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Gender history across epistemologies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Mary Jo Maynes
| Gender history across epistemologies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Mary Jo Maynes |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.309 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GabacciaDonna R. <1949->
MaynesMary Jo |
| Collana | Gender and history special issue book series |
| Soggetto topico |
Sex role - History
Gender identity - History Women - Identity - History Women - History |
| ISBN |
1-118-50820-3
1-118-50823-8 1-299-15947-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Gender History Across Epistemologies; CONTENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction: Gender History Across Epistemologies; 1 Master Narratives and the Wall Painting of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii; The house and its owners; Slavery and freedom; The House of the Vettii in scholarship; Houses, painting, myth and gender; Case study: ancient slavery, sexuality and the House of the Vettii; The master gaze; Masochism; Conclusions and implications; Notes
2 'More Beautiful than Words & Pencil Can Express': Barbara Bodichon's Artistic Career at the Interface of her Epistolary and Visual Self ProjectionsBodichon's personal papers: archival contingencies; Bodichon's letters and paintings: a hybrid performative self-constitution; Bodichon's artistic identity at the intersection of her epistolary and visual self-projections; Bodichon's unresolved artistic self and the production of historical knowledge; Notes; 3 Public Motherhood in West Africa as Theory and Practice; Notes 4 Profiling the Female Emigrant: A Method of Linguistic Inquiry for Examining Correspondence CollectionsIntroduction; What is a corpus?; Background remarks; The LOUGH corpus; The starting point - simple frequency data; Words and frequencies; Words in context: n-grams and clusters; From quantitative to qualitative: concordance lines; Discussion and conclusions; Notes; 5 Beyond Constructivism?: Gender, Medicine and the Early History of Sperm Analysis, Germany 1870-1900; Social constructivism, gender history and the one-sex/two-sex narrative 'Cherchez l'homme' - male sterility and the making of sperm testing, 1860-1890Collecting sperm, compromising morals and compiling statistics (loop 1); Gynaecologists as andrologists (loop 2); Patients (loop 3); Conclusion; Notes; 6 'I Just Express My Views & Leave Them to Work': Olive Schreiner as a Feminist Protagonist in a Masculine Political Landscape with Figures; Introduction; Olive Schreiner's 'characteristic shrewdness' - Walker's case for influence; 'Always give your enemies what they don't want!' - marks upon the text Doing things with letters: the performative character of Schreiner's epistolary activities and influenceA feminist protagonist in a masculine political landscape: on influence and separate spheres; Notes; 7 Gender without Groups: Confession, Resistance and Selfhood in the Colonial Archive; Between groups and individuals - perils of distraction in southern Africa; Adaima's story - the complete document; Adaima's story - text, context and ephemeral knowledge; Conclusions; Notes; 8 The Power of Renewable Resources: Orlando's Tactical Engagement with the Law of Intestacy; Notes 9 The Politics of Gender Concepts in Genetics and Hormone Research in Germany, 1900-1940 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910138860803321 |
| Chichester, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Gender history across epistemologies / / edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Mary Jo Maynes
| Gender history across epistemologies / / edited by Donna R. Gabaccia and Mary Jo Maynes |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.309 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GabacciaDonna R. <1949->
MaynesMary Jo |
| Collana | Gender and history special issue book series |
| Soggetto topico |
Sex role - History
Gender identity - History Women - Identity - History Women - History |
| ISBN |
1-118-50820-3
1-118-50823-8 1-299-15947-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Gender History Across Epistemologies; CONTENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction: Gender History Across Epistemologies; 1 Master Narratives and the Wall Painting of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii; The house and its owners; Slavery and freedom; The House of the Vettii in scholarship; Houses, painting, myth and gender; Case study: ancient slavery, sexuality and the House of the Vettii; The master gaze; Masochism; Conclusions and implications; Notes
2 'More Beautiful than Words & Pencil Can Express': Barbara Bodichon's Artistic Career at the Interface of her Epistolary and Visual Self ProjectionsBodichon's personal papers: archival contingencies; Bodichon's letters and paintings: a hybrid performative self-constitution; Bodichon's artistic identity at the intersection of her epistolary and visual self-projections; Bodichon's unresolved artistic self and the production of historical knowledge; Notes; 3 Public Motherhood in West Africa as Theory and Practice; Notes 4 Profiling the Female Emigrant: A Method of Linguistic Inquiry for Examining Correspondence CollectionsIntroduction; What is a corpus?; Background remarks; The LOUGH corpus; The starting point - simple frequency data; Words and frequencies; Words in context: n-grams and clusters; From quantitative to qualitative: concordance lines; Discussion and conclusions; Notes; 5 Beyond Constructivism?: Gender, Medicine and the Early History of Sperm Analysis, Germany 1870-1900; Social constructivism, gender history and the one-sex/two-sex narrative 'Cherchez l'homme' - male sterility and the making of sperm testing, 1860-1890Collecting sperm, compromising morals and compiling statistics (loop 1); Gynaecologists as andrologists (loop 2); Patients (loop 3); Conclusion; Notes; 6 'I Just Express My Views & Leave Them to Work': Olive Schreiner as a Feminist Protagonist in a Masculine Political Landscape with Figures; Introduction; Olive Schreiner's 'characteristic shrewdness' - Walker's case for influence; 'Always give your enemies what they don't want!' - marks upon the text Doing things with letters: the performative character of Schreiner's epistolary activities and influenceA feminist protagonist in a masculine political landscape: on influence and separate spheres; Notes; 7 Gender without Groups: Confession, Resistance and Selfhood in the Colonial Archive; Between groups and individuals - perils of distraction in southern Africa; Adaima's story - the complete document; Adaima's story - text, context and ephemeral knowledge; Conclusions; Notes; 8 The Power of Renewable Resources: Orlando's Tactical Engagement with the Law of Intestacy; Notes 9 The Politics of Gender Concepts in Genetics and Hormone Research in Germany, 1900-1940 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822624303321 |
| Chichester, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
