Gender and HistoryPub Date : 2026-10-05Epub Date: 2025-08-28DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.70006
Ezelle Sanford III, Judy Jarvis, Eric Anglero
{"title":"Queering Institutional Milestones in Elite Higher Education: Queer Perspectives on Princeton University and Coeducation (1960–1980)","authors":"Ezelle Sanford III, Judy Jarvis, Eric Anglero","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A new archive of oral history interviews from LGBTQIA-identified alumni, faculty and staff reveals the complex ways that queer and transgender students understood, experienced and remembered the long transition from single-sex to coeducation at Princeton University. Engaging with this oral history collection, as well as literatures on single-sex higher education, and queer and trans activism, this institutional case study ‘troubles’ Princeton's history of coeducation and recounts the concurrent history of queer activism at the university. Such a perspective reveals that (1) some transgender students took advantage of the institution's single-sex education prior to the inclusion of cisgender women, although they could not outwardly express their true gender as students; (2) Princeton's admission of cisgender women opened, at least in part, spaces for queer students to form community, become a visible constituency, and later demand recognition and protection and (3) Princeton's male-dominant ‘masculine tradition’ persisted, even in newly formed queer spaces<sup>1</sup>.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 3","pages":"921-933"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.70006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100715","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}
Gender and HistoryPub Date : 2026-10-05Epub Date: 2026-01-06DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.70007
Carolin Kosuch
{"title":"Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century Cremation in Europe and the USA","authors":"Carolin Kosuch","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70007","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way. While appropriating science and technology for their cause, they turned the Christian religion – notably Catholicism – and certain social actors into their ‘Others’. To consolidate their self-image, they devalued the latter as symbols of tradition, obstacles to progress and representatives of an outdated past. Women and men from non-secularist backgrounds also took an interest in cremation and likewise referred to these identifiers, as this essay uncovers. Conceptually, I make use of the sociological theory model of boundary work (T. Paulitz) to discuss gendered and worldview patterns as well as different masculinities in nineteenth-century cremation.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 3","pages":"765-776"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.70007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149099580","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}
Gender and HistoryPub Date : 2026-10-05Epub Date: 2026-03-16DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.70032
Meghmala Bhattacharya
{"title":"‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity","authors":"Meghmala Bhattacharya","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite threats of expulsion from Principal Gertrude Marian Wright. These acts of refusal exemplify what Agamben (1998) terms ‘radical passivity’, a quiet yet potent resistance that unsettled colonial authority and disrupted established gendered and infantilising narratives of student activism. The Bethune protests are situated within the broader context of colonial education in Bengal, which was simultaneously a tool of imperial control and a site of political dissent. Educational institutions, especially women's colleges, became spaces of revolutionary activity, challenging the colonial government's attempts to depoliticise education. Drawing on archival records, nationalist historiography, and multilingual sources, this article critiques the masculinist framing of the protests and re-centres the experiences of women, who were often reduced to symbolic figures in historical narratives. By adopting feminist historiographical approaches, the article reimagines archival practices to foreground women's voices, revealing the complexities of resistance in colonial Bengal and highlighting the generative intersection of education, gender and political activism.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 3","pages":"882-894"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.70032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100202","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}
Gender and HistoryPub Date : 2026-10-05Epub Date: 2026-07-27DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.70037
Alecia Simmonds
{"title":"Accommodating Women: Geographies of Citizenship in the Twentieth-Century Campaign for Women's Jury Rights","authors":"Alecia Simmonds","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70037","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Australian women were among the first in the world to receive electoral suffrage, yet it took until 1997 before they had full equality of jury suffrage. This article examines the debate around female jurors by focusing less on discourses of citizenship than on the subterranean spatial arrangements upon which equality depended. From concerns about jurors being locked up overnight, or “ladies” being forced into a jury box with “undesirables,” to the refusal of governments to build women's amenities, the jury debate raised questions around gendered geographies of citizenship. How were women to find a place in courtrooms built for men?</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 3","pages":"895-906"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.70037","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100416","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}
Gender and HistoryPub Date : 2026-10-05Epub Date: 2026-01-20DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.70019
Lorinda Cramer
{"title":"Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950","authors":"Lorinda Cramer","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70019","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life. This article explores how the products and handling of wool waste are connected to gender: the work, including that defined as noxious for its dust and stench that made some processes apparently more suitable for men or women, and the use, with some goods aligned to purity and others to pollution.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 3","pages":"859-869"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.70019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100569","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}
Gender and HistoryPub Date : 2026-10-05Epub Date: 2026-01-14DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.70024
Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols
{"title":"Flap Anatomies and Victorian Veils: Penetrating the Female Reproductive Interior","authors":"Margaret Carlyle, Marcia D. Nichols","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the reappearance in the early nineteenth century of anatomical flapbooks in the context of obstetrical education in Britain, America and France. It asks why liftable paper flaps were reintroduced at this time after their disappearance from medical atlases in the eighteenth century. In answering this question, we contend that the resurgence of the ‘anatomical flap’ was a double-edged tool for male obstetricians. While it signalled the stabilization of men's authority in childbirth, it also fuelled lingering concerns around their tactile engagement with the female reproductive body. The ‘obstetrical flap’ thus functioned as a nineteenth-century teaching prop and an obscene tool.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 3","pages":"777-798"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.70024","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100092","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}
Gender and HistoryPub Date : 2026-10-05Epub Date: 2025-08-18DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.70010
Panarat Anamwathana
{"title":"Rights in Transition: Women's Rights Between Tradition and Western Influence in Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Siam","authors":"Panarat Anamwathana","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study explores the evolution of women's rights in Siam during the nineteenth and early-twentieth century. The article utilises two main types of primary sources, official documents and women's magazines, to uncover how Siamese elites selectively adapted western concepts of rights to maintain traditional power structures. It is argued that the reaffirmation and transformation of women's rights in the legal code was a hybridisation of traditional Siamese customs and Enlightenment ideas. Additionally, an analysis of women's magazines demonstrates how elite men utilised these publications to manufacture a concept of women's rights that would suit their interests.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 3","pages":"810-820"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100250","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}
Gender and HistoryPub Date : 2026-10-05Epub Date: 2026-06-29DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.70054
Katharina Friege
{"title":"The Not-So-Neue Frau: Weimar Berlin's Modern Women and Generational Identity After 1945","authors":"Katharina Friege","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70054","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article studies the post-1945 literary careers of Gabriele Tergit and Ilse Langner, two ageing German writers. Both had enjoyed promising careers as young women in Weimar Berlin, but Nazism and war disrupted their professional trajectories in varying ways. After 1945, they tried and failed to recapture their Weimar-era success, eventually realising they were no longer ‘modern’. Only then did they retrospectively identify with a wider generation of Weimar women; previously, their sense of individuality had dominated. This article argues for investigating generations beyond their original formative periods and adds a new chapter to the history of Weimar's ‘Neue Frau’.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 3","pages":"907-920"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.70054","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149100559","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}
Gender and HistoryPub Date : 2026-10-05Epub Date: 2026-05-04DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.70036
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
{"title":"The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona","authors":"Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70036","url":null,"abstract":"<p>An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth-century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth-century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of rewriting the nature of colonialism and of refashioning the Cuban origins of a prominent Catalan family. The private, domestic biography becomes a principal technology for rhetorically domesticating the American story of trafficking and enslavement for its Spanish readers.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 3","pages":"799-809"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.70036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149099344","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}
Gender and HistoryPub Date : 2026-10-05Epub Date: 2026-07-03DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.70051
Carissa Chew
{"title":"Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa","authors":"Carissa Chew","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70051","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British-ruled Zanzibar, Uganda, Kenya and Tanganyika. In doing so, it shows how those who pursued relationships across racial lines challenged South Asian patriarchal structures and anti-Black prejudice. The article examines honour-based gender norms and colourist hierarchies that shaped the performance of South Asian manhood and womanhood overseas, interrogating how women's interracial desires were policed in punitive ways—and how this violence has been preserved in collective memory.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 3","pages":"833-845"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.70051","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149099430","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}