{"title":"Entering the archive of second-wave trans feminist print culture: The journal of male feminism","authors":"Emily Cousens","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12703","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12703","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Common stories of second-wave feminism equate the period either explicitly or by reference to its presumed biological essentialism, with trans-exclusionary feminism. This article deep-dives into issues published between 1977 and 1979 of the <i>Journal of Male Feminism</i>, an underground newsletter for a predominantly North American-based male-to-female (M-T-F) cross-dressing community. It argues that these texts contain a rich set of theoretical resources and nuanced perspectives on sex and gender developed by trans people in the 1970s and therefore deserve to be read as part of an expanded canon of second-wave feminism.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 1","pages":"224-240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12703","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129700647","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":"Dying for The Nation: Death, Grief and Bereavement in Second World War Britain (Series: Cultural History of Modern War) by Lucy Noakes, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020, p. 304, ISBN: 978-0-7190-8759-2. The Age of the Gas Mask: How British Civilians Faces the Terrors of Total War by Susan R. Grayzel, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. xiv ± 273, ISBN: 9781108491273.","authors":"Julie V. Gottlieb","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12714","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"35 3","pages":"1156-1157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50139920","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":"Women of the Empire at Ajmer's <i>Dargah</i>: Negotiating Sacred and Civic at a Prominent Sufi Pilgrimage Site, 1900–1920","authors":"Aishani Gupta","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12711","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines the experiences of four colonial and imperial women at the Sufi tomb complex of Muin al‐Din Chishti (d.1236 CE) in Ajmer during the latter years of British Raj in India. It specifically looks at the ways in which pre‐modern sacred sites and their male custodians were implicated in various municipal and legal apparatuses of the early twentieth century through petitions, complaints and patronage of women as pilgrims, visitors or family members. We first look at the complaints of a courtesan from Lucknow, who petitioned the British Government to claim maintenance from the Sajjada‐Nashin (the biological descent of the Sufi saint buried there). Then we move on to Muslim lady who complained to the colonial officials about being tortured and ill treated by her Sufi in‐laws. The third incident pertains to the wife of the British Chief Commissioner of Ajmer, whose molestation by Khadims (keepers of the shrine) was deftly brushed under the carpet by the local administration. The fourth is Queen‐Empress Mary herself, who granted royal patronage to the shrine by donating money which was then used to build an ablution tank and called the Victoria Tank. Tracing these fragmentary stories of their visits, this article argues that colonial and imperial women negotiated parallel forms of spiritual and political authorities at sacred spaces in order to fulfil their personal and public obligations. Their encounters with the bustling burial complex, its keepers and administrators also urge us to ponder on broader issues of gender, sexuality and race as they played out in such significant nodes across colonial South Asia.","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136355984","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":"Women's Activism in Twentieth–Century Britain: Making a Difference Across the Political Spectrum By Paula Bartley, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. xii–286, ISBN 978-3-030-92720-2.","authors":"Lisa Berry-Waite","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12713","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"35 3","pages":"1158-1159"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50152758","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":"Contraception and Modern Ireland: A Social History by Laura Kelly, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, pp. 1–363, ISBN 978-1-108-9677-2.","authors":"Lorraine Grimes","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12709","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"35 3","pages":"1160-1162"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50130580","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":"Women, Gender and Human Rights: Women's International Organisations and Solidarity with Chile","authors":"María Fernanda Lanfranco González","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12701","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12701","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyses the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's (WILPF) and Women's International Democratic Federation's (WIDF) fact-finding missions sent to Chile in 1974. It explains how women's international organisations presented reports and information about human rights abuses during Genera Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship (1973–1990). By using their publications, oral interviews, memoirs and press reports, the study sheds light on the extensive efforts deployed by the WILPF and WIDF to disseminate knowledge and promote actions designed to improve the lives of Chilean women. The article shows that women's international organisations promoted inclusive ideas of rights, including women's particular experiences under military rule, and that such efforts built in the organisations' previous experiences of human rights activism.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"35 3","pages":"830-845"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49450027","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":"Embracing the Language of Human Rights: International Women's Organisations, Feminism and Campaigns Against the Marriage Bar, c.1919–1960","authors":"Helen Glew","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12705","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12705","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article considers four international women's organisations – the International Council of Women, the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship, the International Federation of University Women and the Open Door International – and their campaigns for the right of married women to undertake paid work. It examines how each organisation adopted and engaged with the language of human rights in the late 1920s and 1930s. It is argued that after 1948, precisely because of its formal adoption by the UN, the language of human rights became less usable as a way to make the point that women still faced inequalities, and so other framings became more significant. This article contributes to historiographies on international women's organisations, offers a detailed discussion of their activism against the marriage bar, and challenges the conventional chronology of the concept and language of human rights.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"35 3","pages":"780-794"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12705","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45394303","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":"‘Once and For All’: The Fourth UN World Conference on Women and the Institutionalisation of Women's Human Rights in American Foreign Policy","authors":"Rebecca Turkington","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12704","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12704","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Though the slogan predates the Fourth UN World Conference on Women, ‘women's rights are human rights’ has become inextricably linked to US First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's keynote address at the 1995 Conference in Beijing. The speech turned a line socialised by transnational feminist organisers into a State Department mantra with long-lasting policy ripples still felt today. This article uses new sources from the Office of the First Lady to examine the intra-departmental dynamics, policy architecture and domestic political considerations that shaped the content of the speech and the Clinton Administration's conception of women's rights as human rights. Early documents show that a focus on human rights was not inevitable, as other policy areas were better developed with more public support. But fear of rollback from previous international standards, external pressures from civil society, a desire to link foreign policy with domestic political aims and ultimately a strong backlash to American participation at the Conference on the basis of China's human rights record all elevated women's human rights as a US delegation priority.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"35 3","pages":"846-861"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12704","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48908373","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":"Women's International Thought: Towards A New Canon Edited by Patricia Owens, Katharina Rietzler, Kimberly Hutchings and Sarah C. Dunstan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 776, ISBN: 9781108999762.","authors":"Gaynor Johnson","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12695","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"35 2","pages":"767-768"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50130748","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":"Women in Wartime: Theatrical Representations in the Long Eighteenth Century By Paula R. Backscheider, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022, pp. 456 ISBN-10 1421441675.","authors":"Meghan Kobza","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12693","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12693","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"35 2","pages":"759-760"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50155566","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}