Mapping race and gender in the academy: the experiences of women of colour faculty and graduate students in Britain,the US and Canada

This paper examines the experiences of women of colour in geography. An analysis of qualitative, open‐ended questionnaires with women of colour geography faculty and graduate students in North America and Britain suggests that policies and practices within geography departments continue to reflect a pervasive persistence of racialized and gendered inequities in the workplace. There has been relatively little application of theoretical work on race and gender to the minority experience within geography. Some strategies suggested to challenge racialized and gendered barriers that limit women of colour's full participation in geography include a proactive recruitment programme, diversification of the curriculum and development of mentoring.     

Uxores, ancillae and dominae: women in thirteenth-century Hungary in the Register of Várad

Women’s history for Árpád-era Hungary (1000–1301) has generally been restricted to legal issues and the royal court. This study addresses these deficiencies by examining women in the Register of Várad in regard to three areas of investigation: marriage practices and the involvement of the Church, access women had to property and the access women had to authority. Evidence from the register indicates that by the thirteenth century, ecclesiastical ideas regarding marriage were barely making themselves felt. Ideas of consent and even the indissolubility of marriage were at times unimportant. Though priests were occasionally present at marriages, their role was not decisive. Women had three primary means of obtaining property. They could receive gifts or dower on the event of their wedding, and they could receive a portion of the patrimony. This inheritance was termed the quarta filialis as it amounted to no more than one-quarter of the father’s property. These gifts came under the control of the woman’s husband, and she could not access them until his death. Widowhood combined with guardianship of a minor son could allow women to exert considerable power and, just as elsewhere in Latin Europe, women’s access to public and private authority most approximated that of men’s as a widow. Not all women, of course, had access to such power. The Register of Várad shows numerous instances of women slaves who were under the complete control of their master.     

对《列女仁智图》的新认识

2001年在大英博物馆举办的《女史箴图》国际学术讨论会上,我曾从山水画的发展脉络并辅以服饰、器具等图像资料,论证了《女史箴图》非顾恺之作,而应是一幅北魏孝文帝当政时期的宫廷绘画作品。在认识传世早期绘画作品的过程中,当文献严重失载的情况下,借助考古发掘图像资料是解决一些问题的惟一办法。从这一方法入手,我认为传为顾恺之的《列女仁智图》虽然被公认为宋人摹本,但是它的原本要早于《女史箴图》,这不但有司马金龙墓出土的漆屏风画《列女古贤图》为证,而且从衣冠服饰及其它器具的图像也可证明,它的原本可以早到东汉时代。从反复传模中能保存这样久远的图像并且能真实地反映当时的生活,这件摹本的价值就非同寻常了,至于是否顾恺之作,就不甚重要了。