Christianity, Islam and Judaism

Clothing was used as not only a way to display ones’ membership to a certain group but it was also a way for Muslims and Jews to differentiate themselves from Christians. The idea of integration and miscegenation was such a…

Costuming and kinship

Societies that are dominated by the importance of kinship, costume becomes one way to express and display that membership. Societies have long used costume to distinguish themselves from other tribes and the Ancient Egyptians are no exception. Each piece of…

Response: Beatrice Webb

Response: Beatrice Webb

Beatrice Webb was the third investigator in Charles Booth’s East End census project. She was his cousin by marriage, and is not typically associated with Life and Labour of the People in London because her interviews were never formally published…

Response: Clara Collet

Response: Clara Collet

Ever since their modern commercialization, the Ripper murders have been accused of promoting misogyny. Feminists have argued that the creation of the “Ripper industry”  has “glamorized violence against women, fetishized the murder of prostitutes, and commercially exploited real-life murder victims”…