{"title":"A body of one's own: A trans history of Argentina by Patricio Simonetto, Austen: University of Texas Press, 2024, p. 320, ISBN- 978-1477328606.","authors":"Mir Yarfitz","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12772","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12772","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 1","pages":"280-281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139610118","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":"Histories of aging and gender variability: Old age in the nineteenth-century ‘Hijra’/‘Eunuch’ archive","authors":"Jessica Hinchy","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12749","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12749","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Queer, trans and gender histories have destabilised concepts of childhood and adolescence and thereby shown how age-stratification and normative notions of time are produced through gender and sexual normativity. However, scholars can productively consider how gender variability produces, negotiates or unravels hegemonic concepts of old age. This article analyses narratives about old age and gender variability from late nineteenth-century north India. While elderly, gender non-conforming people were often constructed as soon-to-die, this article highlights more capacious meanings of old age.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 1","pages":"130-150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139527480","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":"Trans talmud: Androgynes and eunuchs in rabbinic literature by Max K. Strassfeld, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2023, pp. 1–262, ISBN-978-0520397392.","authors":"Krista Dalton","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12770","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12770","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 1","pages":"282-283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139529957","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":"Music in Colonial Punjab: Courtesans, Bards, and Connoisseurs, 1800–1947 by Radha Kapuria, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023, pp. 410, ISBN-978-0192867346.","authors":"Anshu Malhotra","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12768","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12768","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 2","pages":"790-791"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139440114","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":"Trans-gender things: Objects and the materiality of trans-femininity in Ming-Qing China","authors":"Aixia Huang","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12766","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12766","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article demonstrates that objects, more specifically the trans usage of objects that disrupted and rearticulated the normative alignment of objects, sexed bodies and gender embodiments, served a formative role in helping male-assigned individuals to cross gender boundaries and achieve trans-femininity in Ming-Qing China. The examined objects include the foot-binding cloth for the feminine bodily image of bound feet, the embroidery needle for ‘womanly work’ and concealing underwear for feminine, penetrated sexual acts. This object-oriented heuristic offers a new culturally specific approach to trans history beyond identarian frameworks and foregrounds the material multiplicity of trans formations and embodiments in Ming-Qing China.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 1","pages":"52-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12766","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139448655","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":"LASTESIS in conversation: Art, rights and resistance for the twenty-first century, 16 November 2023","authors":"Molly Avery","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12765","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12765","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 2","pages":"802-803"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139148413","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":"Reaching for T in the South African archives","authors":"Noah Lubinsky","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12760","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12760","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article proposes a methodology of reaching in historicity. It does so by tracing the technical object of synthetic testosterone as it has been used by trans people for gender affirming care. To show the usefulness of the method, this article employs it first in relation to mentions of synthetic testosterone in the <i>South African Medical Journal</i> as a primer to understanding its relationship to the state and the law in South Africa from 1963 to 2003, reaching an apex in the Cape Town Transsexual/Transgender Groups advocacy for self-identification, much of which hinged on the role of synthetic testosterone.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 1","pages":"257-274"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12760","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138604347","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":"On knowing nature's syntax: Preliminary cisness, victorian physiology and George Eliot","authors":"Alexis A. Ferguson","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12757","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12757","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As a trans intervention in Victorian studies and historical extension of recent work in trans studies, this article argues that the theorisation of natural laws in mid-nineteenth century, British physiology produces a ‘preliminary cisness’ in Victorian sexual science. By then juxtaposing George Eliot's <i>Adam Bede</i> with work by Herbert Spencer and George Henry Lewes and undertaking a close study of the characters Hetty Sorrel and Dinah Morris, this article suggests that Eliot offers social sympathy as a non-cis, epistemological alternative to the ethical risks of pre-cis sex.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 1","pages":"151-166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12757","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138605507","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":"Before we were trans: A new history of gender by Kit Heyam, London: Basic Books, 2022, p. 343, ISBN-13 9781529377743.","authors":"Cecily Bateman","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12758","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12758","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 1","pages":"278-279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139233701","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":"Writing trans histories with an ethics of care, while reading gender in imperial Roman literature","authors":"Ky Merkley","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12751","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12751","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Two major barriers interfere with writing trans histories of the premodern world: the conflict between creating a legible or foreignised past and balancing the vastness of the social system of gender against individual performances of gender identity. In this article, I propose one methodology to bypass these barriers. Additionally, this methodology reminds us that both gender and history are systems which we use to generate narratives about ourselves and that these narratives always care for and nourish certain people. Here, I issue a call for trans historians to unabashedly write histories that care for and nourish trans lives.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 1","pages":"14-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12751","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139265579","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}