Ebook: Gender History Across Epistemologies

Gender History Across Epistemologies offers broad range of innovative approaches to gender history. The essays reveal how historians of gender are crossing boundaries - disciplinary, methodological, and national - to explore new opportunities for viewing gender as a category of historical analysis.

• Essays present epistemological and theoretical debates central in gender history over the past two decades
• Contributions within this volume to the work on gender history are approached from a wide range of disciplinary locations and approaches
• The volume demonstrates that recent approaches to gender history suggest surprising crossovers and even the discovery of common grounds

Content:
Chapter 0 Introduction: Gender History Across Epistemologies (pages 1–19): Donna R. Gabaccia and Mary Jo Maynes
Chapter 1 Master Narratives and the Wall Painting of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii (pages 20–60): Beth Severy?Hoven
Chapter 2 ‘More Beautiful Than Words & Pencil Can Express': Barbara Bodichon's Artistic Career at the Interface of Her Epistolary and Visual Self Projections (pages 61–79): Meritxell Simon?Martin
Chapter 3 Public Motherhood in West Africa as Theory and Practice (pages 80–96): Lorelle Semley
Chapter 4 Profiling the Female Emigrant: A Method of Linguistic Inquiry for Examining Correspondence Collections (pages 97–126): Emma Moreton
Chapter 5 Beyond Constructivism?: Gender, Medicine and the Early History of Sperm Analysis, Germany 1870–1900 (pages 127–156): Christina Benninghaus
Chapter 6 ‘I Just Express My Views & Leave Them to Work': Olive Schreiner as a Feminist Protagonist in a Masculine Political Landscape with Figures (pages 157–180): Liz Stanley and Helen Dampier
Chapter 7 Gender without Groups: Confession, Resistance and Selfhood in the Colonial Archive (pages 181–197): Christopher J. Lee
Chapter 8 The Power of Renewable Resources: Orlando's Tactical Engagement with the Law of Intestacy (pages 198–214): Jamie Mcdaniel
Chapter 9 The Politics of Gender Concepts in Genetics and Hormone Research in Germany, 1900–1940 (pages 215–234): Helga Satzinger
Chapter 10 The Language of Gender in Lover's Correspondence, 1946–1949 (pages 235–245): Sonia Cancian
Chapter 11 Gender?Bending in El Teatro Campesino (1968–1980): A Mestiza Epistemology of Performance (pages 246–261): Meredith Heller
Chapter 12 Changing Paradigms in Migration Studies: From Men to Women to Gender (pages 262–278): Nancy L. Green
Chapter 13 Reconsidering Categories of Analysis: Possibilities for Feminist Studies of Conflict (pages 279–304): Shirin Saeidi
Chapter 14 An Epistemology of Collusion: Hijras, Kothis and the Historical (Dis) Continuity of Gender/Sexual Identities in Eastern India (pages 305–329): Aniruddha Dutta