Troy is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a beautiful giant wooden horse..."
May 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
"So the fact that the city of Troy is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a beautiful giant wooden horse..."
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📢 Extended Deadline: May 31 📢 Still time to submit your proposals on all things long 18th century. Join us in Regina this October. www.csecs.ca/en/calls-for...
May 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
📢 Extended Deadline: May 31 📢 Still time to submit your proposals on all things long 18th century. Join us in Regina this October. www.csecs.ca/en/calls-for...
Because of course!
Soon after firing the Librarian of Congress, Trump has fired the nation’s top copyright official as well. Rep. Joe Morelle says Trump acted after the copyright official “refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.”
Trump fires top US copyright official
Democrats are alleging foul play.
www.politico.com
May 11, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Because of course!
Happy Mother’s Day for mothers and others, and your annual reminder that mothering takes many forms in today’s world—and that’s nothing new! Read more about women’s caregiving in historical context here: theconversation.com/childless-ca...
‘Childless cat ladies’ have long contributed to the welfare of American children − and the nation
Criticisms of women without biological children define motherhood too narrowly, as history reveals the many forms of motherhood.
theconversation.com
May 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Happy Mother’s Day for mothers and others, and your annual reminder that mothering takes many forms in today’s world—and that’s nothing new! Read more about women’s caregiving in historical context here: theconversation.com/childless-ca...