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Gender History Across Epistemologies.
Gender History Across Epistemologies offers broad range of innovative approaches to gender history. The essays reveal how historians of gender are crossing boundaries - disciplinary, methodological, and national - to explore new opportunities for viewing gender as a category of historical analysis....
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Wiley,
2013.
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| Colección: | Gender and History Special Issues.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Gender History Across Epistemologies; CONTENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction: Gender History Across Epistemologies; 1 Master Narratives and the Wall Painting of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii; The house and its owners; Slavery and freedom; The House of the Vettii in scholarship; Houses, painting, myth and gender; Case study: ancient slavery, sexuality and the House of the Vettii; The master gaze; Masochism; Conclusions and implications; Notes.
- 2 'More Beautiful than Words & Pencil Can Express': Barbara Bodichon's Artistic Career at the Interface of her Epistolary and Visual Self ProjectionsBodichon's personal papers: archival contingencies; Bodichon's letters and paintings: a hybrid performative self-constitution; Bodichon's artistic identity at the intersection of her epistolary and visual self-projections; Bodichon's unresolved artistic self and the production of historical knowledge; Notes; 3 Public Motherhood in West Africa as Theory and Practice; Notes.
- 4 Profiling the Female Emigrant: A Method of Linguistic Inquiry for Examining Correspondence CollectionsIntroduction; What is a corpus?; Background remarks; The LOUGH corpus; The starting point
- simple frequency data; Words and frequencies; Words in context: n-grams and clusters; From quantitative to qualitative: concordance lines; Discussion and conclusions; Notes; 5 Beyond Constructivism?: Gender, Medicine and the Early History of Sperm Analysis, Germany 1870-1900; Social constructivism, gender history and the one-sex/two-sex narrative.
- 'Cherchez l'homme'
- male sterility and the making of sperm testing, 1860-1890Collecting sperm, compromising morals and compiling statistics (loop 1); Gynaecologists as andrologists (loop 2); Patients (loop 3); Conclusion; Notes; 6 'I Just Express My Views & Leave Them to Work': Olive Schreiner as a Feminist Protagonist in a Masculine Political Landscape with Figures; Introduction; Olive Schreiner's 'characteristic shrewdness'
- Walker's case for influence; 'Always give your enemies what they don't want!'
- marks upon the text.
- Doing things with letters: the performative character of Schreiner's epistolary activities and influenceA feminist protagonist in a masculine political landscape: on influence and separate spheres; Notes; 7 Gender without Groups: Confession, Resistance and Selfhood in the Colonial Archive; Between groups and individuals
- perils of distraction in southern Africa; Adaima's story
- the complete document; Adaima's story
- text, context and ephemeral knowledge; Conclusions; Notes; 8 The Power of Renewable Resources: Orlando's Tactical Engagement with the Law of Intestacy; Notes.