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":"147615431","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":"‘Done Decently and in Order’: Christianity and the Public Segregation of Women in Late Antique Rome and Constantinople (300–600 CE)","authors":"Robert Liam Heffron","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article looks at the ways in which gendered and social segregation was carried out within Christian, religious spaces and events, in the Late Antique cities of Rome and Constantinople. It considers the reasons for, and methods used in, separating men and women, as well as elite women from other, non-elite women. Taking a comparative approach, the practices of both cities are contrasted. So, too, are the practices found in Christian spaces compared to those used within traditional Roman religious rites. Finally, the importance of movement as a determiner for the effectiveness of segregation will be considered.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 3","pages":"805-816"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145779517","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":"A Black Girl's Coming of Age in Jim Crow Philadelphia, Pennsylvania","authors":"Christina J. Thomas","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the late twentieth century, Geraldine L. Wilson emerged as one of the leading voices in early Black childhood education, grounding her pedagogy in Black history and culture. This article traces the origins of her intellectual thought to her girlhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Using historian Jarvis R. Givens' framework of ‘Black student witness’ it examines what Wilson experienced in the city's integrated yet segregated public school system during the 1930s and 1940s, exploring how these educational spaces birthed a Black woman educator and thinker who reimagined a new educational future for Black children.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 3","pages":"906-918"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.70021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145779611","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":"Being Ithna Asheri: Khoja Shia Ithna Asheri Girls, the International School of Tanganyika and Segregation in Postcolonial Dar es Salaam, Tanzania","authors":"Husseina Dinani","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines segregation in postcolonial Dar es Salaam through the lens of girlhood by focusing on Khoja Shia Ithna Asheri (Ithna Asheri) women's experiences of being students at the city's most diverse and prestigious school, the International School of Tanganyika (IST), from the 1980s to the early 2000s. The study argues that longstanding and evolving racial, class and inter-Asian segregation entrenched religious-based gender segregation for Ithna Asheri girls. The entanglement of continuing colonial-era racial and ethnic segregation, the post-independence state's anti-segregationist socialist policies and the Ithna Asheri community's endorsement of Islamic <i>purdah</i> in the 1980s yielded an Ithna Asheri girlhood respectability that was gender-segregationist, restricting Ithna Asheri girls’ social autonomy. The study also contends that the manifestation of <i>purdah</i> was powerful but not hegemonic. IST Ithna Asheri girls pushed against segregationist boundaries to pursue undertakings they aspired to, as well as practice Ithna Asherism according to their preferences. IST Ithna Asheri girls’ actions impacted Ithna Asheri girlhood respectability and forged greater gender, racial, ethnic and class integration.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 3","pages":"946-957"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.70020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145779503","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":"Gendered Segregation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and the Making of Bertha Mkhize (1889–1981)","authors":"Meghan Healy-Clancy","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70011","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article explores the life of ubiquitous South African activist Bertha Mkhize, drawing upon interviews and archives. A trained teacher, she became a tailor and leader in the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union in Durban in the 1920s. She then attained national prominence in the African National Congress. Yet by 1960, she separated herself from formal politics in Durban to build rural religious communities in the Bahá’í Faith. Mkhize's trajectory reflects the complexity of African women's engagement with gendered segregation – shifting between strategies of confrontation against state-defined separation and attempts to build alternative separatist communities, within and outside formal politics.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 3","pages":"884-894"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145772359","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":"Gendering a Public Educational Campaign Against Leprosy in the US-Occupied Philippines, 1928–1929","authors":"Febe D. Pamonag","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The gendered nature of anti-leprosy campaigns in the colonial Philippines remains understudied in historical scholarship. Through the lens of gender, this article examines an educational campaign (1928–1929) that was conducted by the Philippine Anti-Leprosy Society, a civic organisation, within <i>The Woman's Outlook</i> magazine. Women were both actors and objects of the campaign, which supported a contested public health measure that segregated and confined leprosy-affected Filipinos in government leprosaria. This study, therefore, offers insights into the motivations and implications of women's support for contested policies in the contexts of colonialism and women's struggle for their rights.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 3","pages":"895-905"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145779424","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}
Lisa Hellman, Julia Hillner, Daniel J. R. Grey, Rachel Jean-Baptiste
{"title":"Gender and Segregation: An Introduction","authors":"Lisa Hellman, Julia Hillner, Daniel J. R. Grey, Rachel Jean-Baptiste","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This introduction to the Special Issue explores the ways in which a gendered analysis illuminates histories of segregation. It argues three key points. First, it is essential to understand segregation from an intersectional perspective, one that fully integrates gender alongside other factors and dynamics in order to fully understand the differences and similarities in segregation between different regional and temporal contexts. The second is the need to go beyond the most obviously applicable and well-known historical examples of segregation to other times and places. Third, focusing on segregation is not, and should not be, limited to processes of seclusion alone.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 3","pages":"795-804"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.70022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145772690","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":"The Girls Are in Town: Purdah, Emotions and Everyday Resistance in Urban Pakistan","authors":"Elisabetta Iob","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Pakistan, mid-1950s. Many upper-class women had already left or were about to leave <i>purdah</i> (or its remnants). This article investigates how these women challenged seclusion, redefining relations of power, femininity, emotions and the design of urban and public spaces. Drawing on material and visual culture, newspaper clippings and government records, it uncovers the strategies women used to cleverly manipulate the social and emotional intricacies of seclusion to contest and, eventually, subvert the rules of <i>purdah</i>. It goes on to illuminate the pivotal role of non-Western women and their gendered, situated agency in reshaping women's and global history.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 3","pages":"931-945"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145779594","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":"A Harem in Disorder: Narrating Elite Female Seclusion in Late Mughal Delhi","authors":"Emma Kalb","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the late Mughal period, a time of dramatic political reconfiguration, to trace the relevance of practices of elite female seclusion, and particularly of the complex space of the imperial harem, to narrations of an empire under strain. Contemporary Persian-language histories of the reign of Ahmad Shāh (1748–1754) provide divergent accounts of internal and external threats to the sanctity and order of the harem, expressed in differential representations of even its most prominent denizens and their diverse social backgrounds. This article argues that this evidence reveals the centrality of the birth and social origins of individual harem women to how gender segregation was variously invoked within articulations of dynastic vulnerability. Attention to these diverse representations enables a better understanding of the multiple ways in which elite female seclusion was understood, referenced and negotiated during a period of uncertainty and change, both in the historical sources and by historical actors themselves.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 3","pages":"817-827"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.70000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145779559","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":"Armed Women at the Polling Grounds: Black Rural Working Women's Struggle Against Election-Day Segregation in South Carolina, 1874–1895","authors":"Gregory P. Downs","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This article examines testimony about Black rural women's physical, sometimes violent, interventions in Reconstruction era South Carolina elections to illuminate the relationship between race, space and gender in shaping power and access to it. Election-day ballot boxes became identified as spaces of gendered exclusion after the enfranchisement of Black adult male residents in 1867 and created expectations of gendered segregation nearby. But Black women violated and tested those norms to claim their role in creating a cohesive, sometimes-coercive political community.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 3","pages":"875-883"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145779546","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}