Gender and HistoryPub Date : 2026-07-15Epub Date: 2025-02-26DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12835
Shira Pinhas
{"title":"The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine","authors":"Shira Pinhas","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12835","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign to introduce kerosene for cooking and laundry. Notions about gender roles attached to different domestic habits were tied to class and settler-colonial hierarchies, resulting in a differential and unequal adoption of kerosene and the hazards its use entailed amongst Arab and Jewish women.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 2","pages":"611-625"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12835","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148534382","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 : 2026-07-15Epub Date: 2025-04-06DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12846
Indrani Chatterjee
{"title":"Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present","authors":"Indrani Chatterjee","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12846","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using both English and Urdu-language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro-Asian women slaves in the household-state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master-poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro-Asian slaves to the treatment of other slave-mothers. It then moves to analyse British official necropolitics towards the elderly African-Asian women, who were either manumitted by death or by deed and lived in mid-century Lucknow. British disregard for Islamic Laws of <i>wala</i> and obligations of senior <i>mawla</i> (patrons) towards these elders continued to shape the historiography of slavery until the present.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 2","pages":"541-553"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12846","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148532836","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 : 2026-07-15Epub Date: 2025-03-07DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12841
Margaret Mishra
{"title":"‘The King against Papamma’ and Mankumari: Indentured Women, Mercy and the Death Penalty in Fiji 1897–1905","authors":"Margaret Mishra","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12841","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article examines the testimonies of two indentured Indian women, Mankumari and Papamma, who were sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of Fiji for murdering their husbands in 1897 and 1905, respectively. While their paramours, Tulisiram and Krishnamma, were judicially executed, Mankumari and Papamma were shown mercy by the governors. Nestled within the backdrop of British colonialism and indenture, this article will fill a gap in the small body of scholarship on capital punishment in Fiji. It will focus on the intricate relationship between gender, ethnicity and law, in particular the authorities’ reluctance to judicially execute indentured women.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 2","pages":"596-610"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148533162","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 : 2026-07-15Epub Date: 2025-03-12DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12842
Ella Rossman
{"title":"‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self","authors":"Ella Rossman","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12842","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The article examines post-Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses on the feminine ideal developed in the expertise through specialised concepts and role models suggested for Soviet girls and young women. I contend that the ideology of girlhood, created in the expert texts, appeared to be internally inconsistent. It was highly affected by the Cold War confrontational narrative and exclusionary for many Soviet females, forming a set of rigid norms for girls and young women. However, the texts also present emancipatory ideas for female political participation and economic independence. Most importantly, they promote a powerful vision of female excellence and even a socially accepted version of female defiance, which was unusual for the girlhood cultures of that time.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 2","pages":"647-657"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12842","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148533250","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 : 2026-07-15Epub Date: 2025-06-23DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12866
Ivana Arsić
{"title":"In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon","authors":"Ivana Arsić","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12866","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and dietary laws while confronting religious violence and preserving contested identities from a comparative perspective. Through an examination of religious practice preservation, coping mechanisms and negotiation tactics, this study unveils the resilience inherent in these communities. Additionally, this study also examines the dual process of negotiation within familial and communal contexts, as well as when confronting the Inquisition. Drawing from various historical sources, including both manuscripts and early modern editions – most notably royal decrees, municipal records, regional statutes and decisions of the <i>Cortes</i>, as well as inquisition trials – the research offers insights into the role of gender and female authority in shaping religious identities within premodern Mediterranean society.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 2","pages":"453-463"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12866","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148522718","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 : 2026-07-15Epub Date: 2025-02-19DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12836
Katariina Parhi
{"title":"Working for Moral Improvement Interpretations of Institutionalised Vagrant Women in Finland During and After the Second World War","authors":"Katariina Parhi","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12836","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12836","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Through a focus on women's vagrancy in the metropolitan area of Finland during and after the Second World War (1942–1947), this article analyses the different kinds of information which were produced about vagrant women by correctional labour facilities. This rich source material is navigated in line with the following fundamental question: Who is speaking? Such analysis shows that work could help women to escape their vagrant status, given the demand for the workforce. The work performance was evaluated not only in the correctional labour facilities, but also in the world outside.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 2","pages":"626-636"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148533932","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 : 2026-07-15Epub Date: 2025-05-07DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12852
Sofia Zepeda
{"title":"‘I Canot Releve You at Presant’: Sailors, the State and a Breadwinner Wage in Britain and Ireland, 1793–1815","authors":"Sofia Zepeda","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12852","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article argues that British and Irish sailors and the state communicated in a shared language of patriarchy, furthering the state's goal of a strong navy and sailors’ aspirational goal of acting as breadwinners. These conversations gained significance as recruitment demands grew during wartime (1793–1815). Government actions, from the press gang and low wages to translating criminal sentences into naval service, complicated the navy's reputation. By examining state, public and personal records, this article demonstrates the contradictory, complex ways the state and sailors framed naval service and their shared commitment to the ideal of husbands maintaining financially dependent wives.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 2","pages":"530-540"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148532750","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 : 2026-07-15Epub Date: 2025-03-26DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12843
Tuğba Karaman
{"title":"Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press","authors":"Tuğba Karaman","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12843","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press. Both male and female Ottoman reformers actively engaged in these debates, addressing issues such as the inherent nature of men and women (<i>fitra</i>), human biology and the perceived natural differences between the sexes to justify new social roles. By combining Islamic and secular perspectives, these reformers sought to expand the rights and visibility of urban Ottoman women in a rapidly changing society. Through an analysis of these concepts, their application and their ideological underpinnings, this article demonstrates how definitions of gender roles evolved over time. It further reveals how Ottoman reformers justified their calls for women's rights and changes in their status, demonstrating that their efforts aimed not only to redefine Ottoman notions of femininity and masculinity, but also to assert control over them.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 2","pages":"580-595"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12843","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148522845","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 : 2026-07-15Epub Date: 2025-06-03DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12854
Kersti Lust, Andreas Kalkun
{"title":"Illegitimacy and Its Effects on Marriage Prospects in Nineteenth-century and Early Twentieth-century Rural Estonia","authors":"Kersti Lust, Andreas Kalkun","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12854","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Using narrative sources and parish registers to assess the effects of illegitimacy on the life chances of the mothers and children, this article demonstrates how, in nineteenth-century rural Estonia, illegitimacy was stigmatised and reduced the marriage prospects of both single mothers and their daughters. In the period of socio-economic modernisation from the late 1860s to the 1910s, marriage opportunities considerably improved but local differences emerged. In the predominantly Lutheran countryside, illegitimacy was seen not only as the individual responsibility of the parents who had ‘sinned’ but also often as a shame for the whole family of the unwed mother.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 2","pages":"567-579"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148532672","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 : 2026-07-15Epub Date: 2025-03-05DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12840
Taejin Hwang
{"title":"Entwined Liberations: North Korean Democratic Women's Union and Third World Internationalism, 1945–1949","authors":"Taejin Hwang","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12840","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949). The NKDWU articulated that the North Korean women's model of <i>entwined liberations</i> between the revolutionary state and women, as well as among international women's groups, could guide Third World women toward their own postcolonial liberations. This early international solidarity had reciprocal impact: the concept of NKDWU's entwined liberations evolved into a cosmopolitan vision as their interactions increased with international women's organisations, while the agendas of anti-imperialism and aspirations of decolonisation initiated by Asian women that culminated at the 1949 Asian Women's Conference shifted the core tenets of transnational feminism.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 2","pages":"637-646"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12840","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148532537","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}