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Book SynopsisGender 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.
Table of ContentsNotes 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 the Vettii, Pompeii 20
BETH SEVERY-HOVEN
2 ‘More Beautiful than Words & Pencil Can Express’: Barbara Bodichon’s Artistic Career at the Interface of her Epistolary and Visual Self Projections 61
MERITXELL SIMON-MARTIN
3 Public Motherhood in West Africa as Theory and Practice 80
LORELLE SEMLEY
4 Profiling the Female Emigrant: A Method of Linguistic Inquiry for Examining Correspondence Collections 97
EMMA MORETON
5 Beyond Constructivism?: Gender, Medicine and the Early History of Sperm Analysis, Germany 1870–1900 127
CHRISTINA BENNINGHAUS
6 ‘I Just Express My Views & Leave Them to Work’: Olive Schreiner as a Feminist Protagonist in a Masculine Political Landscape with Figures 157
LIZ STANLEY AND HELEN DAMPIER
7 Gender without Groups: Confession, Resistance and Selfhood in the Colonial Archive 181
CHRISTOPHER J. LEE
8 The Power of Renewable Resources: Orlando’s Tactical Engagement with the Law of Intestacy 198
JAMIE L. MCDANIEL
9 The Politics of Gender Concepts in Genetics and Hormone Research 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): A Mestiza Epistemology of Performance 246
MEREDITH HELLER
12 Changing Paradigms in Migration Studies: From Men to Women to Gender 262
NANCY L. GREEN
13 Reconsidering Categories of Analysis: Possibilities for Feminist Studies of Conflict 279
SHIRIN SAEIDI
14 An Epistemology of Collusion: Hijras, Kothis and the Historical (Dis)continuity of Gender/Sexual Identities in Eastern India 305
ANIRUDDHA DUTTA
Index 331
