Gabaccia / Maynes Gender History Across Epistemologies

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-50823-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Gender and History Special Issues

Gender History Across Epistemologies offers broad rangeof innovative approaches to gender history. The essays reveal howhistorians of gender are crossing boundaries - disciplinary,methodological, and national - to explore new opportunities forviewing gender as a category of historical analysis.
* Essays present epistemological and theoretical debates centralin gender history over the past two decades
* Contributions within this volume to the work on gender historyare approached from a wide range of disciplinary locations andapproaches
* The volume demonstrates that recent approaches to genderhistory suggest surprising crossovers and even the discovery ofcommon grounds

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gabaccia, Donna R.

Maynes, Mary Jo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors vii
Introduction: Gender History Across Epistemologies 1
DONNA R. GABACCIA AND MARY JO MAYNES
1 Master Narratives and the Wall Painting of the House of theVettii, Pompeii 20
BETH SEVERY-HOVEN
2 'More Beautiful than Words & Pencil CanExpress': Barbara Bodichon's Artistic Career at theInterface of her Epistolary and Visual Self Projections 61
MERITXELL SIMON-MARTIN
3 Public Motherhood in West Africa as Theory and Practice80
LORELLE SEMLEY
4 Profiling the Female Emigrant: A Method of Linguistic Inquiryfor Examining Correspondence Collections 97
EMMA MORETON
5 Beyond Constructivism?: Gender, Medicine and the Early Historyof Sperm Analysis, Germany 1870-1900 127
CHRISTINA BENNINGHAUS
6 'I Just Express My Views & Leave Them toWork': Olive Schreiner as a Feminist Protagonist in aMasculine Political Landscape with Figures 157
LIZ STANLEY AND HELEN DAMPIER
7 Gender without Groups: Confession, Resistance and Selfhood inthe Colonial Archive 181
CHRISTOPHER J. LEE
8 The Power of Renewable Resources: Orlando's TacticalEngagement with the Law of Intestacy 198
JAMIE L. MCDANIEL
9 The Politics of Gender Concepts in Genetics and HormoneResearch in Germany, 1900-1940 215
HELGA SATZINGER
10 The Language of Gender in Lovers' Correspondence,1946-1949 235
SONIA CANCIAN
11 Gender-Bending in El Teatro Campesino (1968-1980): AMestiza Epistemology of Performance 246
MEREDITH HELLER
12 Changing Paradigms in Migration Studies: From Men to Women toGender 262
NANCY L. GREEN
13 Reconsidering Categories of Analysis: Possibilities forFeminist Studies of Conflict 279
SHIRIN SAEIDI
14 An Epistemology of Collusion: Hijras, Kothis and theHistorical (Dis)continuity of Gender/Sexual Identities in EasternIndia 305
ANIRUDDHA DUTTA
Index 331

Über Autor(innen)

Donna R. Gabaccia is Professor of History at theUniversity of Minnesota. She is author of We Are What We Eat:Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans (1998),Italy's Many Diasporas (2000), and ForeignRelations: Global Perspectives on U.S. Immigration (2012); sheis also co-editor of Intimacy and Italian Migration: Gender andDomestic Lives in a Mobile World (with Loretta Baldassar,2010). Gabaccia is on the editorial board of Gender &History, Journal of American Ethnic History andJournal of Modern Italian Studies.
Mary Jo Maynes is Professor of History at the Universityof Minnesota. She is the author of Taking the Hard Road: LifeCourse and Class Identity in French and German Workers'Autobiographies of the Industrial Era (1995) and co-author ofTelling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the SocialSciences and History (with Jennifer Pierce and Barbara Laslett,2008) and Family: A World History (with Ann Waltner, 2012).She is on the editorial board of Gender & History, theJournal of Global History, and the Journal of the Historyof Childhood and Youth.