Archiv für Juli 2016

‘Writing’ Black Womanhood in the Early Cuban Republic, 1904–16

This article explores the intersection of race, class and womanhood during the early years of the Cuban Republic. It focuses on the writings of elite women who published in the black press between 1904 and 1916. While legal reforms and the expansion o…

Critical Thoughts on Keywords in Gender and History: An Introduction

This introduction lays out the key themes addressed in the Forum and emphasises the importance of understanding historical description and theory as mutually constitutive. The contributions to the Forum interrogate key categories of analysis in femini…

Tanya  Fitzgerald and Elizabeth M.  Smyth (eds), Women Educators, Leaders and Activists: Educational Lives and Networks, 1900–1960 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. v + 214. ISBN 978-1-137-30351-6 (hb).

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12235

Eileen J.  Suárez Findlay, We Are Left without a Father Here: Masculinity, Domesticity, and Migration in Postwar Puerto Rico (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014), pp. xii + 300. ISBN 978-0-8223-5766-7 (hb); 978-0-8223-5782-7 (pb).

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12232

Anne-Marie  Kilday, A History of Infanticide in Britain, c.1600 to the Present, (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. 338. ISBN 978-0-230-54707-0 (hb).

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12221

Erratum to ‘“The Gospel of Health”: American Missionaries and the Transformation of Ottoman/Turkish Women’s Bodies, 1890–1932’

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12237

Affection and Assimilation: Concubinage and the Ideal of Conjugal Love in Colonial Korea, 1922–38

This article explores how selective application of Japanese divorce laws between 1922 and 1938, which obstructed Korean women from obtaining divorce on the grounds of concubinage, affected the meaning of conjugal relationships in colonial Korea. I arg…

Leonore Davidoff and the Founding of Gender & History

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12206

Helen  McCarthy, Women of the World: The Rise of the Female Diplomat (London: Bloomsbury, 2014), pp. xii + 416. ISBN: 978-1-408-84004-7 (pb).

Quelle: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi?DOI=10.1111%2F1468-0424.12226

Historicising Agency

Why has ‘agency’ been such a tenacious concept in historical scholarship on women and gender, and what have been the consequences on this tenacity? This essay tackles these questions and proposes, through a brief examination of the history of skin…