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{"title":"Book Review: Les Quinze Joies de Mariage by Anon","authors":"K. Offen","doi":"10.1177/03631990221116538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03631990221116538","url":null,"abstract":"This book offers a critical edition of Les Quinze Joies de Mariage (The Fifteen Joys of Marriage; c. early fifteenth century) with a translation into modern/contemporary French. It is prefaced by a sixty-page comprehensive introduction by the editor, Jean Rychner, and a thoughtful second introduction, subtitled “Pourquoi et comment lire les Quinze joies de mariage aujourd’hui?” [Why and How to Read the Fifteen Joys of Marriage Today?] by the translator, Jean-Claude Mühlethaler, who makes a convincing case for its timelessness. The edition also accommodates extensive endnotes, a glossary, and an index of proper names. The full text is prose, not poetry. Its depictions of conflicts in marital life are remarkably realistic; such complaints and concerns can easily be recognized in today’s advice columns. For those of us who struggle with “old” French, this modern translation is extremely valuable. The book is arranged so that the modern edition faces the requisite pages of the earlier critical edition, so for specialists (as well as intrigued non-specialist readers) it is easy to evaluate and compare both texts. The annotated critical edition itself is based on the careful study of four extant manuscripts (Rouen, Chantilly, Leningrad [once again St. Petersberg], and Phillipps), plus three printed editions (two from the late fifteenth century and the 1734 edition Le Duchat). The modernized text reads like a novel; in fact, it is a thoroughly entertaining read. As a historian who has worked for decades retrieving texts from the French debates on both sides of the so-called woman question, my primary interest is in the contents of the text, though it has to be said that Rychner has done a splendid job of summarizing scholarly efforts to date it, place it in locale (western France), and sleuth out the identity of the author (no consensus has been reached on this point), as well as to determine who might have read it (in manuscript). As it turns out, Christine de Pizan—who in 1405 was the first woman writer to defend the honor of French women against the misogynistic insults of two earlier writers—Jean de Meung and Matheolus —apparently had not read Les Quinze Joies de Mariage when she penned her Book of the City of Ladies in response to the other two writers. By the end of the fifteenth century, though, the manuscript of Les Quinze Joies was among the earliest published texts and was reprinted from time to time over the next few centuries. It has always fascinated and troubled me to find that misogynous and simply antifeminist tracts seemed to command more attention from publishers than those that either defended women from insults or advocated their emancipation. Les Quinze Joies de Mariage is not, strictly speaking, misogynist. I would call it misanthropic, insofar as its still-anonymous French author seems to be equally critical of the stupidity of men who willingly give up their liberty to dive into the “trap” (la nasse) of marriage, and of wives, us","PeriodicalId":45991,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42391426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Stories from Saddle Mountain: Autobiographies of a Kiowa Family by Henrietta Tongkeamha and Raymond Tongkeamnha","authors":"D. Ratliff","doi":"10.1177/03631990221116549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03631990221116549","url":null,"abstract":"affected the dynamics between working class and student youth activists. It could also have been further enriched through the inclusion of the voices of young workers and their life histories—something the author provides in fascinating detail in the following chapter on the Red Army. This chapter provides a lively history of the JRA by tracing the trajectories of Shigenobu Fusako and Wakamiya Masanori and highlighting the local and global connections of the group. Its conclusion points out that Shigenobu was complicit in reinforcing the gender hierarchy of a masculine polis through her propaganda messages. While the author illustrates this complicity in convincing detail, one can question if it completely “eclipsed” Shigenobu’s ideological visions. The gender norms of mainstream society powerfully affected members of the JRA, as did the pervasive consumer culture of early 1970s Japan. However, should we conclude that these influences and the JRA members’ active embrace and enactment of these norms defined them? The chapter’s framing suggests that we should; its rich and lively contents suggest that we should not. The chapter raises questions for further research concerning the intersections between gender norms and activism in Shigenobu and other women activists, as well as their differently gendered portrayals in the mainstream media. While the first two chapters focus on nonstate actors on the Far Left, the last two examine the Far Right. In the early 1950s, “reverse course” became a phrase encapsulating the reactionary turn in Japanese society and politics under the Cold War, with transwar figures escaping the postwar purge and rehabilitating themselves into positions of power. While the phrase was no longer widely used by the late 1960s and early 1970s, the case studies of Kodama Yoshio and Sasakawa Ryoichi illustrate how the trend it referred to continued well into this period. One “Old Left” activist once quipped to the effect that postwar Japan has been on the “reverse course” trajectory for so long, by now it should be in the Stone Ages. However, the last two chapters of this book remind us that generational, class, and gender intersected in ways that preclude a simple portrayal of a linear movement backward in time. Here, one can question the author’s framing of his subjects of analyzes as “nonstate actors” of the Far Left and Right. As the author shows in vivid detail, Far Right activists of the transwar generation enjoyed state establishment connections and resources to a degree that casts doubt on their position as “nonstate actors.” The boundaries between state and nonstate were significantly blurred on the Far Right. On the Far Left, the boundaries were clear and to a degree that was likely higher than most when viewed in global context. While the capacity of social movements to unite and enable political change may have been “a high standard” that was generally not attained in the global 1960s, there were also significant differen","PeriodicalId":45991,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45928733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic by Jennifer L. Morgan","authors":"Daniel Livesay","doi":"10.1177/03631990221116497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03631990221116497","url":null,"abstract":"ilies despite the ongoing dehumanizing and persecutory context of the post-emancipation era. Given the book’s intended focus on the “Long Nineteenth Century,” Hilde could have devoted more attention to fatherhood in the postbellum period rather than in just her final two chapters. Nevertheless, Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities over the Long Nineteenth Century is a well-researched and vital contribution to the field which convincingly demonstrates the “quietly heroic efforts of African American men as fathers” (281).","PeriodicalId":45991,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47111081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: A Cultural History of Marriage in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age by Joanne M. Ferraro","authors":"Claire L. Carlin","doi":"10.1177/03631990221116540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03631990221116540","url":null,"abstract":"nection between Native history and geography. It also provides an important narrative of transformation both in land and in people, one told in part by a voice “clear with strength” and the other that brings this history into the present. Stories from Saddle Mountain: Autobiographies of a Kiowa Family is a thoughtful collection of Indigenous family histories with an important methodological intervention.","PeriodicalId":45991,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47640786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Demographic Transition and the Industrial Revolution in England: Inverse Rural and Urban Processes","authors":"D. Friedlander, Barbara S. Okun","doi":"10.1177/03631990221114065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03631990221114065","url":null,"abstract":"We present a model of 19th Century population change in England & Wales. The model highlights contrasting demographic and economic processes in rural and urban sectors as core explanations for rural to urban migration, stemming from labor surpluses in the former and labor shortages in the latter. This massive migration transformed the geographic distribution of the population, in tandem with the economic transformation caused by the Industrial Revolution. We argue that demographic literature on historical population processes in England & Wales in the 19th Century has paid insufficient attention to the role of internal migration.","PeriodicalId":45991,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44710682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Catholic Social Networks in Early Modern England: Kinship, Gender, and Coexistence by Lisa McClain","authors":"Lisa Mcclain","doi":"10.1177/03631990221086518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03631990221086518","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45991,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41897115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Aunting as Family Shadow-Work","authors":"Ashley Barnwell","doi":"10.1177/03631990221079784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03631990221079784","url":null,"abstract":"Women have long been known as family kin-keepers, sources of knowledge about family histories. Yet little has been written on the role of aunts within families, and more specifically on aunts’ domain over sensitive or secret family information. This paper develops the concept of family shadow-work to analyse labours that are unseen yet essential to family life. To do this it explores aunting practices around family secrets using ‘facet methodology’ applied to qualitative research. This analysis highlights aunts’ efforts to manage and transmit information while navigating the politics of family secrecy. While such acts of diagonal transmission may be less recognised as reproductive of family, they are crucial in creating a continuity of family lore, structure, and identity.","PeriodicalId":45991,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47615962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corrigendum to Social Cohesion and Resilience in First Australian Family and Kinship Networks","authors":"K. O'brien","doi":"10.1177/03631990221087792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03631990221087792","url":null,"abstract":"The author wishes to acknowledge Mykaela Saunders, the author’s student-advisee at the University of Sydney. The author served as dissertation advisor to Ms. Saunders for her 2015 thesis titled “Yarning with Minjungbal women: testimonial narratives of transgenerational trauma and healing explored through relationships with country and culture, community and family.” The author extensively referenced Ms. Saunders’ thesis in writing this article.","PeriodicalId":45991,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45400257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Women's National Abortion Action Coalition & the Abortion Tribunals, 1971–1972","authors":"Katherine Parkin","doi":"10.1177/03631990221107092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03631990221107092","url":null,"abstract":"The Women's National Abortion Action Coalition organized for abortion rights, an end to forced sterilization, and accessible birth control. From its formation in July 1971 to its demise with the January 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, it was an inclusive, far-reaching network that spearheaded the call for reproductive justice. Assembling a coalition, including high school and college students and those who called themselves Third World women (Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American women), the group held marches, protests, and in the fall of 1972 abortion tribunals across the country, holding men in power accountable for the oppression of women.","PeriodicalId":45991,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45200129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation by Christopher Gerteis","authors":"K. Hasegawa","doi":"10.1177/03631990221099500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03631990221099500","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45991,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47655431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}