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{"title":"Introduction: Histories of abortion beyond Roe","authors":"Hannah Frydman,&nbsp;Melissa Reynolds","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12803","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This introduction to the forum of articles on ‘Histories of abortion beyond <i>Roe</i>’ addresses the difficulty of telling abortion (hi)stories without reference to the procedure's legal status. A brief survey of the history of reproductive medical interventions and recent scholarship on US abortion history illustrates how the contemporary concept of ‘abortion’ emerged only once abortion could be narrativised in medical and legal terms as an intentional act. Thus, the stories told about abortion had and continue to have the power to shape abortion's meaning, its history and even its legal status, as summaries of the forum's three articles illustrate.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 2","pages":"289-294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141556704","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 helpless French girl’: Seduction narratives in a nineteenth-century abortion trial","authors":"Brooke Lansing Mai","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12795","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12795","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the 1840s, newspaper reporters and prosecutors in New York City began to use literary tropes about seduction to characterise unmarried women who had abortions. This article uses an 1844 trial over an abortion performed on a young French immigrant woman to demonstrate how the uptake of such tropes obscured women's own perspectives about sexual relations and vilified abortion providers. This process ultimately fostered growing anti-abortion attitudes in the decade before the American Medical Association's campaign to criminalise abortion, revealing the cultural, not just medical, roots of anti-abortion activism in the USA.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 2","pages":"313-326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141556703","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":"Perpetual banishment: The transcarceral crimmigration case of Mary Masako Akimoto","authors":"Jessica R. Pliley","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12791","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12791","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The case of Mary Masako Akimoto illuminates how carceral systems based on immigrant criminalisation, known as crimmigration, intersected with gendered notions of decent and indecent work in 1930s America. Mary Akimoto was deported from the USA in compliance with US anti-sex trafficking law for the crime of selling sex in a brothel (indecent work). Yet, as part of her rehabilitation or as a requirement of her release in the months and years that followed her initial arrest, she regularly found herself in coerced labour situations engaging in vocations gendered as decent work.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 3","pages":"874-889"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12791","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142435768","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":"Bad, mad or both: A legal history of battered woman syndrome","authors":"Anne Gray Fischer","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12792","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The legal struggle for women's right to self-defence since the feminist mobilisation against violence in the 1970s reveals the startling history of the briefly expanded, and swiftly foreclosed, strategies for battered women's freedom in the late twentieth century. Voluminous legal scholarship focuses on the uses, promises and shortcomings of battered woman syndrome in the courts. But a historical accounting of the development and legal career of battered woman syndrome is essential to contextualising why this defence strategy took such tenacious root in the courtroom after the feminist self-defence cases of the 1970s and what was lost in the lurch toward a psychological theory of women's protective violence.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 3","pages":"938-951"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142435769","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":"Bobby pins, belts and diets: Survival strategies of women political prisoners within the gendered carceral regime at Alderson Prison, 1944–1960","authors":"Donna T. Haverty-Stacke","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12793","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12793","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the gendered carceral regime at the Federal Industrial Reformatory for Women at Alderson, West Virginia that was created by its first superintendent, Mary Belle Harris and the experiences of three women political prisoners – Grace Holmes Carlson, Helen Bryan and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn – who served time at Alderson between 1944 and 1960. It offers a critical analysis of Carlson's, Bryan's and Flynn's firsthand accounts of their time in prison to reveal these women's strategies for surviving Alderson's reforming mission that included, paradoxically, both a rejection of the middle-class femininity inherent in that mission and, at times, an accommodation to it.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 3","pages":"904-919"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141107288","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":"Correction to Trans-gender things: Objects and the materiality of trans-femininity in Ming-Qing China","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12790","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12790","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Huang, A. 2024. “Trans-gender things: Objects and the materiality of trans-femininity in Ming-Qing China.” <i>Gender &amp; History</i> 36: 52–71. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12766</p><p>In the following three citations, volume has been replaced by page numbers:</p><p>Citation 5 has been corrected from ‘Sara Ahmed, <i>Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others</i> (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006), vol. 87, p. 161’ to ‘Sara Ahmed, <i>Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others</i> (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006), pp. 87, 161’.</p><p>Citation 6 has been corrected from ‘Judith Butler, <i>Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex</i> (New York: Taylor &amp; Francis Group, 2011), vol. xxi–xxiv, pp. 181–5’ to ‘Judith Butler, <i>Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex</i> (New York: Taylor &amp; Francis Group, 2011), pp. xxi–xxiv, 181–5’.</p><p>Citation 80 has been corrected from ‘Vitiello, <i>The Libertine's Friend</i>, vol. 34, p. 219’ to ‘Vitiello, <i>The Libertine's Friend</i>, pp. 34, 219’.</p><p>In citation 101 two incorrect abbreviations have been removed from the titles of:</p><p>‘Jessica Hinchy, <i>Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c. pp. 1850–1900</i> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)’ should have read ‘Jessica Hinchy, <i>Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c.1850–1900</i> (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)’.</p><p>‘Jamey Jesperson, ‘Trans Misogyny in the Colonial Archive: Re-Membering Trans Feminine Life and Death in New Spain', pp. 1604–1821, <i>Gender &amp; History</i> 36 (2023)’ should have read ‘Jamey Jesperson, ‘Trans Misogyny in the Colonial Archive: Re-Membering Trans Feminine Life and Death in New Spain, 1604–1821’, <i>Gender &amp; History</i> 36 (2024)’.</p><p>We apologize for these errors.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 2","pages":"804"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12790","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140994280","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":"How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea by Sandra Eder, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022, p. 334, ISBN-978-0226819938.","authors":"Casey Olthaus","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12782","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12782","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 2","pages":"798-799"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140212011","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":"Telling abortion stories: The life of Florence P. Evans (1913–1935)","authors":"Hannah M. Stamler","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12781","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12781","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This short article provides a coda to the special forum on ‘Reproductive Rights Beyond <i>Roe</i>’. It merges the history of abortion with what Stéphane Gerson calls ‘personal family history’ to consider how historians should imagine, remember and narrativise histories of abortions within their own families and networks of kin. The article does this by way of exploring the life of Florence P. Evans, the author's great aunt, who died of abortion-related complications in 1935 at the age of twenty-two years.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 2","pages":"327-333"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12781","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140389862","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":"A National Park for Women's Rights: The Campaign That Made It Happen by Judy Hart, Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2023, pp. ix-209, ISBN-978-1501771651.","authors":"Audrey Foster","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12780","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12780","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 2","pages":"800-801"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140251276","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":"Historicising trans pasts: An introduction","authors":"Chris Mowat,&nbsp;Joanna de Groot,&nbsp;Maroula Perisanidi","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12777","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;In Arundhati Roy's novel &lt;i&gt;The Ministry of Utmost Happiness&lt;/i&gt;, Ustad Kulsoom Bi frequently takes the new initiates of her hijra household to a Sound and Light show at the historic Red Fort in Old Delhi, India.&lt;sup&gt;2&lt;/sup&gt; At one moment in the show, during a section covering the year 1739, the audience can clearly hear the ‘deep, distinct, rasping, coquettish giggle of a court eunuch’.&lt;sup&gt;3&lt;/sup&gt; For Kulsoom Bi, this laugh represents a direct line of connection between the court eunuchs of early modern India and today's hijras, and so is incontestable evidence of her place, and the place of her chosen family, in history – and thus in the present, and future, landscape of Delhi. Histories of non-normative genders, bodies and expressions are of course much more plural and diverse than implied by transhistorical lines; however, this does not diminish the power of the eunuch's chuckle: its echo allows past and present identities to touch.&lt;sup&gt;4&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A common refrain in transgender activism beyond the academy is ‘we have always been here’, and indeed it is possible to find evidence of non-normative gender experiences in some of the earliest human societies. This can serve as a way of understanding responses to transness in our own societies, as well as imagining alternative responses to gender variance.&lt;sup&gt;5&lt;/sup&gt; Trans history, then, as with so many historical projects, retains one foot firmly in the present, as it faces the future. As Hil Maltino writes in his 2020 book &lt;i&gt;Trans Care&lt;/i&gt;, the search for ‘trancestors’ can be a way of escaping the current anti-trans climate and finding ‘a roadmap for another way of being’.&lt;sup&gt;6&lt;/sup&gt; Reading trans pasts, in all their diversity, allows us to read trans futures and (re)create trans possibilities. But there is a careful balance to be negotiated here, and we must be careful to see someone's roadmap in their wider context, without assuming each journey can and must be the same. We should ask, instead, how individuals have been recognised by the societies in which they lived, positively and negatively, and how they have resisted the boxes that do not represent them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Like Kulsoom Bi, Villada is in her own way engaging in making history. Rather than hearing chuckles, for her it is the scorn that draws a connection between how travestis past and present have responded to the negativity they receive on the grounds of their gender identity and presentation. The stakes of her community's claim in history (and, thus, the present and future landscapes of Argentina) are grounded in the specificity of travesti experience, and to overwrite that with a single essentialised idea of ‘trans’ risks losing the meaningfulness of that community. This is something that we cannot lose sight of and, if a framework of historised trans pasts is to be productive, it cannot and must not erase the vast variety of experiences or lump a range of lives together into a simple, singular narrative.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A different, t","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 1","pages":"3-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12777","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140031895","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}