Welcome to Bluestocking!
Bluestocking is an online journal that investigates the intellectual and artistic achievements of women throughout history. We publish insightful articles about the work of female thinkers of the past and present, raising the profile of women as major actors in the history of ideas. To read more about the aims of Bluestocking, take a look at the About Us section.
Issue 10 of Bluestocking is available on the link below. Click to read the Conflict Issue! It covers an extraordinary range of topics from the work of composer Meredith Monk to the controversies of midwifery in the eighteenth century.You can also browse past issues of the journal by visiting the Archives.
Bluestocking is edited and managed by students in Oxford and we are always looking for people to get involved as editors, publicity managers, writers, etc. If you would like to get involved, please send an email to bluestocking.editor@gmail.com
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Issue 11. Team Recruitment
WE ARE CURRENTLY RECRUITING THE FOLLOWING TEAM MEMBERS FOR THE ELEVENTH ISSUE OF BLUESTOCKING:
ARTS EDITOR
HUMANITIES EDITOR
SCIENCE EDITOR
PUBLICITY OFFICER
TO DISCUSS WHAT’S INVOLVED OR TO STATE YOUR INTEREST, PLEASE CONTACT ME VIA EMAIL: bluestocking.editor@gmail.com
GEORGIA MIZEN,
GENERAL EDITOR
Issue 10. The Conflict Issue
The Bluestocking team would like to invite you to take a look at our fantastic new issue. Our writers and editors have interpreted the term ‘conflict’ in numerous different ways to explore the creative and intellectual contributions of women throughout history.
New Patron
Bluestocking is delighted to announce that Dr Maria Rubins has agreed to become a patron of Bluestocking.
Maria Rubins was born and raised in Russia. After graduating from Saint Petersburg State University and a brief period of teaching Russian culture and language at the State Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography, she left for the United States, where she received a PhD degree in literature from Brown University. Currently, she divides her time between Paris and London. She teaches Russian and comparative literature at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies, is a member of the Institut d’Etudes Slaves (Paris) and an associate member of the ‘Centre d’Etudes sur la Russie, le Caucase et l’Europe Centrale’ at the ‘Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique’ (France). Her research interests include Russian and French literary and cultural relations, exile, Russian émigré literature, bilingual and transnational writing, Russian-language literature in Israel, and the interaction between texts and the visual arts.
Maria Rubins is the author of Crossroad of Arts, Crossroad of Cultures: Ecphrasis in Russian and French Poetry (2000; Russian edition – 2003) and the editor of the volume Russian Émigré Writers of the Twentieth Century of the Dictionary of Literary Biography (2005), a university textbook on Russian émigré literature of the first wave (2011), and collected volumes of academic articles. She has edited and annotated volumes of selected prose by Russian émigré writers of the inter-war Parisian diaspora, including Irina Odoevtseva and Vasily Yanovsky. She has translated from English into Russian Vasily Yanovsky’s memoir on W.H. Auden, and from French into Russian Judith Gautier’s memoirs on Wagner and several novels by Irène Némirovsky and Arnaud Delalande.
In recent years, she has taken part in a number of radio programmes on the culture of the Russian diaspora of the BBC Russian Service, Radio 4 and Voice of Russia. She practices ashtanga yoga and enjoys travelling, downhill skiing, tango and opera.
