Alison Oram
Biographic Data
| ID | 990140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison Oram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison |
| FAMILY NAME | Oram |
| SIGNATURE | ORAM A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leeds Beckett University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-3660-0023 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Primroses, Preservation and Neo-paganism: Queer Connections to the English Countryside
This article examines some elements of queer rural life in England between the late nineteenth and late twentieth centuries. It discusses a selection of queer people who had a profound relationship to the English countryside and considers how they established their personal lives in rural contexts and how far their significant interactions with rural England might be said to be queer. Taken together, their lives and work illustrate three themes t…
Making Place and Community: Contrasting Lesbian and Gay, Feminist and Queer Oral History Projects in Brighton and Leeds
LGBTQ communities across Britain have created dozens of local history projects, especially in recent years. Springing from distinctive local towns and cities, these oral history projects have mostly, since 2000, been publicly funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. This article compares the aims, approaches, and structures of queer community history-making over the past thirty years in two English cities, the south coast seaside resort of Brighton, …
The Lesbian History Sourcebook: Love and Sex Between Women in Britain From 1780-1970
This groundbreaking critical anthology gathers together a wide range of primary source material on lesbian lives in the past. The material here is drawn from a diverse range of sources, including court records, newspaper reports, literary sources, writings on lesbianism from psychologists, doctors, anthropologists, as well as personal letters and journals. The sources are arranged into thematic chapters, covering topics such as archetypes of lesb…
Her Husband was a Woman!: Women's Gender-Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture
Tracking the changing representation of female gender-crossing in the press, this text breaks new ground to reveal findings where both desire between women and cross-gender identification are understood. Her Husband was a Woman! exposes real-life case studies from the British tabloids of women who successfully passed as men in everyday life, perhaps marrying other women or fighting for their country. Oram revises assumptions about the history of …
Sexuality in Heterotopia: Time, Space and Love Between Women in the Historic House
The presentation of historic houses in Britain generally reflects dominant ideas about the national past, and mobilises familiar narratives about aristocracy, class, lineage and family in order to forge a sense of stability and national identity. While the representation of women, ethnic and national identities and sexuality has been widely contested and debated in museum studies over recent years, these themes remain under-explored in the litera…
Going on an outing: The historic house and queer public history
Using the metaphor of ghosting, this article examines the ways in which lesbian, gay, queer (and other) visitors have looked for sexual dissidence in historic houses and their former inhabitants by exploring the complicated processes through which visitors both identify with those queer past lives, and experience a sense of otherness or historical distance from them. It focuses in particular on two sites: Plas Newydd, home of the Ladies of Llango…
Men must be educated and women must do it”: The National Federation (later Union) of Women Teachers and contemporary feminism 1910–30’
The Lesbian History Sourcebook: Love and Sex Between Women in Britain from 1780-1970
Introduction 1. Cross-Dressing Women 2. Romantic Friends and Lesbian Couples 3. Medicine 4. Education 5. Law 6. The Well of Loneliness 7. Social Perceptions 8. Identities and Networks Bibliography
Feminism, Androgyny and Love between Women in Urania, 1916-1940
(2001). Feminism, Androgyny and Love between Women in Urania, 1916-1940. Media History: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 57-70
Women Teachers and Feminist Politics 1900-39
The attractions of teaching as a career for women - 1900-1939 work, family life and moving towards feminism fighting for equality 1900-1920 equal of different? - feminist strategies 1920-1939 thwarted spinsters? marital status and feminist politics
Women who taught: Perspectives on the History of Women and Teaching
Repressed and thwarted, or bearer of the new world? the spinster in inter-war feminist discourses
Early twentieth-century sexology and psychology lent new weight to popular representations of the spinster as unfulfilled and sexually repressed and, it has been suggested, silenced a feminist politics of spinsterhood. In this article I argue against this interpretation and discuss the writings of individual feminists who were actively engaged in both rejecting and reworking this view of the spinster. Feminist doctors, in a group of books about t…
Men Must be Educated and Women Must Do If: The National Federation (later Union) of Women Teachers and contemporary feminism 1910‐30
This article explores the feminist politics of the National Union of Women Teachers (NUWT) between 1910 and 1930. It argues that the Union was as much a part of contemporary feminism as educational trade unionism. The feminist teachers were conscious of the effect of the State on their lives and saw their enfranchisement as a way of obtaining a voice in the educational and political arena. The article explores their development as equal rights fe…
Homosexuality, Which Homosexuality: Essays from the International Scientific Conference on Lesbian and Gay Studies
Women Teachers and Feminist Politics 1900-39
The attractions of teaching as a career for women - 1900-1939 work, family life and moving towards feminism fighting for equality 1900-1920 equal of different? - feminist strategies 1920-1939 thwarted spinsters? marital status and feminist politics
Repressed and thwarted, or bearer of the new world? the spinster in inter-war feminist discourses
Early twentieth-century sexology and psychology lent new weight to popular representations of the spinster as unfulfilled and sexually repressed and, it has been suggested, silenced a feminist politics of spinsterhood. In this article I argue against this interpretation and discuss the writings of individual feminists who were actively engaged in both rejecting and reworking this view of the spinster. Feminist doctors, in a group of books about t…
Going on an outing: The historic house and queer public history
Using the metaphor of ghosting, this article examines the ways in which lesbian, gay, queer (and other) visitors have looked for sexual dissidence in historic houses and their former inhabitants by exploring the complicated processes through which visitors both identify with those queer past lives, and experience a sense of otherness or historical distance from them. It focuses in particular on two sites: Plas Newydd, home of the Ladies of Llango…
Men Must be Educated and Women Must Do If: The National Federation (later Union) of Women Teachers and contemporary feminism 1910‐30
This article explores the feminist politics of the National Union of Women Teachers (NUWT) between 1910 and 1930. It argues that the Union was as much a part of contemporary feminism as educational trade unionism. The feminist teachers were conscious of the effect of the State on their lives and saw their enfranchisement as a way of obtaining a voice in the educational and political arena. The article explores their development as equal rights fe…
Making Place and Community: Contrasting Lesbian and Gay, Feminist and Queer Oral History Projects in Brighton and Leeds
LGBTQ communities across Britain have created dozens of local history projects, especially in recent years. Springing from distinctive local towns and cities, these oral history projects have mostly, since 2000, been publicly funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. This article compares the aims, approaches, and structures of queer community history-making over the past thirty years in two English cities, the south coast seaside resort of Brighton, …
Sexuality in Heterotopia: Time, Space and Love Between Women in the Historic House
The presentation of historic houses in Britain generally reflects dominant ideas about the national past, and mobilises familiar narratives about aristocracy, class, lineage and family in order to forge a sense of stability and national identity. While the representation of women, ethnic and national identities and sexuality has been widely contested and debated in museum studies over recent years, these themes remain under-explored in the litera…
Men must be educated and women must do it”: The National Federation (later Union) of Women Teachers and contemporary feminism 1910–30’
Men Must be Educated and Women Must Do If: The National Federation (later Union) of Women Teachers and contemporary feminism 1910‐30
This article explores the feminist politics of the National Union of Women Teachers (NUWT) between 1910 and 1930. It argues that the Union was as much a part of contemporary feminism as educational trade unionism. The feminist teachers were conscious of the effect of the State on their lives and saw their enfranchisement as a way of obtaining a voice in the educational and political arena. The article explores their development as equal rights fe…
Homosexuality, Which Homosexuality: Essays from the International Scientific Conference on Lesbian and Gay Studies
Repressed and thwarted, or bearer of the new world? the spinster in inter-war feminist discourses
Early twentieth-century sexology and psychology lent new weight to popular representations of the spinster as unfulfilled and sexually repressed and, it has been suggested, silenced a feminist politics of spinsterhood. In this article I argue against this interpretation and discuss the writings of individual feminists who were actively engaged in both rejecting and reworking this view of the spinster. Feminist doctors, in a group of books about t…
Women who taught: Perspectives on the History of Women and Teaching
Women Teachers and Feminist Politics 1900-39
The attractions of teaching as a career for women - 1900-1939 work, family life and moving towards feminism fighting for equality 1900-1920 equal of different? - feminist strategies 1920-1939 thwarted spinsters? marital status and feminist politics
The Lesbian History Sourcebook: Love and Sex Between Women in Britain from 1780-1970
Introduction 1. Cross-Dressing Women 2. Romantic Friends and Lesbian Couples 3. Medicine 4. Education 5. Law 6. The Well of Loneliness 7. Social Perceptions 8. Identities and Networks Bibliography
Feminism, Androgyny and Love between Women in Urania, 1916-1940
(2001). Feminism, Androgyny and Love between Women in Urania, 1916-1940. Media History: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 57-70
Men must be educated and women must do it”: The National Federation (later Union) of Women Teachers and contemporary feminism 1910–30’
Going on an outing: The historic house and queer public history
Using the metaphor of ghosting, this article examines the ways in which lesbian, gay, queer (and other) visitors have looked for sexual dissidence in historic houses and their former inhabitants by exploring the complicated processes through which visitors both identify with those queer past lives, and experience a sense of otherness or historical distance from them. It focuses in particular on two sites: Plas Newydd, home of the Ladies of Llango…
Sexuality in Heterotopia: Time, Space and Love Between Women in the Historic House
The presentation of historic houses in Britain generally reflects dominant ideas about the national past, and mobilises familiar narratives about aristocracy, class, lineage and family in order to forge a sense of stability and national identity. While the representation of women, ethnic and national identities and sexuality has been widely contested and debated in museum studies over recent years, these themes remain under-explored in the litera…
The Lesbian History Sourcebook: Love and Sex Between Women in Britain From 1780-1970
This groundbreaking critical anthology gathers together a wide range of primary source material on lesbian lives in the past. The material here is drawn from a diverse range of sources, including court records, newspaper reports, literary sources, writings on lesbianism from psychologists, doctors, anthropologists, as well as personal letters and journals. The sources are arranged into thematic chapters, covering topics such as archetypes of lesb…
Her Husband was a Woman!: Women's Gender-Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture
Tracking the changing representation of female gender-crossing in the press, this text breaks new ground to reveal findings where both desire between women and cross-gender identification are understood. Her Husband was a Woman! exposes real-life case studies from the British tabloids of women who successfully passed as men in everyday life, perhaps marrying other women or fighting for their country. Oram revises assumptions about the history of …
Making Place and Community: Contrasting Lesbian and Gay, Feminist and Queer Oral History Projects in Brighton and Leeds
LGBTQ communities across Britain have created dozens of local history projects, especially in recent years. Springing from distinctive local towns and cities, these oral history projects have mostly, since 2000, been publicly funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund. This article compares the aims, approaches, and structures of queer community history-making over the past thirty years in two English cities, the south coast seaside resort of Brighton, …
Primroses, Preservation and Neo-paganism: Queer Connections to the English Countryside
This article examines some elements of queer rural life in England between the late nineteenth and late twentieth centuries. It discusses a selection of queer people who had a profound relationship to the English countryside and considers how they established their personal lives in rural contexts and how far their significant interactions with rural England might be said to be queer. Taken together, their lives and work illustrate three themes t…
Gender Studies (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Feminism (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · History (6 works) · Lesbian (6 works) · Politics (5 works)