{"title":"The shape of sex: Nonbinary gender from genesis to the renaissance by Leah DeVun, New York: Columbia University Press, 2021, pp. xiv–315, ISBN-978-0231195515.","authors":"Gabrielle Bychowski","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12771","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 1","pages":"275-277"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140031941","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":"On the Field: Race, Gender and Sports in Colonial Ghana","authors":"Claire Nicolas","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12773","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12773","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyses Ghanaian women's sport practice from the late nineteenth century to the late 1950s, from games intertwined with displays of colonial authority to school competitions, physical education and tennis. The article argues that their performances played with changing categorisations of African girlhood and womanhood, especially as young literate women from cosmopolitan urban families were expected to uphold the highest physical, moral and intellectual standards, with an explicit focus on respectability and physical fitness. Not only were these calls constrained by gendered and class-related norms, but they also established these norms in connection with Western activities.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 2","pages":"621-635"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12773","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140481227","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":"Of mermaids and monsters: Transgender history and the boundaries of the human in eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Britain","authors":"Onni Gust","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12769","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12769","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The figure of the monster has long been used by trans and intersex scholars, artists and activists to articulate their sense of being in a world dominated by binary, cisgender norms. Yet what does it mean to embrace ‘the monstrous’ and how might that embrace inform the construction of transgender history? This article examines the specificities of ‘the monstrous’ in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and empire by focusing on two figures at the boundary of the human: ‘the mermaid’ and ‘the hermaphrodite’. In doing so, it asks what the histories of these two marginal figures might tell us about the construction of ‘the human’ and argues that an alignment with the monster might enable trans historians to ally themselves with a vision of the future that goes beyond anthropocentrism.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 1","pages":"112-129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2024-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12769","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139595166","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 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 Feminism and the Women's Liberation Movement in Britain, c. 1970–1980","authors":"Sam Caslin","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12767","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12767","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The history of the British women's liberation movement (WLM) is a growing field of study, but it has had little to say about trans participants in the movement. Drawing on feminist and LGBT+ archives and interviews, this article argues that while trans acceptance in ‘women-only’ groups was not guaranteed during the period between 1970 and 1980, trans and cis feminists worked together to advance feminist positions on bodily autonomy and to develop critiques of medical authority. In doing so, this article demonstrates that it is ahistorical to approach trans rights and women's liberation as distinct from one another.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 2","pages":"748-763"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2024-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12767","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139621202","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":"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":"‘To assume another name’: Race, gender, family and name changing in New York City, 1887–2012","authors":"Kirsten Fermaglich","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12763","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12763","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The name-change petitions housed in the New York City Civil Court allow us to see the ways that Jewish families, cisgender women and transgender people throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries used state mechanisms to challenge institutionalised antisemitism and traditional definitions of family and gender. At the same time, however, the petitions also indicate the oppressive elements of the state, as these groups increasingly felt it necessary to undertake the emotional and physical labour entailed in official name changing to establish the personal identity and familial authority that cisgender men are granted automatically in US legal tradition.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 1","pages":"218-233"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12763","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139146973","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}