Gender and HistoryPub Date : 2026-07-15Epub Date: 2025-02-17DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12839
Dong Xiaoyan
{"title":"Uncovering Female Voices in a Male-dominated Discourse: An Analysis of Gender Dynamics in Medical Case Records From the Qing Dynasty, China","authors":"Dong Xiaoyan","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12839","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>By utilizing the pivotal text <i>Wu's Records of Medical Experiences</i>, this research recognizes that the male-centric perspective prevalent in case records overlooks or even disregards women's experiences. Our objective is to explore how this male-centric lens shapes the representation of women. Contrary to the persistent belief that the Chinese gender construct was solely rooted in tradition and oppressive forces, this article contends that even within imperial China – often viewed as a quintessential example of patriarchal society – there was significant flexibility and opportunities for individuals to shape their identities through everyday practices.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 2","pages":"476-486"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148534114","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: 2025-02-17DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12832
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
{"title":"Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth-century Barcelona","authors":"Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12832","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be ashamed of, as well as being a bold challenge against the male line. Through examination of litigation documents, this text describes a case of disinheritance by a mother that occurred in Barcelona in 1732. The analysis considers the different perspectives of those involved in such events, from the struggle over gender representations to small acts of self-affirmation by women who became agents of their own lives.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 2","pages":"487-496"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12832","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148534115","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: 2025-04-23DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12850
Yongku Cha
{"title":"Female Emotional Interactions in Medieval Flanders: Emotional Communities of Twelfth-Century Guines and Ardres","authors":"Yongku Cha","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12850","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12850","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Lambert's <i>Historia</i> allows us to imagine an emotional community in the countryside of twelfth-century Flanders. This masterpiece illustrates a valuable image of the specific affective relationships between female lords and female subjects. ‘The emotional turn’ may reveal important new perspectives on medieval rural society. The women of Guines–Ardres deployed various strategies to create emotional refuge out of a state of emotional chaos. The stories of positive emotional interaction between female lords and subordinate women challenge the traditional view of feudal society as one of inherent class antagonism.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 2","pages":"441-452"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148534405","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: 2025-11-26DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.70004
Jordi Mas Grau, Rafael Cáceres-Feria
{"title":"Migration, Repression and Homosexual Sociability in Francoist Spain: An Analysis of the Case Files of the Special Courts of Barcelona (1965–1975)","authors":"Jordi Mas Grau, Rafael Cáceres-Feria","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In Spain, under General Franco's regime, homosexuality was regarded as an antisocial and dangerous behaviour. It was thus pursued both by the police and judicial courts. The Law on Vagrants and Crooks (1954) and, subsequently, the Law on Dangerousness and Social Rehabilitation (1970) constituted the legal mechanisms used by the dictatorship to lock up and re-socialise homosexuals. In this article, we examine 321 case files of persons of Spanish nationality who emigrated to the city of Barcelona and who were convicted of homosexuality by the Special Courts of Barcelona between 1965 and 1975. The analysis revealed a bias in Francoist justice based on social class and Catholic morality. Those convicted were overwhelmingly young men of limited financial and cultural resources who came from the less developed Spanish regions. However, despite this repression, spheres of homosexual sociability which transgressed the dominant moral norms existed in Barcelona during that period.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 2","pages":"672-679"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.70004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148534455","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: 2025-09-30DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.70003
Mary Sanderson
{"title":"Sodomy, Corruption and Englishness: Politicising Sexuality in Satirical Depictions of William Pitt the Younger, 1784–1790","authors":"Mary Sanderson","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article employs close reading to explore the use of sodomy accusations in satires featuring William Pitt the Younger between 1784 and 1790. Drawing from civic republican rhetoric, Pitt's opponents accused him and his supporters of belonging to a sodomitical cabal that sought to undermine England through despotism, eastern luxury and moral corruption. Although these accusations were rhetorical, they reflected concerns about the malleability of race, sexuality and gender, suggesting that Englishness, masculinity and heterosexuality were dangerously fragile at a time when opposite sex attraction and clear gender distinctions were becoming increasingly important to English identity.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 2","pages":"515-529"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148522912","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: 2025-08-04DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.70005
Gabrielle McCoy
{"title":"Riding Through Norms: Creating and Performing Athletic Femininity at American Ladies’ Equestrian Exhibitions, 1850–1890","authors":"Gabrielle McCoy","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<p>During the nineteenth century, American agricultural fairs often featured ladies’ equestrian exhibitions. At these events, women constructed an athletic femininity based on skill and competitiveness that challenged traditional ideals of womanhood. By analyzing a sample of 362 exhibitions held across ten states from 1850 to 1890, this article studies the emergence of athletic femininity in the context of competitive horseback riding. These findings contribute to the historiography of women's sports and deepen our understanding of women's history by showing how women resisted restrictive gender expectations in the public arenas available to them.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 2","pages":"554-566"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.70005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148532706","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: 2025-04-10DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12848
Grace E. Coolidge
{"title":"Economies of Death: Wills, Gender and Resilience in Toledo, Spain (1576–1697)","authors":"Grace E. Coolidge","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12848","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Plague, inflation and bankruptcy struck Toledo, Spain, in the seventeenth century. This article uses a sample of eighty wills written in Toledo to analyse how people coped. I argue that resilience in Toledo was gendered and relied heavily on the economic activity and agency of women. Women's ability to manage or provide for family, household and community, their development of affective/economic networks within and beyond the household and their affective/economic cooperation with men helped families cope with the daily problems they faced and build an economy that was elastic, adaptive and able to withstand individual deaths and economic troubles.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 2","pages":"464-475"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148533336","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: 2025-08-12DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.70001
Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer
{"title":"‘Let's Turn the Grass Into Meat’: Animal Husbandry as Women's Work in Cold War North Korea","authors":"Sunho Ko, Derek J. Kramer","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In postcolonial North Korea, the future of the nation was said to be a function of the feedlot. Unobtainable on the battlefields of the recently ended Korean War, liberation and unification of the peninsula became a question of competitive developmentalism. In this context, planners and pundits in the North turned to the female farmhands of the agrarian sector to coordinate the scientific and motherly care of the nation's flocks. As demonstrated in this article, a particular intersection of postwar demographics, scientific mobilisation and patriarchal thought led to the establishment of animal husbandry in North Korea as women's work.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 2","pages":"658-671"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.70001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148533363","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":"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}