oldestvocation
oldestvocation
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In an earlier life, I taught and wrote books and articles about medieval history, including "Mystic and Pilgrim: The 'Book' and the World of Margery Kempe" and "The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Middle Ages."
More recently I turned my attention to the 1950s and found Claudia Cumberbatch Jones, the black radical feminist who was deported from the U.S. in the McCarthy years. In London she founded and edited the West Indian Gazette. I published an essay about Claudia Jones in the Women’s Review of Books in 2006: “A Strange and Terrible Sight in Our Country.” In 2008-09 I was a Fellow at the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University conducting further research on Claudia Jones.
Lately I’ve been thinking about coming of age in the 1950s.
You can find and buy my books at: http://www.amazon.com/author/clarissawatkinson
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