Lucy Delap
Biographic Data
| ID | 1049591 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucy Delap |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucy |
| FAMILY NAME | Delap |
| SIGNATURE | DELAP L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5981-252X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Globalizing Europe
Globalizing Europe explores modern Europe's myriad entanglements with the wider world, considering the continent not only as an engine but also as a product of global transformations. It looks at the ways in which the global movements of peoples and ideas, goods and raw materials, flora and fauna have impacted life on the continent over the centuries. Bringing together a group of leading historians, the book shows how the history of Europe can be…
Slow Workers
This article surveys the experiences of historical actors labelled 'mentally defective' and 'mentally handicapped' in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. It decentres institutions and experiences of segregation, and instead foregrounds employment as a way to historicise and make visible the experiences of individuals with intellectual impairments who lived in communities. The article discusses significant opportunities for paid em…
John Davis. Waterloo Sunrise
Journal Article John Davis. Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher. Get access John Davis. Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. Pp. x, 588. Cloth $34.95. Lucy Delap Lucy Delap Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, England Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5981-252X Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar T…
Digital Humanities, Citizen Science and Feminist History
One of the co-editors of this special issue of Histoire sociale / Social History, Marc Calvini-Lefebvre, is currently running a digital mapping project which seeks to crowdsource information about the sites of memory dedicated to the suffrage movement around the world and geolocate them on an open-software map. His initiative is one of many digital mapping projects launched by historians of feminism around the world as a means of spreading knowle…
Rethinking rapes
The last quarter of the twentieth century saw significant innovations in theorisation and politicisation of sexual violence. This article examines the impact of feminist work on rape and male sexuality in Britain, witnessed through the ‘sex lives’ of male supporters of the women’s movement. I draw on oral histories, life writing and anti-sexist men’s magazines to investigate moments of disclosure and re-evaluation of men’s sexual encounters. The …
Feminist Business Praxis and Spare Rib Magazine
This article analyses the 'business praxis' of the feminist magazine Spare Rib, one of UK feminism's most enduring cultural institutions. It discusses the diverse ways Spare Rib sustained itself financially (or not), with reference to the role of advertising, distribution, revenue and wages. I explore how Spare Rib developed ethical approaches to business through supporting other women-led business endeavours and attempting to balance profitabili…
Feminism and market capitalism
Feminism, Masculinities and Emotional Politics in Late Twentieth Century Britain
Feminism posed powerful political and emotional challenges to progressive men in the 1970s and 1980s. This article investigates politically and personally motivated attempts to ‘feel differently’ by men in britain who identified as ‘antisexist’ and aligned themselves with the women’s liberation movement. I discuss two sites of 'rescripting’ emotions – consciousness-raising and childcare - and reflect on the complex emotional impact on men of the …
Helen Glew, Gender, Rhetoric and Regulation
Disgusting Details Which Are Best Forgotten
For those who by the end of the twentieth century came to be termed "survivors" of child sexual abuse, different genres and forms have been available to narrate and evaluate that abuse. This article explores the reception and practical results of such disclosures: the unpredictable effects of telling, and the strategies of containment, silencing, or disbelief that greeted disclosures. I make note of the ethical challenges of writing the history o…
Uneasy Solidarity
Raffaella Baccolini and Delia Chiaro
Feminist Bookshops, Reading Cultures and the Women’s Liberation Movement in Great Britain, c. 1974–2000
Historians of the Women’s Liberation Movement have long stressed its decentralized form, with a deliberate refusal of the infrastructure of leaders and formal institutions. Instead, like other social movements of the 1970s and 80 s, periodicals, networks of friends, and informal meeting places tended to provide the impetus for the development and diffusion of feminist ideas and strategies of protest. This article examines the significant role tha…
Nanny Knows Best
Uneven Orientalisms
Victorian and Edwardian Anglo-American feminists had long deployed ‘orientalist’ imagery to convey the depths of the oppression of women by men and the negative impact that this might have upon society. There has therefore been a historiographical consensus that the British and Americans imagined that they were globally pre-eminent in terms of gender equity. Yet within this broadly ‘orientalist’ discourse, there was a curious exception made on be…
Feminist Media History
Highlighting the contributions of feminist media history to media studies and related disciplines, this book focuses on feminist periodicals emerging from or reacting to the Edwardian suffrage campaig
Housework, Housewives, and Domestic Workers
This article sets established historical narratives of a mid-twentieth-century turn to privacy, new domestic identities, and new ways of thinking about housework into a broader history of domestic service. I argue that the new forms of domesticity were only ever partially and unevenly established in middle-class households. Domestic service emerges as a tenacious institution, which continued to be influential in the organization of middle-class o…
Kitchen-Sink Laughter
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Master and Servant
Campaigns of Curiosity”
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Theoria Referees
Self-determination, race, and empire
Thus Does Man Prove His Fitness to Be the Master of Things’
This paper critically examines the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century revival of chivalry in Britain, with a particular emphasis on chivalry at sea. It gives a history to the so-called 'eternal law of the sea', the chivalric code of 'women and children first' during shipwrecks. For most of the nineteenth century, chivalry at sea had been organized around national identity, as well as class and race divisions between men. For Edwardians, the …
Feminist and anti-feminist encounters in Edwardian Britain
This article highlights anti-feminism as a neglected source in British debates about gender in the early twentieth century. It examines Edwardian feminism and anti-feminism within the ‘little magazines’ of ‘advanced’ or modernist circles, and explores the lack of conceptual distinctness of thinkers who identified themselves, or have been subsequently identified, as on opposite sides of the political spectrum. Through an examination of articles wi…
The Superwoman
This article examines the development of the idea of the ‘superwoman’ among British Edwardian feminists and contextualizes it within the aristocratic political thought of the day. I examine the idea of the ‘genius’ and the ‘superman’ in order to shed light on why, for some Edwardian feminists, the ideal feminist agent was to be an elite, discerning, remote figure. I argue that Edwardian feminism witnessed an ‘introspective turn’, marked by an int…
Disgusting Details Which Are Best Forgotten
For those who by the end of the twentieth century came to be termed "survivors" of child sexual abuse, different genres and forms have been available to narrate and evaluate that abuse. This article explores the reception and practical results of such disclosures: the unpredictable effects of telling, and the strategies of containment, silencing, or disbelief that greeted disclosures. I make note of the ethical challenges of writing the history o…
Kitchen-Sink Laughter
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Feminist Business Praxis and Spare Rib Magazine
This article analyses the 'business praxis' of the feminist magazine Spare Rib, one of UK feminism's most enduring cultural institutions. It discusses the diverse ways Spare Rib sustained itself financially (or not), with reference to the role of advertising, distribution, revenue and wages. I explore how Spare Rib developed ethical approaches to business through supporting other women-led business endeavours and attempting to balance profitabili…
Feminist Bookshops, Reading Cultures and the Women’s Liberation Movement in Great Britain, c. 1974–2000
Historians of the Women’s Liberation Movement have long stressed its decentralized form, with a deliberate refusal of the infrastructure of leaders and formal institutions. Instead, like other social movements of the 1970s and 80 s, periodicals, networks of friends, and informal meeting places tended to provide the impetus for the development and diffusion of feminist ideas and strategies of protest. This article examines the significant role tha…
Housework, Housewives, and Domestic Workers
This article sets established historical narratives of a mid-twentieth-century turn to privacy, new domestic identities, and new ways of thinking about housework into a broader history of domestic service. I argue that the new forms of domesticity were only ever partially and unevenly established in middle-class households. Domestic service emerges as a tenacious institution, which continued to be influential in the organization of middle-class o…
The Superwoman
This article examines the development of the idea of the ‘superwoman’ among British Edwardian feminists and contextualizes it within the aristocratic political thought of the day. I examine the idea of the ‘genius’ and the ‘superman’ in order to shed light on why, for some Edwardian feminists, the ideal feminist agent was to be an elite, discerning, remote figure. I argue that Edwardian feminism witnessed an ‘introspective turn’, marked by an int…
Uneven Orientalisms
Victorian and Edwardian Anglo-American feminists had long deployed ‘orientalist’ imagery to convey the depths of the oppression of women by men and the negative impact that this might have upon society. There has therefore been a historiographical consensus that the British and Americans imagined that they were globally pre-eminent in terms of gender equity. Yet within this broadly ‘orientalist’ discourse, there was a curious exception made on be…
Self-determination, race, and empire
Feminist and anti-feminist encounters in Edwardian Britain
This article highlights anti-feminism as a neglected source in British debates about gender in the early twentieth century. It examines Edwardian feminism and anti-feminism within the ‘little magazines’ of ‘advanced’ or modernist circles, and explores the lack of conceptual distinctness of thinkers who identified themselves, or have been subsequently identified, as on opposite sides of the political spectrum. Through an examination of articles wi…
Philosophical vacuity and political ineptitude
The Freewoman has commonly been read as an example of New Woman periodical publishing, through its focus on women's sexuality and autonomy from men. The journal appears to offer a more daring, twentieth-century and modern ‘new woman’, more willing than even her 1890s counterpart to embrace free unions or sexual experimentation. The Freewoman's extraordinary discussions of sexuality have tended to distract historians' attention from other elements…
Philosophical vacuity and political ineptitude
The Freewoman has commonly been read as an example of New Woman periodical publishing, through its focus on women's sexuality and autonomy from men. The journal appears to offer a more daring, twentieth-century and modern ‘new woman’, more willing than even her 1890s counterpart to embrace free unions or sexual experimentation. The Freewoman's extraordinary discussions of sexuality have tended to distract historians' attention from other elements…
The Superwoman
This article examines the development of the idea of the ‘superwoman’ among British Edwardian feminists and contextualizes it within the aristocratic political thought of the day. I examine the idea of the ‘genius’ and the ‘superman’ in order to shed light on why, for some Edwardian feminists, the ideal feminist agent was to be an elite, discerning, remote figure. I argue that Edwardian feminism witnessed an ‘introspective turn’, marked by an int…
Thus Does Man Prove His Fitness to Be the Master of Things’
This paper critically examines the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century revival of chivalry in Britain, with a particular emphasis on chivalry at sea. It gives a history to the so-called 'eternal law of the sea', the chivalric code of 'women and children first' during shipwrecks. For most of the nineteenth century, chivalry at sea had been organized around national identity, as well as class and race divisions between men. For Edwardians, the …
Feminist and anti-feminist encounters in Edwardian Britain
This article highlights anti-feminism as a neglected source in British debates about gender in the early twentieth century. It examines Edwardian feminism and anti-feminism within the ‘little magazines’ of ‘advanced’ or modernist circles, and explores the lack of conceptual distinctness of thinkers who identified themselves, or have been subsequently identified, as on opposite sides of the political spectrum. Through an examination of articles wi…
Theoria Referees
Self-determination, race, and empire
Campaigns of Curiosity”
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Master and Servant
Kitchen-Sink Laughter
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Feminist Media History
Highlighting the contributions of feminist media history to media studies and related disciplines, this book focuses on feminist periodicals emerging from or reacting to the Edwardian suffrage campaig
Housework, Housewives, and Domestic Workers
This article sets established historical narratives of a mid-twentieth-century turn to privacy, new domestic identities, and new ways of thinking about housework into a broader history of domestic service. I argue that the new forms of domesticity were only ever partially and unevenly established in middle-class households. Domestic service emerges as a tenacious institution, which continued to be influential in the organization of middle-class o…
Uneven Orientalisms
Victorian and Edwardian Anglo-American feminists had long deployed ‘orientalist’ imagery to convey the depths of the oppression of women by men and the negative impact that this might have upon society. There has therefore been a historiographical consensus that the British and Americans imagined that they were globally pre-eminent in terms of gender equity. Yet within this broadly ‘orientalist’ discourse, there was a curious exception made on be…
Nanny Knows Best
Raffaella Baccolini and Delia Chiaro
Feminist Bookshops, Reading Cultures and the Women’s Liberation Movement in Great Britain, c. 1974–2000
Historians of the Women’s Liberation Movement have long stressed its decentralized form, with a deliberate refusal of the infrastructure of leaders and formal institutions. Instead, like other social movements of the 1970s and 80 s, periodicals, networks of friends, and informal meeting places tended to provide the impetus for the development and diffusion of feminist ideas and strategies of protest. This article examines the significant role tha…
Uneasy Solidarity
Feminism, Masculinities and Emotional Politics in Late Twentieth Century Britain
Feminism posed powerful political and emotional challenges to progressive men in the 1970s and 1980s. This article investigates politically and personally motivated attempts to ‘feel differently’ by men in britain who identified as ‘antisexist’ and aligned themselves with the women’s liberation movement. I discuss two sites of 'rescripting’ emotions – consciousness-raising and childcare - and reflect on the complex emotional impact on men of the …
Helen Glew, Gender, Rhetoric and Regulation
Disgusting Details Which Are Best Forgotten
For those who by the end of the twentieth century came to be termed "survivors" of child sexual abuse, different genres and forms have been available to narrate and evaluate that abuse. This article explores the reception and practical results of such disclosures: the unpredictable effects of telling, and the strategies of containment, silencing, or disbelief that greeted disclosures. I make note of the ethical challenges of writing the history o…
Feminism and market capitalism
Feminist Business Praxis and Spare Rib Magazine
This article analyses the 'business praxis' of the feminist magazine Spare Rib, one of UK feminism's most enduring cultural institutions. It discusses the diverse ways Spare Rib sustained itself financially (or not), with reference to the role of advertising, distribution, revenue and wages. I explore how Spare Rib developed ethical approaches to business through supporting other women-led business endeavours and attempting to balance profitabili…
Rethinking rapes
The last quarter of the twentieth century saw significant innovations in theorisation and politicisation of sexual violence. This article examines the impact of feminist work on rape and male sexuality in Britain, witnessed through the ‘sex lives’ of male supporters of the women’s movement. I draw on oral histories, life writing and anti-sexist men’s magazines to investigate moments of disclosure and re-evaluation of men’s sexual encounters. The …
Slow Workers
This article surveys the experiences of historical actors labelled 'mentally defective' and 'mentally handicapped' in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. It decentres institutions and experiences of segregation, and instead foregrounds employment as a way to historicise and make visible the experiences of individuals with intellectual impairments who lived in communities. The article discusses significant opportunities for paid em…
John Davis. Waterloo Sunrise
Journal Article John Davis. Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher. Get access John Davis. Waterloo Sunrise: London from the Sixties to Thatcher. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. Pp. x, 588. Cloth $34.95. Lucy Delap Lucy Delap Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, England Email: [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5981-252X Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar T…
Digital Humanities, Citizen Science and Feminist History
One of the co-editors of this special issue of Histoire sociale / Social History, Marc Calvini-Lefebvre, is currently running a digital mapping project which seeks to crowdsource information about the sites of memory dedicated to the suffrage movement around the world and geolocate them on an open-software map. His initiative is one of many digital mapping projects launched by historians of feminism around the world as a means of spreading knowle…
Sociology (21 works) · Political science (16 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · History (9 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works)