Gender and HistoryPub Date : 2026-03-26Epub Date: 2024-04-07DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12783
Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño
{"title":"Mujeres Públicas and women in public: Scrutinising the history of prostitution in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Mexico","authors":"Nora E. Jaffary, Luis Londoño","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12783","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12783","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Past studies of prostitution have mislabelled Mexican women as prostitutes when it is not clear that they had engaged in transactional sex. Here, we examine the history of prostitution between 1750 and 1865, detailing both legal frameworks and judicial evidence to address the reasons for the inflation of prostitution's presence in Mexico. These sources reveal that the exaggeration of prostitution's presence is explained by the fact that prostitution was often associated with another legal category – <i>amancebamiento</i> (cohabitation), and that female cohabiters were recreated in the minds of court officials and other observers when their ‘scanadalous’ behaviour rendered them prostitutes.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 1","pages":"86-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12783","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140733463","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":"147615117","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: 2024-07-03DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12804
K. Mitchell Snow
{"title":"Power to the posers: Delsartean women, the law of correspondence and the classical male body","authors":"K. Mitchell Snow","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12804","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12804","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the late nineteenth century, female adherents of the Delsartean physical culture movement in the USA would perform statue poses as part of their training and public appearances, employing both male and female statues in their work. This article positions this practice within seventeenth- and eighteenth-century historical trajectories of the visual, rhetorical and performing arts and the allegorical meanings that prior generations had mapped onto the bodies of these works of art. This article argues that the Delsartean ‘law of correspondence’ equating internal states with external expression allowed their statue posing to serve as a tacit statement of gender equality.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 1","pages":"102-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141680774","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 : 2026-03-26Epub Date: 2024-07-05DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12805
Imogen Knox
{"title":"Faithful men and false women: Love-suicide in early modern English popular print","authors":"Imogen Knox","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12805","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12805","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion. Within this literature, however, young women often bore the blame for male suicide, influenced by early modern ideas about the innate characteristics of men and women. This examination interrogates a context in which suicide, rather than being condemned, was consistently depicted sympathetically. It also sheds crucial light on the representation and performance of masculinity and femininity in courtship and matters of love.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 1","pages":"53-69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12805","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141675463","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: 2024-02-02DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12774
Joseph Lawson
{"title":"Strangers on the ladder of the party-state: Women in teaching in Nationalist Taiwan, 1940s–1980s","authors":"Joseph Lawson","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12774","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12774","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As the ruling party of a party-state in China and Taiwan, the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang/Guomindang) built a close relationship with the teaching profession. Many teachers joined the party and there was a well-trodden pathway from teaching into local representative politics and civil service. In the early 1950s when most teachers were men, the party's special relationship with teaching was consistent with a generally conservative approach to gender. Large numbers of women entered teaching from the late 1940s. This was a global trend but was accelerated in Taiwan by the unique form of coloniality on the island in the post war era. The government required teachers to be Mandarin-speakers and favoured Mainlanders. Although Taiwanese women were still disadvantaged, Mainland women had some advantage over Taiwanese men. The rapid rise of women in teaching sparked a degree of resistance, which was in turn countered by rhetoric that feminised teaching. Despite such resistance, the party-state's pathways from teaching into politics endured and facilitated the entry of a significant number of women into local electoral politics.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 1","pages":"273-288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12774","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139683425","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: 2024-06-17DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12794
Muriel Moser
{"title":"Scandalisation, gender and space in ancient Rome: The case of Cicero and Clodia","authors":"Muriel Moser","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12794","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12794","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyses the public attack on Clodia Metelli, a Roman aristocratic woman, by the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in a trial in 56 BCE. Drawing on modern scandal theory, this article analyses how Cicero uses scandal dynamics to turn Clodia, the witness in the case, into the culprit. The article discusses, first, the dynamics of his scandalisation of Clodia and the importance of Roman gender norms and their spatial expressions in his attack and, second, Cicero's role as scandaliser and norm-setter.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 1","pages":"5-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12794","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147585135","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: 2025-01-30DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12831
Ekaterina Oleshkevich
{"title":"Hired Childcare and Changing Maternal Perceptions Among the Urban Poor: Baby Farming in the Western Lands of Late Imperial Russia","authors":"Ekaterina Oleshkevich","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12831","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores baby farming in the western regions of late imperial Russia, framing it as a childcare practice of the lower-classes – a form of crèche for working mothers. The article delves into the public discourse surrounding baby farming among the educated strata and contrasts it with how this practice was viewed by the lower-classes. I argue that baby farming was a form of wage labour – one of the few options available for middle-aged urban women – and that the use of baby farmers’ services by mothers demonstrates the changing maternal perceptions among the lower-classes.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 1","pages":"158-171"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12831","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147615336","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: 2024-10-09DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12823
Hilary Falb Kalisman
{"title":"Apostles of knowledge: Feminine modernities and the travelling schoolmistresses of interwar Iraq","authors":"Hilary Falb Kalisman","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12823","url":null,"abstract":"<p>During the interwar era, nearly all of Iraq's secondary schoolmistresses journeyed to Iraq from other corners of the Arab world. This article examines their extraordinary lives, impact on their students and the feminine modernity that these women represented. Policymakers, officials and intellectuals sought to spread women's education, linking it to a global vision of modern domesticity. In contrast, the schoolmistresses of interwar Iraq, the first women in the region to receive higher education, tied their journeys to their gender, underscoring that travel and a ‘modern’ education created a different type of ‘new woman’ who was to be, and to remain, exceptional.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 1","pages":"224-239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147614869","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 : 2026-03-26Epub Date: 2024-11-14DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12825
Tim Somers
{"title":"Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks","authors":"Tim Somers","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12825","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12825","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article discusses the comical representation of inter-male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness. This article instead argues that common jests about false honour and aggressive civility affirmed changing emotional norms regulating anger and violence. It discusses continuities in masculinities and politeness and outlines a register of wit, or ‘civil mirth’, that ridiculed public quarrelling and modelled scripts based upon self-control and ‘good humour’.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 1","pages":"70-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12825","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147579824","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: 2024-03-04DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12778
Stephanie Lämmert
{"title":"Shameful or shameless? Anxieties about mothers and women's autonomy on the Central African Copperbelt, 1956–1964","authors":"Stephanie Lämmert","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12778","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12778","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article deals with anxiety about and the shaming of modern urban mothers and wives on the mines of the late colonial Central African Copperbelt. Women's various labours and public presence lead to ambivalent depictions, such as the ‘careless mother’, that were part of a broader array of anxieties about women's autonomy on the mines. However, urban women rejected such labelling and resisted the isolation of modern motherhood. Instead, they created networks of mutual support and solidarity, they publicly shamed their failing breadwinners, supported one another financially, emotionally and through expressing solidarity in the press, thus seeking economic independence where possible.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"38 1","pages":"289-306"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12778","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147579678","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}