{"title":"Voices in Verses: Women's Poetry and Cultural Memory in Nineteenth Century India by Farhat Hasan, Cambridge University Press, 2024, ISBN: 978-1-0094-5306-6.","authors":"Maria H. Awan","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12826","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 1","pages":"434-436"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143530615","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":"A body of one's own: A trans history of Argentina by Patricio Simonetto, University of Texas Press, 2024, pp. vii-288, ISBN: 978-1-4773-2860-6.","authors":"Bodie A. Ashton","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12824","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 1","pages":"449-451"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143530626","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":"Engendering carcerality: An introduction","authors":"Eileen Boris, Sara M. Butler, Alex Mireles","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12822","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Reflecting the carceral turn in scholarship, this introduction to a special issue on engendering carcerality explores the difference that gender makes in the history of the carceral in its various forms over time and space. It considers the multiple meanings and spaces of imprisonment, surveillance, and confinement; incarceration of mothers; confinement of sex workers; imprisoning of political prisoners, and reforming of youths, taking account of intersectional identities, sexuality and resistance. It looks forward by looking back, engaging in a dialogue with abolitionist movements and current global struggles to encourage critical gendered histories of incarceration and resistance.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 3","pages":"807-823"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12822","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142434978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gender in Modern Welsh History: Perspectives on Masculinity and Femininity in Wales from 1750 to 2000 edited by Beth Jenkins, Paul O'Leary and Stephanie Ward, University of Wales Press, 2023, pp. vii–275, ISBN: 978-1-83772-078-1.","authors":"Clare V. Church","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12821","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 1","pages":"437-438"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143530705","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":"Helena Augusta: Mother of the Empire by Julia Hillner, Oxford University Press, 2023, p. 432, ISBN: 978-0-1908-7529-9.","authors":"Tessa Canella","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12820","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 1","pages":"429-430"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143530486","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":"‘Good fortune in the camps never lasted’: Gendered experience of carceral labour in the Soviet Union, 1930–1953","authors":"Zhanna Popova","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12818","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Gendered order in the Soviet camp system shaped women inmates’ experiences of labour and factored in their survival. This article zooms in on the published memoirs of four women political prisoners who survived the Gulag and explores how they experienced and narrated carceral labour. It focuses on three types of labour taking place in the carceral setting – forced labour, care work and clandestine crafts – and investigates the gendered dynamics that surrounded each of these interrelated types of labour. Historically-situated forms of women inmates’ constrained labour-related agency, as the memoirs show, were diverse and not always limited to outright resistance or compliance.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 3","pages":"890-903"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12818","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142435144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘No sword could ever pierce my heart more than when I must miss my child’: Power dynamics, agency and motherhood in the prison of ‘s-Hertogenbosch 1820–1880","authors":"Iris van der Zande","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12814","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using a microhistorical lens on the prison of ‘s-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands, this article focuses on practices and regulations concerning mothers and children and ideas about motherhood and practices of care to show how different powers intersected and were ‘at work’ within the prison. Analysing the decision-making, discourses and practices the authorities used to exert power over criminalised women and their children, this article argues that the prison policy was not designed to care for or protect mothers and children. On the contrary, it led to the deaths of many infants incarcerated with their mothers. Moreover, it paradoxically deprived incarcerated women of one of the pillars of nineteenth-century bourgeois femininity: motherhood. The mothers, however, actively resisted and negotiated the prison's power mechanisms to create opportunities to care for their children and influence their fate.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 3","pages":"824-839"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12814","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142434990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The ‘Catalan Hermaphrodite’ and the Inquisition: Early Modern Sex and Gender on Trial by François Soyer, Bloomsbury, 2023, p. 208, ISBN: 978-1-3503-7760-8.","authors":"Mónica Morado Vázquez","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12819","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 1","pages":"431-433"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143530596","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":"Incarceration as welfare: Transgressive female sexuality and the workhouse in West Germany, 1950–1969","authors":"Annalisa Martin","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12812","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Despite the rights and protections enshrined in its new constitution, the West German state confined beggars, alcoholics, convicted prostitutes and vagrants in workhouses on criminal sentences until 1969. Using administrative and inmate files, alongside local press coverage, this article turns to the largest remaining workhouse in West Germany, Brauweiler, between 1950 and 1969 and considers the internment of women arrested under the ‘correctional post-internment’ measure. It explores the gendered experiences of workhouse inmates, from the reasons for their internment to the reproduction of gendered boundaries during incarceration. Rather than providing an institutional history, it considers the micro-perspective of inmate experiences.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 3","pages":"920-937"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12812","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142435695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The other women's rights movement: ‘Streetwalkers’, habeas corpus and anticarceral activism in New York City, 1830–1860","authors":"April Haynes","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12810","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article reconstructs the earliest known movement for sex workers' rights in US history. It interprets collective assertions of due process as a strategy to overturn vagrancy laws, which permitted municipal officials to summarily commit ‘common prostitutes’ to the penitentiary for months. Mass arrests sparked an anticarceral movement of ‘streetwalkers’ who refused to be contained. Unlike the middle-class Woman's Rights Movement, which sought equal rights for their own sake, streetwalkers acted to build a world in which they could control their own labour, have sex without punishment and move freely through their city.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 3","pages":"840-858"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12810","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142435694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}