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Editorial Note: On Becoming Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Jennifer J. Davis, Sandie Holguín
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editorial Note: On Becoming Jennifer J. Davis and Sandie Holguín The mechanisms which initiate, perpetuate, or challenge gender norms have often taken center stage in the scholarly inquiries that historians of women and gender relations have written. When Simone de Beauvoir observed that “one is not born, but becomes, a woman,” she drew
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Trans*Itions: The Work of Susan Stryker: An Introduction and Comment Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Leisa Meyer
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Trans*Itions: The Work of Susan StrykerAn Introduction and Comment Leisa Meyer (bio) At 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 3rd, 2023, an expansive session organized to both honor Susan Stryker and recognize the significance of her scholarship and activism to feminist history was held at the triennial Berkshire Conference on Women, Genders, and
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From the Queer Margins: Susan Stryker's Contribution to Feminist History Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Marta V. Vicente
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: From the Queer Margins: Susan Stryker’s Contribution to Feminist History Marta V. Vicente (bio) Of the different angles to approach Susan Stryker’s contribution to feminist history, I would like to highlight her ability to create feminist spaces from the queer margins that rethink the category of woman. Stryker’s work has identified spaces
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Feminist History Seeks Evil Twins and Troubling Monsters for Post-Casual Encounters: Reflecting on the Work of Susan Stryker Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Finn Enke
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Feminist History Seeks Evil Twins and Troubling Monsters for Post-Casual Encounters: Reflecting on the Work of Susan Stryker Finn Enke (bio) In the last two decades, feminist history has become increasingly infused with trans scholarship, methods and theory. These transformations may still be met with ongoing transphobic reluctance among
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Historian. Theorist. Activist. Visionary. Institution Builder. Total Badass Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Jen Manion
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Historian. Theorist. Activist. Visionary. Institution Builder. Total Badass Jen Manion (bio) Susan Stryker has created an entire scholarly field not only by producing pathbreaking, interdisciplinary scholarship in every imaginable genre but by conceptualizing, collaborating, and manifesting special issues, foundational texts, an actual
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Anti-Trans (and Intersex) Laws and the Harms of Protecting the Binary Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Elizabeth Reis
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Anti-Trans (and Intersex) Laws and the Harms of Protecting the Binary Elizabeth Reis (bio) In looking through my old correspondence with Susan Stryker, I found a message where she had accidentally emailed everyone in her Yahoo contacts (Yahoo?) that she had started a Facebook page and was requesting friends. I wrote her back saying, I
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Some Conjectures on Trans Studies and the Future of Modular Forms Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Matt Richardson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Some Conjectures on Trans Studies and the Future of Modular Forms Matt Richardson (bio) In 2006, the mathematician Lisa Clay joined the illustrious list of scholars who have been members of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. To give you a sense of this accomplishment in her field, Albert Einstein, André Weil, John
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Response Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Susan Stryker
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Response Susan Stryker (bio) I’d like to thank Leisa Meyer beyond what mere words can express for offering to organize a roundtable at the 2023 Big Berks, commemorating my contributions to the field of women’s history through my work in trans studies. And I’d like to extend those thanks not just to her but to my other colleagues and dear
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Beer, "Waste," and One Enslaved Women's Currency in the Lower Mississippi Valley Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Jessica Blake
Abstract: This article examines the life of Marton, an enslaved woman living in eighteenth-century Louisiana. Through her biography, this article uncovers how women of African descent developed marketplaces using the leftovers of the plantation economy. Marton produced beer from scavenged rice. She sold her beer so successfully that enslavers eventually allowed her to sell it outside of the plantation
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Challenging Feminist Stereotypes: Nawal El Saadawi's Creation of Transnational Solidarity at the United Nations Mid-Decade Conference Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Jessica M. Frazier
Abstract: Nawal El Saadawi, an advocate for women’s rights in the Arab World, quickly gained international attention at the United Nations’ 1980 Second World Conference on Women in Copenhagen thanks to her tackling of taboo topics, such as women’s lives in Palestine. Arguing that the conflict with Israel influenced women’s rights in the region and that therefore the Israeli-Palestinian conflict deserved
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Transnational Community Building through Women and Girls: Constructing an Intergenerational Girls' Mission School Network Across Borders in 1920s and 1930s Japan Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Alexandria Dugal
Abstract: This article illuminates how and why students, graduates, and educators of the Tōyō Eiwa Jogakkō girls’ mission school network developed a transnational community in 1920s and 1930s Japan. It reveals the methods through which Japanese and Western women and girls created links to the wider world across nations and empires to build connections and knowledge in a turbulent and nationalistic
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Women and Rural Protest in Colonial Eastern Nigeria: The 1929 Women's Revolt (Ogu Umunwanyi) Reexamined Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Chima J. Korieh, Elizabeth Onogwu
Abstract: This article explores the economic roots of the 1929 Women’s War in colonial Nigeria. It analyzes the dynamics of women’s social mobilization and its link to the imposition of British indirect rule and the economic crisis of the Great Depression. It relates how the Great Depression, colonial economic structure and organization, political culture, and gender ideology provide a more complex
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"Fed Up": A Clerical Workers' Manifesto Sparks a Comparable-Worth Campaign at the University of California at Berkeley, 1970–1974 Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Jennifer L. Pierce
Abstract: In a union campaign that began in 1970 and ended in 1974, the University of California at Berkeley’s American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1695’s secretaries published a clerical workers’ manifesto, participated in writing a formal affirmative action report with the librarian’s union, and filed a mass grievance against sex discrimination signed by three
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Affective Power: Biographies on Sex and Marriage Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Benedetta Carnaghi
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Affective Power: Biographies on Sex and Marriage Benedetta Carnaghi (bio) Victoria de Grazia. The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. 518 pp. ISBN 9780674271067 (pb.); 9780674245471 (ebook). Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez, Empire’s Mistress
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Rewriting the Faithful Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Sally Dwyer-McNulty
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Rewriting the Faithful Sally Dwyer-McNulty (bio) Jenny Wiley Legath. Sanctified Sisters: A History of Protestant Deaconesses. New York: New York University Press, 2019. 255 pp. ISBN 9781479860630 (cl); 9781479846528 (ebook). Mary J. Henold. The Laywoman Project: Remaking Catholic Womanhood in the Vatican II Era. Chapel Hill: University
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Contributors Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-29
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Jessica Blake is assistant professor of history in the Department of History at Louisiana State University. Funding for this research came from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her other research has appeared in Early American Studies (2021). She is completing a monograph on the contributions of tradeswomen of African
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Editorial Note: Lives Diminished and Lives Unbounded Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Sandie Holguín, Jennifer J. Davis
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Editorial NoteLives Diminished and Lives Unbounded Sandie Holguín and Jennifer J. Davis In this issue of the JWH, our authors contend with issues of visibility. They address archival silences and the women who disrupt that silence, archival violence, and those who buckle against or break free from constraints. They profile leaders of political
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Women and War: Female Spies and Messengers in the Late-Medieval Low Countries Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Jelle Haemers
Abstract: This contribution shows that women played influential roles in medieval warfare not as soldiers on the battlefield but as key figures in communication networks. Two crucial aspects in times of military crisis are gathering information about the enemy and communication between allies. Existing historiography of medieval espionage usually attributes such tasks to men. This article demonstrates
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Agnes the Bathkeeper and Anna of Mindelheim: Rehumanizing Women from The Hammer of Witches Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Lindsay Starkey
Abstract: This article reconstructs the lives of Agnes the Bathkeeper and Anna of Mindelheim, who exemplified how women become witches and how witches do magic in the demonological treatise, The Hammer of Witches (1486). It does so based both on this demonological treatise and archival documents, reading them "against the bias grain" in an effort to bring Agnes and Anna some epistemic justice. In addition
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Josephine Butler in Paris: Sex and Race in the Early Campaign to Abolish Regulated Prostitution, 1870–1880 Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Andrew Israel Ross
Abstract: During the 1870s, Josephine Butler brought her campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts to Paris, the birthplace of regulated prostitution. While in Paris, Butler and her allies refined their arguments against regulated prostitution using the Paris morals police as their primary example. As they did so, these activists came to increasingly radical conclusions about the danger of police
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Fair Chances: World's Fairs and American Woman Suffrage Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Tracey Jean Boisseau
Abstract: For over sixty years, American pro-suffrage women consistently viewed world's fairs as the single most important and indispensable of cultural venues for their suffrage work. Despite being actively excluded from fair administrations, their unsanctioned interventions at expositions permitted suffragists to attach women's right to the franchise to the nationalist celebrations of modernity and
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Instrumental Femininity: The Tokyo Women's Higher Normal School and the Shaping of Social and Gender Hierarchies in Modern Japan Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Jamyung Choi
Abstract: How can we assess the impact of the ideology of female domesticity on women's higher education and professional opportunities? This article examines this question through the lens of Tokyo Women's Higher Normal School, Japan's first tertiary educational institution for women. Graduates of this school established for the propagation of gender ideology joined a respectable profession, that
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Muslim Women and Educational Reform in the Early-Twentieth-Century Southern Caucasus: Urbanization and Heterosocialization at the Dawn of Revolution Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Kelsey Rice
Abstract: In 1901 the Empress Alexandra Russian Muslim Boarding School for Girls, better known as Taghiyev's Girls' School for the industrialist who founded it, opened in Baku to celebration in the press and to protests in the street. Its opening initiated a period of expanded educational opportunities for Muslim girls in the southern Caucasus and increased the visibility and social and political influence
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New Histories of Global Feminism Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Francisca De Haan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: New Histories of Global Feminism Francisca De Haan (bio) Lucy Delap. Feminisms: A Global History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 256 pp. ISBN 9780226754093 (cl.); 9780226754123 (ebook). Mona M. Siegel. Peace on Our Terms: The Global Battle for Women's Rights After the First World War. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020
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Engendering the Left: Anarchism in Settler Colonial Territories Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Caroline Waldron
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Engendering the LeftAnarchism in Settler Colonial Territories Caroline Waldron (bio) Sonia Hernández. For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900–1938. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2021. 248 pp. ISBN 9780252044045 (cl.); 9780252086106 (pb.); 9780252052989 (ebook). Theresa Warburton. Other
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Editorial Note The Local and Global Implications of Everyday Transgressions Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Jennifer J. Davis, Sandie Holguín
Abstract: This issue opens with Bonnie G. Smith's reflection on the life and scholarship of the late Natalie Zemon Davis. Both scholars served on this Journal's Founding Board of Associate Editors and gave shape to the fields of women's history and gender history. Among her many honors, Professor Davis served as President of the American Historical Association and received the National Humanities Medal
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Following Women's Money: Population, Development, and Indo-American Birth Control Politics in the Mid-Twentieth Century Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Mytheli Sreenivas
Abstract: This article traces the history of a transnational birth control movement centered on India and the United States during the 1950s, a transitional decade that followed Indian independence from the British Empire and that witnessed growing US hegemony in a cold war world. I focus on one key philanthropic organization, the Watumull Foundation, and the activities of its leader, Ellen Jensen
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Cold War Sisterhood: The Women's Africa Committee, 1958–1968 Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Iris Berger
Abstract: During the late 1950s, prompted by the US State Department, an interracial group of national leaders of women's organizations in the United States formed the African Women's Committee to reach out to their African counterparts in the wake of successful independence movements throughout the continent. After consulting with numerous African women and leading experts on Africa, the committee
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Between Charity and Neoliberalism: The Campaign for Funding Women's Refuges in Australia, 1974–1985 Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Michelle Arrow
Abstract: Australia's first women's refuge was established in 1974, marking a crucial outgrowth of women's liberation activism that placed domestic violence on the public agenda. To maintain refuges, feminists seized opportunities presented by the progressive Gough Whitlam Labor government. This convergence between a reforming government and the women's movement meant that Australian feminist refuges
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What French Women Wore to the Resistance: Fashion, War, and Gender Transformation, 1940–1945 Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Mary Louise Roberts
Abstract: In studying French women resistors, scholars have largely fought the erasure of their contributions from the record. I revisit résistante stories as narratives about clothing that mark the specificity of female resistance as well as changes in gender identity. First, I explore how women weaponized their clothing. During the war they used their dresses, underwear, and jackets to hide Resistance
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The Intellectual World of Phillis Wheatley and the Politics of Genius Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Tamika Nunley
Abstract: This article examines the life and work of Phillis Wheatley and her interlocutors to consider how African-descended people conceptualized liberty and formed an intellectual community during the American Revolution. Her poetry and epistolary exchanges, shared with a range of acquaintances in the Atlantic World, reveal an intellectual universe that she created for herself and one that drew
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The Struggle for Equality and Religious Tolerance: Women's Presence and Leadership in Protestant Circles in Sixteenth-Century Spain Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 María Martín Gómez, Frances Luttikhuizen
Abstract: In 1559 two Protestant communities were discovered in Spain. A striking number of women—ordinary citizens, noblewomen, nuns—lived in those communities. Several played preeminent roles as teachers, preceptors, and feminist leaders who fought to defend their religious freedom and rights. This article aims to remove their names from oblivion, to describe the decisive role they played in Protestant
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The Genealogy of an Idea Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Lauren Jae Gutterman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Genealogy of an Idea Lauren Jae Gutterman (bio) Lillian Faderman. Woman: The American History of an Idea. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022. 571 pp. ISBN 9780300249903 (cl); 9780300271140 (pb.). Sandra Eder. How the Clinic Made Gender: A Medical History of a Transformative Idea. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022
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Reproducing Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Nina Kushner
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reproducing Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Europe Nina Kushner (bio) John Christopoulos. Abortion in Early Modern Italy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021. 368 pp. ISBN 9780674248090 (cl). Julie Hardwick. Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660–1789. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020
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Contributors Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-27
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Michelle Arrow is professor of modern history at Macquarie University. She is the author of three books: Upstaged: Australian Women Dramatists in the Limelight At Last (2002), Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia since 1945 (2009) and The Seventies: The Personal, the Political and the Making of Modern Australia
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Showcases of Empire, Epistemic Transformations, and the Contours of Resistance Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Sandie Holguín, Jennifer J. Davis
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Showcases of Empire, Epistemic Transformations, and the Contours of Resistance Sandie Holguín and Jennifer J. Davis This issue begins with two articles about archaeology and collecting, practices that have undergone scrutiny for imbrication in racist and imperialist ideologies. Museum curators in places like Philadelphia’s Mutter Museum
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"First in the Field": Fashioning the Singular Identity of Harriet Boyd Hawes, Groundbreaking American Archaeologist Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Jennifer Bowers
Abstract: American archaeologist Harriet Boyd Hawes was at the forefront of the discovery of the ancient Minoan civilization on Crete. Newspapers and periodicals on both sides of the Atlantic were fascinated with her excavation at Gournia, which they found particularly newsworthy because she was a woman. Boyd was not a passive recipient of the media’s portrayal, however, but actively developed her
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Collecting Antiquities and Networking as Feminist Activity at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: An Approach through Isabel F. Dodd (1857–1943) Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Agnès Garcia-Ventura
Abstract: Collecting was one of the mechanisms through which women empowered themselves at the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth. Through collecting they created networks with other women and established their presence in a public sphere from which they were habitually excluded because of their gender. In this article I flesh out these issues by focusing on the career
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Trans Visual Narratives: Representing Gender and Nature in Early Modern Europe Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Marta V. Vicente
Abstract This article studies the portraits of two gender-ambiguous individuals, the seventeenth-century Spanish soldier Antonio (née Catalina) de Erauso and the eighteenth-century French diplomat the Chevalier (Chevalière) d’Eon, as they offer a window into early modern debates on the representation of nature through its wonders. Making sense of the representations of Erauso and d’Eon requires viewing
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"Her Infant at Her Breast": Breastfeeding as Survival and Resistance in Colonial Haiti Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Karol Kovalovich Weaver
Abstract: This article analyzes published sources, archival records, and prints and paintings to show that, over the course of the eighteenth century, white colonists in Saint-Domingue attempted unsuccessfully to dehumanize enslaved persons by exploiting their breasts as sources of productive and reproductive labor and by disfiguring them by means of brands. Enslaved women and men resisted that control
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Woman's Era: A Catalyst for Literary Activism and the Social Evolution of Nineteenth-Century Black Clubwomen Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Stephanie Mahin, Lois A. Boynton
Abstract By the late nineteenth century, Black women used poetry, short stories, novels, and nonfiction to confront a white, patriarchal society and protest the lynchings of Black people and voting disenfranchisement of Black women. Woman’s Era became the first periodical written by and for Black women, which preserved a piece of intellectual strategy as elite Black clubwomen’s marketplace of ideas
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"The Caravan of Death": Women, Refugee Camps, and Family Separations in the US–Mexico Borderlands, 1910–1920 Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Verónica Castillo-Muñoz
Abstract: This article examines how Mexican border women negotiated war and family separations and gives new insights into the lives of women, families, and children who escaped the violence of the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920). As hundreds of thousands of Mexicans began crossing the border to the United States during the evolution, thousands of them, especially women and children, were detained and
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Black Women and the Black Freedom Struggle Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Dwonna Naomi Goldstone
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Black Women and the Black Freedom Struggle Dwonna Naomi Goldstone (bio) Murphy, Mary-Elizabeth B. Jim Crow Capital: Women and Black Freedom Struggles in Washington, D.C., 1920–1945. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 292 pp. ISBN 9781469646718 (cl.); 9781469646725 (pb.); 9781469646732 (ebook). Tuuri, Rebecca. Strategic
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Acknowledgment to Reviewers Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-29
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Acknowledgment to Reviewers The Journal of Women’s History editors and editorial staff thankfully acknowledge the generous contributions of the following scholars who reviewed manuscripts for the Journal, September 2, 2022–September 1, 2023. Catherine Adams Eugenia Afinoguenova Txetxu Aguado Nadine Akkerman Toygun Altintas Zehra Arat Nerea
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Beyond Translation Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Jennifer J. Davis, Sandie Holguín
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Beyond Translation Jennifer J. Davis and Sandie Holguín This issue of the Journal of Women’s History represents the partial fulfillment of a dream of generations of editors to promote access to scholarship across national, disciplinary, and linguistic barriers. In 1989, the editors of the first issue of the JWH published a “Statement of
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SPECIAL ISSUE: Debout & Déter / Standing Up & Determined: Black Women on the Move, Black Feminisms in French (Post)Imperial Contexts Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Jennifer Anne Boittin, Jacqueline Couti
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: SPECIAL ISSUE: Debout & Déter / Standing Up & Determined: Black Women on the Move, Black Feminisms in French (Post)Imperial Contexts Jennifer Anne Boittin (bio) and Jacqueline Couti (bio) In a roundtable, the transcription of which concludes this Special Issue, Bintou Dembélé, a dancer and choreographer, discusses her relationship to the
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The Gendered Consequences of Abolition and Citizenship on Nineteenth-Century Gorée Island Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Sarah J. Zimmerman
Abstract: In the spring of 1848, the French Second Republic abolished slavery and made citizens of most adult male residents in its overseas territories. Gorée Island (Senegal) became a French exclave, where free and freed women experienced socioeconomic and political decline. The patriarchal French state that “liberated” enslaved women and “enfranchised” former female slave owners simultaneously limited
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"The Ministry of Women's Affairs will not be Feminist": Jeanne Gervais and Gender Complementarity in Côte d'Ivoire Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Elizabeth Jacob
Abstract: This article traces the life and politics of Jeanne Gervais, the first Minister of Women’s Affairs in Côte d’Ivoire. Although she devoted her political career to projects for women’s empowerment, she consistently eschewed the term “feminist,” emphasizing instead the principle of gender complementarity that lay at the heart of her endeavors. Yet Gervais was far from conservative or out of
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Deprovincializing the Feminine/Feminist Cameroonian Nationalism of the 1950s: The UDEFEC and Pluriversal Black Feminism Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Rose Ndengue, S. C. Kaplan
Abstract: This article seeks to enrich the production of knowledge about Black feminisms by documenting the mobilizations of the Cameroonian nationalist activists of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women, or UDEFEC, in the middle of the 1950s. I will center the contributions of African women to movements for women’s equality. To this end, I consider the emancipatory speeches and practices elaborated
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Elegant Incursions: Fashion, Music, and Gender Dissidence in 1950s Brazzaville and Kinshasa Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Charlotte Grabli
Abstract: This article retraces the history of Congolese “elegance clubs,” women’s associations that worked in the realms of fashion and music in the 1950s. As they achieved huge visibility and social power in the twin cities of Brazzaville and Leopoldville (today Kinshasa), elegance clubs broadened women’s access to the city while carving out spaces for gender dissidence. This article explores their
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The Immigrants of BUMIDOM and Their Resistance to Employment Assignments Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Nora Eguienta, Sylvain Pattieu, S. C. Kaplan
Abstract: The Bureau pour le développement des migrations dans les départements d’outre-mer (Office for the Development of Immigration in the Overseas Departments of France, or BUMIDOM), created by France in 1963, oversaw the immigration of some two hundred thousand people from the Overseas Departments, about a third of whom were women, to metropolitan France between 1963 and 1982. These immigrants
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Contexts and Spaces of Intersectionality: The Black Feminism and Internationalism of Lydie Dooh-Bunya, 1970–1990 Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Pamela Ohene-Nyako, S. C. Kaplan
Abstract: This article retraces the local and transnational ideas and activism of Lydie Dooh-Bunya, a French novelist, journalist, and activist from Cameroon. Its objective is to understand how Dooh-Bunya’s life experiences as well as the sociopolitical, intellectual, and activist contexts to which she had access contributed to the articulation and practice of a specific form of feminism at the intersection
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Interview of Michèle Magema, Mixed-media Artist Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Jacqueline Couti, Michèle Magema
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Interview of Michèle Magema, Mixed-media Artist Jacqueline Couti (bio) and Michèle Magema (bio) Jaqueline Couti (JC): Looking at your work, I was like, “Wow, yes, there are other ways of thinking about history, of thinking about memory in a theoretical fashion that isn’t anchored in a dialectical European tradition or the Western academic
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Roundtable on Women's Traversing Paths: Forms of Political Engagement and Production of Knowledge Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Jocelyne Béroard, Jacqueline Couti, Bintou Dembélé, Joëlle Kapompole, Rose Ndengue, Fania Noël
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Roundtable on Women’s Traversing Paths: Forms of Political Engagement and Production of Knowledge Jocelyne Béroard (bio), Jacqueline Couti (bio), Bintou Dembélé (bio), Joëlle Kapompole (bio), Rose Ndengue (bio), and Fania Noël (bio) Rose Ndengue: I am Rose Ndengue, temporary research associate at the University of Rouen. Two and a half
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Virtues, Violence, and Passion of the Puritans Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Elizabeth Bouldin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Virtues, Violence, and Passion of the Puritans Elizabeth Bouldin (bio) Monica D. Fitzgerald. Puritans Behaving Badly: Gender, Punishment, and Religion in Early America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 177 pp. ISBN 9781108478786 (cl.); 9781108778817 (ebook). Emily C. K. Romeo. The Virtuous and Violent Women of Seventeenth-Century
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Slavery's Handmaidens: Gender, Sex, and Reproduction in the Black Atlantic Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Kathleen M. Brown
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Slavery’s Handmaidens: Gender, Sex, and Reproduction in the Black Atlantic Kathleen M. Brown (bio) Sophie White. Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2019. 352 pp. ISBN 9781469654041 (cl.); 9781469666266 (pb.); 9781469654058 (ebook). Ashley M. Williard
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Contributors Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-28
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Contributors Jocelyne Béroard is an ambassador of French Antillean culture and a well-known and well-loved Martinican singer and songwriter who has traveled the world for forty years. Dedicated to healing and uplifting anyone listening to her songs while offering them a piece of happiness, she has also published her memoirs, Loin de lamer
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Economic Autonomy, Networks, and Co-optation Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Sandie Holguín, Jennifer J. Davis
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Economic Autonomy, Networks, and Co-optation Sandie Holguín and Jennifer J. Davis The Journal’s editors invite readers to consider three themes that undergird the articles in this issue: economic autonomy, networks, and state co-optation of women’s liberation movements. The articles traverse levels of scale from the individual and community
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What's in a First Name? The Correlation of Personal Identity with Economic Autonomy in Medieval Flanders Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Ellen E. Kittell
Abstract: A comparison of late-fourteenth-century mortmain payments from Courtrai (a small commercial city) with those from Tielt (a nearby rural community) in the county of Flanders reveals that the bailiff of Courtrai routinely identified women using a personal name, while the bailiff of Tielt slotted them, unnamed, into the relational categories of wife, widow, and daughter. This article argues
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Martha Parker's Trials: Women's Networks in the East India Company Trade Journal of Women's History (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-07 Aske Laursen Brock
Abstract: This article examines how an entrepreneurial woman, Martha Parker, worked a private trade network within a globalizing world by using her connections and the East India Company’s structure to her advantage. Rather than viewing women’s independent commercial activity as a reaction to patriarchal institutions, this article pays attention to the gendered agentic expectations of early modern