{"title":"The Girl Watcher: Celebrating a Man's Right to Look in the Post-war USA","authors":"Molly Brookfield","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12698","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12698","url":null,"abstract":"<p>From the 1950s to 1970s, the practice of ‘girl-watching’ swept the USA. First appearing in <i>The Girl Watcher's Guide</i> in 1954, the girl watcher was understood to be a middle-class, white, heterosexual man whose favourite ‘pastime’ was looking at women in public. While many Americans had denounced white men's ogling or leering as an insult in the early 1900s, mid-century representations of girl-watching depicted white men's furtive looking instead as a harmless pursuit. The girl-watching fad thus marked a shift in the way Americans thought about men's public glances: it granted white, middle-class men the right to look at women in public and normalised a form of sexualised looking that today is often classified as sexual harassment.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 1","pages":"315-332"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130720220","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":"Making Modern Mughals: Gendered Labour, Colonial Governance and the Household in Colonial India","authors":"Rochisha Narayan","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12700","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12700","url":null,"abstract":"<p>British officials in India disparaged the Mughal <i>zanana</i> to construct a linear argument on progress from a decadent Mughal past to the modern colonial period. This discourse was accompanied by the systematic marginalisation of Mughals under British rule, especially after the Rebellion of 1857. This article complicates tropes about the Mughal <i>zanana</i> and offers a historical perspective on late Mughal households. Using the colonial archive on Mughal genealogies, pensions and petitions, and educational records and scholarships, it illuminates how Mughal women confounded the teleology in colonial narratives. It demonstrates how Mughal women, of varying status and rank, fostered a tenuous modernity by weaving Mughal pasts into their present. Weighed against colonial attempts to gradually bring about the erasure of Mughal identity, this article suggests that these women's efforts to raise new generations of Mughals can be read as quotidian political acts.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 1","pages":"183-199"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130030126","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 Girl as Mistress in Renaissance Italy: Gender and Power in Leonardo da Vinci's Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani","authors":"Timothy McCall","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12696","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12696","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article centres on Cecilia Gallerani, the so-called <i>Lady with an Ermine</i> (which is referred to as <i>The Girl with an Ermine</i>), and re-examines the very young age at which Leonardo da Vinci painted this mistress of Ludovico Sforza, lord of Milan. It examines Gallerani's navigation of regional networks of power well beyond her time at court. Exploring inter-related constructions of femininity and masculinity, moreover, the article critically examines visual representation and relations between sex, power and dominance. Crucially, ‘The Girl as Mistress in Renaissance Italy’ both reveals and interrogates the sexual violence and coercion on plain display (though long ignored by scholars) in this most familiar and canonical of Italian Renaissance paintings.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 1","pages":"50-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122284723","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":"‘Tearing Off the Bonds’: Suffrage Visual Culture in Australia, New Zealand and the USA, 1890–1920","authors":"Ana Stevenson","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12694","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12694","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article will examine how transpacific suffrage visual culture imagined and reimagined an artistic tradition centred around the figure of the bound woman. White suffragists and anti-suffragists in Australia, New Zealand and the United States used the iconography of bonds, chains and whips to mediate the possibility of women’s enfranchisement. Haunted by the legacies of settler colonialism, suffrage cartoons directly and obliquely evoked the spectre of chattel slavery, convict transportation and incarceration alongside the elusive ideals of humanitarian reform. While anti-suffrage cartoons lamented the prospect of women’s enfranchisement, pro-suffrage cartoons appropriated this iconography primarily for the benefit of white women.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 1","pages":"234-266"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12694","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124645195","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":"Manhood, Military Forts and Ethnological Thought: John Gregory Bourke and the Rise of Border Ethnology, 1870s–90s","authors":"Kris Klein Hernández","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12697","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12697","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores how some army forts in 1870s, 1880s and 1890s Texas, New Mexico and Arizona emerged as sites for the production of ethnological knowledge about Mexican and native (Apache, Zuni) peoples. It focuses primarily on US Army Captain John Gregory Bourke's diary entries and publications about his time in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona military garrisons from the late 1860s to the 1890s. Expanding upon cultural studies scholar José Limón's discussions of Bourke's ambivalent relationship to the subjects of his ethnographic study, this article investigates how Bourke's excursions into the built-environment in and beyond border military forts shaped his understanding of the logics of empire and how his writing, in turn, influenced popular conceptions of the borderlands. Turning to historian Gail Bederman's exploration of turn-of-the-century conceptions of manhood, this article examines how Bourke's ethnographic forays from the homosocial and white-dominated enclosure of the military fort into the multi-racial and gendered borderlands defined and challenged ideas about manhood and masculinity on the ‘frontier’. This article proposes that the study of army fort personnel helps tease out how militarised individuals made sense of the built-environment through their racial and gendered observations of border populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 1","pages":"200-217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133871562","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":"Women's International Thought: Towards A New Canon Edited by Patricia Owens, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberly Hutchings and Sarah C. Dunstan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 776, ISBN: 9781108999762.","authors":"Gaynor Johnson","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12695","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"35 2","pages":"767-768"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50130748","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":"Women in Wartime: Theatrical Representations in the Long Eighteenth Century By Paula R. Backscheider, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022, pp. 456 ISBN-10 1421441675.","authors":"Meghan Kobza","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12693","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"35 2","pages":"759-760"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50155566","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":"Reading smart: Queering and contextualising a cycling diary","authors":"Christine Bachman-Sanders","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12687","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12687","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Contradicting heteropatriarchal romance narratives in the historical archive, Bachman-Sanders reads the diary of a woman cyclist from Leeds, UK written between 1893 and 1896 against the grain to reveal an identity for the diarist that is relationally and spatially constructed. She utilises feminist inter-subjective reading practices and a queer interpretive framework to investigate the personal, genealogical, geographical and historical context surrounding this diary and to interrogate her own attachment to the research subject. Bachman-Sanders produces a collection of images and maps that explore the intimate connections and non-linearity of bicycle tourism and feminist historical research, pushing the limits of the ‘queer object’.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 2","pages":"454-473"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12687","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126121886","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":"Christian political hypermasculinity: Brazilian fascism in the 1930s","authors":"Daniela Moraes Traldi","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12691","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12691","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article considers the well-crafted but often overlooked gender politics of the <i>Integralistas</i>, Brazil's largest fascist movement of the 1930s. Led by writer Plínio Salgado, the <i>Integralistas</i>, who allegedly reached one million members by 1935, became Brazil's first-ever mass political organisation. They envisioned what they called a Christian holistic state (<i>Estado Integral</i>), one in which corporatism, nationalism and faith would sustain the country's very existence in opposition to communism, materialism and liberalism. Largely unexplored iconographic material reveal that gender appeared at the very heart of their political ambitions: a sexualised type of hypermasculinity pointed to an ideal Brazil rooted in Christian-based notions of masculinity and femininity, having men as nation-builders and women as family-nurturers, and a racialised version of expected membership, with Blacks and the indigenous population welcomed only as infantilised male and female beings who depended upon much tutoring from self-proclaimed grown-up white Brazilian men. As this article explores, the politics of the <i>Integralistas</i> were not alone in 1930s Brazil.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 2","pages":"580-601"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126315546","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":"Proving Pregnancy: Gender, Law, and Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth Century America By Felicity M. Turner, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022, pp. 228, ISBN: 9781469669700.","authors":"Elizabeth M. Barnes","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12692","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"35 2","pages":"761-762"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50139138","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}