Gender and HistoryPub Date : 2026-03-26Epub Date: 2024-06-24DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12800
Zira Box
{"title":"Virility, fascism and regeneration in post-Civil War Spain: On interpretations of literary Romanticism under the Franco regime","authors":"Zira Box","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12800","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes. This article focuses on a case study that allows us to better understand this gendered conception of the nation in terms of virility: the discourse developed around the Spanish Romantic writers of the 1830s, a literary movement difficult to incorporate within conceptions of the virile nation. This gained prominence particularly because several centenaries associated with these writers occurred during the war and post-war period.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 1","pages":"259-272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12800","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147615118","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 : 2026-03-26Epub Date: 2024-05-02DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12785
Eve Worth, Naomi Muggleton, Aaron Reeves
{"title":"Gendered processes of recruitment to elite higher educational institutions in mid-twentieth century Britain","authors":"Eve Worth, Naomi Muggleton, Aaron Reeves","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12785","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12785","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article uses rare and detailed data on matriculants to the University of Oxford during the middle decades of the twentieth century as a prism through which to consider gendered processes of recruitment to elite institutions. The article makes four key claims. First, the broader shifts in middle-class women's labour market participation in the mid-century are reflected in patterns of maternal occupation among matriculants, shifting from being predominantly housewives to professionals across the period. Related to this, the fathers of matriculants had similar professions whether their child was male or female, but mothers’ professions varied much more between male and female students. There was much more variation between mothers and fathers of students who attended what we term ‘elite’ schools. Finally, across the mid-twentieth century, the number of male students from elite schools declined significantly, whereas the number of women students who had attended an ‘elite’ school was much steadier. Given the centrality of Oxford for processes of elite recruitment, these trends in their matriculants will have far wider implications for who gets access to elite positions in the decades after these shifts were occurring, revealing in some ways the continuity of class privilege and the increasingly salient role of mother's occupation in processes of elite reproduction.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 1","pages":"307-326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12785","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141022590","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 : 2026-03-26Epub Date: 2024-04-07DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12783
Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño
{"title":"Mujeres Públicas and women in public: Scrutinising the history of prostitution in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Mexico","authors":"Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12783","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12783","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico. These sources reveal that the exaggeration of prostitution's presence is explained by the fact that prostitution was often associated with another legal category – <i>amancebamiento</i> (cohabitation), and that female cohabiters were recreated in the minds of court officials and other observers when their ‘scanadalous’ behaviour rendered them prostitutes.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 1","pages":"86-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12783","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140733463","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 : 2026-03-26Epub Date: 2024-06-24DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12800
Zira Box
{"title":"Virility, fascism and regeneration in post-Civil War Spain: On interpretations of literary Romanticism under the Franco regime","authors":"Zira Box","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12800","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes. This article focuses on a case study that allows us to better understand this gendered conception of the nation in terms of virility: the discourse developed around the Spanish Romantic writers of the 1830s, a literary movement difficult to incorporate within conceptions of the virile nation. This gained prominence particularly because several centenaries associated with these writers occurred during the war and post-war period.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 1","pages":"259-272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12800","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147615117","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 : 2026-03-26Epub Date: 2024-07-03DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12804
K. Mitchell Snow
{"title":"Power to the posers: Delsartean women, the law of correspondence and the classical male body","authors":"K. Mitchell Snow","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12804","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12804","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the late nineteenth century, female adherents of the Delsartean physical culture movement in the USA would perform statue poses as part of their training and public appearances, employing both male and female statues in their work. This article positions this practice within seventeenth- and eighteenth-century historical trajectories of the visual, rhetorical and performing arts and the allegorical meanings that prior generations had mapped onto the bodies of these works of art. This article argues that the Delsartean ‘law of correspondence’ equating internal states with external expression allowed their statue posing to serve as a tacit statement of gender equality.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 1","pages":"102-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141680774","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 : 2026-03-26Epub Date: 2024-07-05DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12805
Imogen Knox
{"title":"Faithful men and false women: Love-suicide in early modern English popular print","authors":"Imogen Knox","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12805","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12805","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion. Within this literature, however, young women often bore the blame for male suicide, influenced by early modern ideas about the innate characteristics of men and women. This examination interrogates a context in which suicide, rather than being condemned, was consistently depicted sympathetically. It also sheds crucial light on the representation and performance of masculinity and femininity in courtship and matters of love.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 1","pages":"53-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12805","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141675463","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 : 2026-03-26Epub Date: 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12774
Joseph Lawson
{"title":"Strangers on the ladder of the party-state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s","authors":"Joseph Lawson","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12774","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12774","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As the ruling party of a party-state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well-trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service. In the early 1950s when most teachers were men, the party's special relationship with teaching was consistent with a generally conservative approach to gender. Large numbers of women entered teaching from the late 1940s. This was a global trend but was accelerated in Taiwan by the unique form of coloniality on the island in the post war era. The government required teachers to be Mandarin-speakers and favoured Mainlanders. Although Taiwanese women were still disadvantaged, Mainland women had some advantage over Taiwanese men. The rapid rise of women in teaching sparked a degree of resistance, which was in turn countered by rhetoric that feminised teaching. Despite such resistance, the party-state's pathways from teaching into politics endured and facilitated the entry of a significant number of women into local electoral politics.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 1","pages":"273-288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12774","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139683425","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 : 2026-03-26Epub Date: 2025-01-30DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12831
Ekaterina Oleshkevich
{"title":"Hired Childcare and Changing Maternal Perceptions Among the Urban Poor: Baby Farming in the Western Lands of Late Imperial Russia","authors":"Ekaterina Oleshkevich","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12831","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores baby farming in the western regions of late imperial Russia, framing it as a childcare practice of the lower-classes – a form of crèche for working mothers. The article delves into the public discourse surrounding baby farming among the educated strata and contrasts it with how this practice was viewed by the lower-classes. I argue that baby farming was a form of wage labour – one of the few options available for middle-aged urban women – and that the use of baby farmers’ services by mothers demonstrates the changing maternal perceptions among the lower-classes.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 1","pages":"158-171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12831","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147615336","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 : 2026-03-26Epub Date: 2024-06-17DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12794
Muriel Moser
{"title":"Scandalisation, gender and space in ancient Rome: The case of Cicero and Clodia","authors":"Muriel Moser","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12794","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12794","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyses the public attack on Clodia Metelli, a Roman aristocratic woman, by the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in a trial in 56 BCE. Drawing on modern scandal theory, this article analyses how Cicero uses scandal dynamics to turn Clodia, the witness in the case, into the culprit. The article discusses, first, the dynamics of his scandalisation of Clodia and the importance of Roman gender norms and their spatial expressions in his attack and, second, Cicero's role as scandaliser and norm-setter.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 1","pages":"5-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12794","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147585135","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 : 2026-03-26Epub Date: 2024-10-09DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12823
Hilary Falb Kalisman
{"title":"Apostles of knowledge: Feminine modernities and the travelling schoolmistresses of interwar Iraq","authors":"Hilary Falb Kalisman","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12823","url":null,"abstract":"<p>During the interwar era, nearly all of Iraq's secondary schoolmistresses journeyed to Iraq from other corners of the Arab world. This article examines their extraordinary lives, impact on their students and the feminine modernity that these women represented. Policymakers, officials and intellectuals sought to spread women's education, linking it to a global vision of modern domesticity. In contrast, the schoolmistresses of interwar Iraq, the first women in the region to receive higher education, tied their journeys to their gender, underscoring that travel and a ‘modern’ education created a different type of ‘new woman’ who was to be, and to remain, exceptional.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 1","pages":"224-239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147614869","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}