Gender History Across Epistemologies

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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 approachesThe volume demonstrates that recent approaches to gender history suggest surprising crossovers and even the discovery of common groundsContent: Chapter 0 Introduction: Gender History Across Epistemologies (pages 1–19): Donna R. Gabaccia and Mary Jo MaynesChapter 1 Master Narratives and the Wall Painting of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii (pages 20–60): Beth Severy?HovenChapter 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?MartinChapter 3 Public Motherhood in West Africa as Theory and Practice (pages 80–96): Lorelle SemleyChapter 4 Profiling the Female Emigrant: A Method of Linguistic Inquiry for Examining Correspondence Collections (pages 97–126): Emma MoretonChapter 5 Beyond Constructivism?: Gender, Medicine and the Early History of Sperm Analysis, Germany 1870–1900 (pages 127–156): Christina BenninghausChapter 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 DampierChapter 7 Gender without Groups: Confession, Resistance and Selfhood in the Colonial Archive (pages 181–197): Christopher J. LeeChapter 8 The Power of Renewable Resources: Orlando's Tactical Engagement with the Law of Intestacy (pages 198–214): Jamie McdanielChapter 9 The Politics of Gender Concepts in Genetics and Hormone Research in Germany, 1900–1940 (pages 215–234): Helga SatzingerChapter 10 The Language of Gender in Lover's Correspondence, 1946–1949 (pages 235–245): Sonia CancianChapter 11 Gender?Bending in El Teatro Campesino (1968–1980): A Mestiza Epistemology of Performance (pages 246–261): Meredith HellerChapter 12 Changing Paradigms in Migration Studies: From Men to Women to Gender (pages 262–278): Nancy L. GreenChapter 13 Reconsidering Categories of Analysis: Possibilities for Feminist Studies of Conflict (pages 279–304): Shirin SaeidiChapter 14 An Epistemology of Collusion: Hijras, Kothis and the Historical (Dis) Continuity of Gender/Sexual Identities in Eastern India (pages 305–329): Aniruddha Dutta