Archiv für Juli 2016

Mourned Choices and Grievable Lives: The Anti-Abortion Movement’s Influence in Defining the Abortion Experience in Australia Since the 1960s

This article provides a genealogy of foetocentric grief, an emotion that permeates accounts of abortion in Australia across multiple discursive sites. Foetocentric grief represents women as indelibly mourning their ‘unborn children’ after abortion…

Philip  Grace, Affectionate Authorities: Fathers and Fatherly Roles in Late Medieval Basel (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015), pp. x + 186. ISBN 978-1-4724-4554-4 (hb).

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12223

Merrill D.  Smith (ed.), Cultural Encyclopedia of the Breast (Lanham: Rownan and Littlefield, 2014), pp. xi + 288. ISBN 978-0-7591-2331-1 (hb); 978-0-7591-2332-8 (ebook).

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12228

Bronwen  Neil and Lynda  Garland (eds), Questions of Gender in Byzantine Society (Ashgate: Farnham, 2013), pp. x + 218. ISBN 978-1-4094-4779-5 (hb), 978-1-4094-4780-1 (ebook), 978-1-4094-7449-4 (ePUB). Judith  Herrin, Unrivalled Influence: Women and Empire in Byzantium (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013), pp. xix + 328. ISBN 978-0-691-15321-6.

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12222

Gary  Waller, A Cultural Study of Mary and the Annunciation: From Luke to the Enlightenment (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2015), pp. 256. ISBN 1-848-93575-7 (hb).

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12225

‘Poor Gordon’: What the Australian Cult of Adam Lindsay Gordon Tells Us About Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Masculine Sentimentality

The popularity of the British-born Australian poet and sportsman, Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870), flowered after his death. Between 1870 and 1920, he was widely extolled as an exemplar of the Australian bushman and of British imperial masculinity a…

‘Intersectionality’, Socialist Feminism and Contemporary Activism: Musings by a Second-Wave Socialist Feminist

1970s socialist feminist theory in the USA, like older socialist feminisms, anticipated much of today’s ‘intersectionality’ by recognising multiple forms of domination and refusing to rank them in importance. Today’s intersectionality has gone fur…

Should we Abstain? Spousal Equality in Twelfth-century Byzantine Canon Law

Spousal equality was not an ideal to which medieval societies generally aspired. Discussions about social order advocated a strict hierarchical structure: the man was to be the head of the household and the master of his wife. Did this subservient sta…

Knightly Masculinity, Court Games and Material Culture in Late-medieval Portugal: The Case of Constable Afonso (c.1480–1504)

This article explores the ways in which gender was used in order to transform an exiled and uneducated illegitimate child into a prince. Our study revolves around a member of the royal family, Afonso (c.1480–1504), who was brought up in hiding by pe…

Josephine  Hoegaerts, Masculinity and Nationhood, 1830–1910: Constructions of Identity and Citizenship in Belgium (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2014), pp. xii + 242. 978-1-137-39199-5 (hb).

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12227