{"title":"Trans misogyny in the colonial archive: Re-membering trans feminine life and death in New Spain, 1604–1821","authors":"Jamey Jesperson","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12733","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12733","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Traces of trans feminine pasts are scattered all across the colonial archive. In New Spain, glimpses of Indigenous trans women's lives can be found in the records of conquistadors as early as the sixteenth century. While such early colonial representations of trans femininity span myriad religious, imperial and literary contexts, they are all underpinned by one harrowing reality: the widespread, colonial pursuit of trans feminine death. To ‘re-member’ – á la Saylesh Wesley – trans feminine pasts in the colonial archive, this article traces structures of, and resistance to, <i>colonial trans misogyny</i> in the sodomy criminal trials of Mexico (1604–1771) and the Catholic missions of California (1769–1821). Pushing against an extant ‘cistoriography’ that has simply archived these stories within the history of sexuality, I ask: What may be gleaned by centring trans femininity and womanhood as core to not only the lives of historical subjects, but the reason many of their lives were so violently taken? By re-membering trans misogyny in this way, we may finally name and centre the long-erased trans feminine historical subject, illuminate the complex, changing structures of her past worlds and trace the oft-forgotten lineages of not just trans feminine death, but trans feminine <i>survivance</i> in its face.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 1","pages":"91-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12733","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135259558","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 Bishop, ‘Magic’ and Women: Episcopal Visitation of the Diocese, Laywomen and the Supernatural, and Clerical Authority in the Central Middle Ages","authors":"Greta Austin","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12732","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12732","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Texts that prohibit laywomen from accessing the supernatural appear in the <i>Libri duo</i> of Regino of Prüm (<i>c</i>.906 CE) and the <i>Decretum</i> of Burchard of Worms (<i>c</i>.1020 CE). Regino and Burchard designed their handbooks for bishops to use as they visited their diocese. The handbooks forbade laywomen from accessing the supernatural through informal practices, which the texts contrasted to the male clergy's ritual access to supernatural authority. This article highlights that Regino's and Burchard's texts created a gendered hierarchy, one which associated women with illicit access to the supernatural and emphasised male clerical authority.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 1","pages":"5-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134970719","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 Suppliers to Medieval Courts: Making Visible Ducal and Royal Power","authors":"Katherine A. Wilson","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12728","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12728","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyses under-studied women suppliers to medieval courts, with a focus on Burgundian and French courts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Through its archival research, it identifies over a hundred women involved in creating, supplying and repairing objects. Starting from the objects supplied, provisioned or repaired by women, the article seeks to understand women suppliers as significant actors in ducal and royal households through the way in which the objects they supplied became visible and meaningful expressions of ducal and royal power.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 1","pages":"33-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12728","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135981837","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 Rights as Human Rights after the End of History","authors":"Celia Donert","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12729","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12729","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article is based on the 2022 Gender & History annual lecture. It reconsiders the recent history of women's rights as human rights. The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union brought to an end a twentieth-century discourse of women's rights, understood not only as legal norms, but as a political language harnessed to a narrative of women as a collective subject progressing towards emancipation and equality. This was enabled by an international order in which human rights were tied to visions of self-determination, social rights and strong states, creating spaces for new subjects to make their voices heard in international law, albeit in particular and circumscribed ways. After 1989, women were again written into international law primarily as victims of violence, while the emergence of gender as a category of analysis challenged the notion of ‘women’ as a collective subject of rights. The story of women's rights, the article concludes, suggests that recent revisionist histories of human rights as a neoliberal utopia are only one part of a more complex human rights history.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"35 3","pages":"862-880"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12729","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50128063","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":"‘No, we're not going away’: Two trans activist lives in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1974–1987","authors":"Will Hansen","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12731","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12731","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Utilising interviews conducted with two transgender women, Chanel Hati and ‘CJ’, this article will explore trans activism from 1974 to 1987. Though both were members of politically active trans communities with shared priorities around community building and trans pride, the intersections of race and class meant these communities operated in vastly different ways. Hati and her fellow trans sex workers practiced a politics of difference, while CJ's community, largely white and middle class, prioritised inclusion. This article will explore the relationships between these communities, highlighting their practices of resistance, as well as the implications of intersectionality on the historicising of these trans pasts.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 1","pages":"241-256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12731","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124498074","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 Story of Miss C.’s Seduction of Young Women. A Methodological Quest into Female Same-Sex Relations at the Turn of the Twentieth Century","authors":"Rikke Andreassen","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12730","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12730","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores a series of newspaper articles from 1908, describing Miss C. – a Copenhagen woman who, apparently, hosted carnal orgies in which she ‘converted’ young women into sapphism. While most historical sources only hint at female same-sex relationships or describe women's romantic (platonic) feelings for one another, these articles are explicit in their descriptions of lust and carnal sex. For this reason, they add nuance to our historical perceptions of (Western) female same-sex relations during the turn of the twentieth century. Methodologically, I use my renovation of a Copenhagen flat as an entry point into the articles. I see both projects (the renovation and the analysis) through the lens of a palimpsest, understanding the surface to hide deeper layers of meaning. Thus, the renovation serves as an allegory of my search for knowledge about Miss C. and her lovers, which I attempt to uncover by engaging in reparative readings. As I develop the analysis, I reflect upon my longing to find historical characters who mirror my own identity, as well as the challenge faced by historians researching sexuality in their attempts to write about the past in ways that respect subjects without castrating them or depriving them of agency.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 1","pages":"267-281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12730","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127097870","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 assertion of reproductive and social control in mid-twentieth-century US transgender medicine","authors":"Stef M. Shuster","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12727","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12727","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on archival materials from the Kinsey Institute, including letters of correspondence between medical professionals and transgender people during the 1950s–1970s, this article demonstrates how scientific and medical communities selectively employed old and new eugenics in their work with trans patients seeking hormonal and/or surgical interventions. Old eugenics helped providers control trans people's reproduction and family formations. New eugenics helped providers maintain social control over trans people's lives and solidify an ‘ideal’ patient who demonstrated their ‘value’ by upholding social fitness standards. This work contributes to histories of trans medicine by analysing this era through the lens of eugenics and expanding understandings of how medical and scientific communities sought to assert reproductive and social control over trans people.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 1","pages":"208-223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12727","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121036168","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":"Against anticipation, or, camp reading as reparative to the trans feminine past: A microhistory in Nazi-Era Vienna","authors":"Zavier Nunn","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12721","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12721","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Whether trans people – especially trans women – were persecuted by the Nazi regime remains a contested yet under-researched topic. But the wider political backdrop (including the culture wars and Holocaust memorialisation practices) steers this historical question with a monolithic value: victimisation. This hyper-focus on victimisation is underpinned by a ‘paranoia’ that pre-empts tragic historical narratives. Trans histories that do not neatly map onto tragic narration are therefore deemed unthinkable and remain absent from the nascent literature. In a move against paranoid anticipation, this article puts forward an argument for a ‘Camp reading’ practice that embraces ‘insincere’ and ironic material to recalibrate which trans stories are deigned to be given a history. The microhistory of Bella P. in Nazi-era Vienna acts as a case study in divesting from the politics of victimhood, that challenges the historian's anticipatory impulses, offering the trans feminine past under National Socialism a ‘reparative’ entry into the historical canon on its own terms.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"36 1","pages":"191-207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12721","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132231030","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":"‘We Thought We were the Only Lesbians in the World’: 1971 Vancouver and the Rise of Lesbian and Transnational Feminist Identities Between Canada and the USA","authors":"Candice Klein","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12726","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12726","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Lesbian feminists in Vancouver cite the 1971 Vancouver Indochinese Women's Conference (VIWC) as a critical moment in the formation of solidarity networks and community building. In the months leading up to, and during the 1971 VIWC, lesbians forged long-lasting connections with one another across regional and international borders. As a result of these efforts, these early lesbian feminists developed meaningful lesbian support networks that would continue for over fifty years. The VIWC was a watershed event for lesbians across the North American West.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"37 1","pages":"382-394"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134107569","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":"Promoting Women's Rights, Hiding the Empire: Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux, an Imperialist Woman at the United Nations","authors":"Anna Nasser","doi":"10.1111/1468-0424.12722","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-0424.12722","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This contribution examines the role of Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux, the French representative in the UN Commission on the Status of Women between 1948 and 1953. By focusing on Lefaucheux's activism and connection with the French government, this article intends to analyse how French post-imperial policy carried out by reformist women's organisations pursued the expansion of women's and human rights whilst supporting the empire. Using a range of archival sources and the Commission's reports, this work argues that the role of reformist imperial women and organisations was crucial in influencing the Commission which was both a place of contestation and protection of the gendered and colonial order.</p>","PeriodicalId":46382,"journal":{"name":"Gender and History","volume":"35 3","pages":"795-810"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-0424.12722","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46593120","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}