Gender History Research Articles

Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530–1700: Suppression, Migration, and Reintegration by Bronagh Ann McShane (review)

Reviewed by: Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530–1700: Suppression, Migration, and Reintegration by Bronagh Ann McShane James E. Kelly Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530–1700: Suppression, Migration, and Reintegration. By Bronagh Ann McShane. (Woodbridge: Boydell Press 2022. Pp. xv, 324. $115.00. ISBN: 9781783277308.) Long considered nearly impossible due to the disparate nature of the sources, Bronagh Ann McShane has produced the first overarching study of Irish women associated with religious orders in the early modern period. Gathering evidence from mentions scattered throughout a range of materials, McShane successfully traces various forms of Irish female religious commitment from the dissolution of religious houses in the 1530s and 1540s to the end of the seventeenth century, including both those at home and in mainland Europe. Her opening two chapters consider the suppression and survival of female religious life during the Henrician dissolution of the monasteries. McShane judges the reformation in Ireland to have been far less systematic than that in England, though, unlike their male equivalents, it did manage to crush institutional expressions of female religious life. Having to rely on some conjecture to draw conclusions about what happened to the women after their convents were dissolved, McShane uncovers evidence of different types of religious life being adopted, including as tertiaries affiliated to male mendicant orders, and the short-lived but pioneering Catholic Reformation experiment that was the Mná Bochta (Poor Women), who worked alongside the small Jesuit mission in an active apostolate. Fairly heavy on detailed financial records and Irish family history, these two chapters are followed by a shift in focus to look at migration, and those women who went abroad to pursue their vocations. Really hitting her stride, McShane tracks several Irish women who made the journey to mainland Europe. Some entered local convents, though a number headed to English houses established in exile, especially the Poor Clares at Gravelines. Nevertheless, a Dominican convent was [End Page 405] founded for the Irish nation at Lisbon. Intriguingly, it seems to have been markedly different from the exile English convents; both enjoyed local support, though the Irish Dominican convent appears to have been wealthier than the majority of English ones, and was a popular destination for Portuguese nun recruits as much as it was for Irish women. The final section examines the return of professed female religious life to Ireland. The slightly more tolerant 1630s witnessed a cautious return, which flourished under the Catholic confederacy of the 1640s before being crushed during the Cromwellian wars. Following the restoration of the monarchy with Charles II in 1660, McShane outlines attempts at again fostering female religious life in the country that reached greater heights under the Catholic toleration that followed the accession of James II. However, the Glorious Revolution and the Williamite wars halted official advancement, McShane judging, though, that it was nowhere near as traumatic as the Cromwellian period, and female religious life continued in Ireland into the eighteenth century. Tracing down these stories across a variety of sources is an impressive achievement that should not be underestimated. At times, the book's shifting focus affects its wider definitive positioning, whether to go all out for Irish national history, the history of the Catholic Reformation, or gender history. There is also a question at the book's heart: as McShane acknowledges, the formation of Irish women religious in exile English convents was "pivotal" (p. 249); yet the question of why there was not an equivalent exile movement for Irish women religious is not answered. With far greater numbers of Catholic women in Ireland, why was it that the English conventual movement was so much bigger? That this book raises such a question is testament to McShane's convincing achievement. Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530–1700, fills an obvious gap in the scholarship and, proving that it can be done, should encourage others to work on early modern Irish women religious. James E. Kelly Durham University James E. Kelly Durham University Copyright © 2023 The Catholic University of America Press

Remains to Be Seen

AbstractThis article unspools the history of nylon as a commodity between two Black feminist cultural expressions, Senga Nengudi's R.S.V.P. series and Audre Lorde's Zami. The first popular petroleum-derived synthetic fiber, nylon was a crucial material in building what Dwight D. Eisenhower was to dub the “military-industrial complex.” Through readings of R.S.V.P. and Zami, the article traces the racial and gendered history of nylon as both a fashion commodity and a military resource. These readings demonstrate Black feminism's central relevance to US military imperialism, particularly in Asia and the Pacific, as well as imperialism's impacts on Black femininity during the Cold War. This article argues that Black feminist aesthetics, such as those Nengudi and Lorde employ, restores the context of commodities like nylons, revealing the centrality of Black women's productive and reproductive labor to US empire. Most important, as R.S.V.P. and Zami restore context, they also generate a system of value in opposition to racial capitalism that does not depend on violence against Black women.

“Both Your Sexes”: A Non-Binary Approach to Gender History, Trans Studies and the Making of the Self in Modern Britain

Abstract Using the life-writing of historian and playwright Muriel St. Clare Byrne (1895-1983), this article develops the concept of a non-binary historical methodology. It argues that historians should take gender as a historically contingent category to allow alternative logics of embodiment, selfhood, desire, and relationality to be more clearly seen. Drawing on trans studies, the article situates Byrne within contemporary conversations about universal bi-sexuality within sexology and psychoanalysis. Her rewriting of the psychosexual model in her memoir, which underwrote a claim to ‘both her sexes’, represents one of the paths foreclosed by the mid-century turn to the gender/sex/sexuality model.

Life and Society in the Early Spanish Caribbean: The Greater Antilles, 1493–1550

The sixteenth-century Caribbean is often overshadowed in histories of colonial Spanish America. After Christopher Columbus, Spaniards spilled from the Caribbean into Mexico and Peru. They left behind empty islands that would patiently await plantation slavery, imperial competition, and belated significance a century later. Or so the history of the Caribbean has sometimes been told. In contrast, Life and Society in the Early Spanish Caribbean: The Greater Antilles, 1493–1550 by Ida Altman argues that the region had enduring transatlantic importance as successive generations of European, Black, and Indigenous inhabitants created a distinctively Caribbean society. While threatened by disease and violence, the Spanish cities on the islands were sustained in the first half of the sixteenth century by a diversifying economy, multiethnic households, and the labor of enslaved or coerced men and women.Joining a recent burst of scholarship on the early Spanish Caribbean by Molly A. Warsh, David Wheat, Erin Woodruff Stone, and Gabriel de Avilez Rocha, Life and Society in the Early Spanish Caribbean stands apart for its focus on the Spanish settlers on the islands. Based on extensive archival research in administrative reports, ecclesiastical investigations, and personal correspondence, the book creates a rich mosaic of fragmentary lives and glimpsed relationships. The book devotes chapters to the initial European invasion of the islands, the destabilizing presence of death and disease, the political and legal administration of the islands, the arrival of the Catholic Church, and the transitional changes that Caribbean society underwent in the middle of the sixteenth century.The final chapter, concerning the role of women in Caribbean society, is particularly compelling as it traces the varied biographies of Spanish women on the islands alongside the faintly documented Indigenous and Black women who often lived in the same households. Altman analyzes the myriad roles played by the region's women, ranging from the powerful to the powerless. Some Spanish women exercised great political and social influence on the islands. Yet the lives of other women offer a counterpoint of difficulty, suffering, and oppression. This attention to the experiences of Caribbean women is not limited to the final chapter and appears throughout the book. For example, the lists of laborers for one estate on Puerto Rico reveal a growing proportion of elderly Indigenous women as other laborers apparently either died or fled the estate.The book simultaneously interweaves historical details from the four main islands of the Greater Antilles (Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Jamaica) while nodding to their local distinctions. As a work of social history, the book excavates a profusion of named individuals, and a few emerge as vivid characters in their own right. One such figure is the priest Álvaro de Castro, who appears in nearly every chapter and who stands out for his ceaseless energy, commercial entanglements, untrammeled sexual relations, and wild eruptions of violence. He enjoyed a long and successful career in the Caribbean church. Altman describes Castro as emblematic of his society's “distinctive juncture of law, the church, criminality, and economic opportunism” (p. 206).Life and Society in the Early Spanish Caribbean makes a pointed case for the complexity of the region's social relations. However, as Altman notes repeatedly, the documentary sources focus on Spanish experiences, and it is undeniably difficult to locate Black and Indigenous people within this lopsided archive. A reader skimming the book might miss the many places in which Black and Indigenous people do appear in the narrative. The book is laudably rigorous in avoiding speculation or overinterpretation in its use of archival evidence, and it describes regular contact between different segments of society without embellishment. In many ways, this approach captures the mundane and quotidian nature of cross-cultural relations for the period. Yet this approach may limit the book's utility to readers looking specifically for Black and Indigenous histories of the Caribbean. A careful reader will find many elements of those histories in this book, but they are subordinate to the histories of people who directly produced, signed, or testified within the sources: Spanish property owners, government officials, and church leaders. Whether the reader finds this narrow methodological approach to be a feature or a bug may depend on what they are hoping to find in a history of the Caribbean.Life and Society in the Early Spanish Caribbean is an impressive achievement in meticulous archival research that will bring the complexity of early Spanish society in the Americas to the attention of a wider audience. Historians of gender will value Altman's attention to the lives of Caribbean women, while historians of Spanish colonialism will appreciate the book's precise study of political and urban development in the Greater Antilles. Finally, the book will be an invaluable resource to Caribbean scholars looking to understand the history of the region in the early sixteenth century on a deeply human scale.

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The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South by Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh

Reviewed by: The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South by Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh Rachael L. Pasierowska The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South. By Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Pp. xii, 307. Paper, $27.95, ISBN 978-1-4696-6360-9; cloth, $95.00, ISBN 978-1-4696-6359-3.) The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South by Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh explores the spiritual lives of enslaved women in Georgia (and at times, in South Carolina) by adopting a gendered and embodied approach. Enslaved women are central actors in this study, which hinges on Wells-Oghoghomeh’s definitions of “double” and “triple consciousness” (p. 2). She argues that “most bondpeople experienced ‘double consciousness,’” which represented “the dialectic between the animate-object status,” which slaveholders assigned to an enslaved person’s identity, “and the subjectivity, or ‘inner life,’ the enslaved asserted over and against their objectification” (p. 2). What made enslaved women different is that they experienced a “triple consciousness.” In facing an “animate-object status,” enslaved women asserted not only their own personal subjectivity but also the subjectivity of their children. The Souls of Womenfolk employs a large array of sources, including Works Progress Administration interviews. Wells-Oghoghomeh outlines the primary strengths and weaknesses of this source base for readers unfamiliar with these narratives. But these sources enable her to research the role of religion among enslaved women more deeply. Wells-Oghoghomeh structures the book in six chapters that look at numerous aspects of enslaved women’s lives where religion was present and helped shape their communities’ beliefs and spiritual practices. The book opens with a very strong chapter that covers experiences of West Africans and their respective slaveries. The chapter argues that—prior to European enslavement—women had already been shaped by the sociopolitical world of West Africa. Subsequent chapters often reference enslaved women’s histories across West Africa before the Middle Passage, which helps readers unfamiliar with African studies to better contextualize enslaved persons’ experiences in Georgia. Yet the book fails to wholly recognize the large influx of enslaved persons from Central Africa and West Central Africa. Doing so would have allowed Wells-Oghoghomeh to provide a more rounded study of enslaved women’s experiences under bondage. Chapter 2 examines in greater detail the moral dimensions of women’s enslavement and focuses on topics such as birth, pregnancy, and infanticide/abortion. [End Page 143] An expanded assessment of perceptions regarding the birth of twins and how these views changed across African nations would have been appreciated here (indeed, the author could have contributed greatly to preexisting studies of this nature). The third chapter strays from the theme of spirituality to focus on “sexual ethics and social values” (p. 93). This reviewer would have been interested in even more about the role of baptism and about what women taught their children about such ethics and values. The final three chapters are strongest in presentation and structure. In these chapters, Wells-Oghoghomeh is more deeply focused on spirituality and how women broadened religious authority. The book does not fully address the great number of enslaved Africans who were Muslim. Indeed, large parts of West Africa had converted to Islam due to Arab missionaries and tradesmen traveling through the various regions. Wells-Oghoghomeh only briefly refers to enslaved Muslims—her title suggests “religious cultures” in the plural, yet in sum it focuses on Christianity. A more rounded book would have explored the lives of enslaved Muslims in detail, most notably on the Gullah/Geechee islands of Sapelo, Saint Helena, and Saint Simon’s. This inclusion would have made space for an analysis of different spiritual beliefs, for example, regarding death culture, seen in the number of burial trinkets, such as glass and broken pottery, found in graveyards there. The Souls of Womenfolk offers a deeper look at Christianity among enslaved persons in Georgia. The focus on womenfolk is the book’s greatest strength and makes it particularly appealing to gender historians of African American studies. Rachael L. Pasierowska University of Iowa Copyright © 2023 The...

Review: Masculinity, Identity, and Power Politics in the Age of Justinian: A Study of Procopius, by Michael Stewart

Book Review| February 01 2023 Review: Masculinity, Identity, and Power Politics in the Age of Justinian: A Study of Procopius, by Michael Stewart Michael Stewart, Masculinity, Identity, and Power Politics in the Age of Justinian: A Study of Procopius. Social Worlds of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. 246 pp. Color and black-and-white figures. ISBN: 9789462988231. €99. Robin Whelan Robin Whelan University of Liverpool Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Studies in Late Antiquity (2023) 7 (1): 162–166. https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2023.7.1.162 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Robin Whelan; Review: Masculinity, Identity, and Power Politics in the Age of Justinian: A Study of Procopius, by Michael Stewart. Studies in Late Antiquity 1 February 2023; 7 (1): 162–166. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/sla.2023.7.1.162 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentStudies in Late Antiquity Search The sixth-century historian Procopius of Caesarea has often been an author of first resort for students of gender in Late Antiquity. His violently misogynistic account of the empress Theodora in Anecdota (Secret History) is a classic recourse for modern historiography (and university survey courses). Yet, as Michael Stewart rightly notes, gendered discourse permeates Procopius’s various experiments in historiography in much more fundamental ways than a focus on “the carnal escapades and political misdeeds of puissant women” suggests (71). In this sense, Stewart’s book is best understood as the product of various central concerns in the wider discipline of gender history: not least, the effects of hegemonic masculinity (always anxious, often in crisis; cf. 25). Chapter 1 is less a standalone introduction than an overture sounding the book’s central theme: the role of gendered discourse in Procopius’s view of sixth-century Mediterranean politics and—in particular—the late fifth-century “loss” of (and... You do not currently have access to this content.

Working Mothers and "Machos Completos" - Gendered Modernity in Fertility Surveys in Colombia (1960s to 1970s)

Durante las décadas 1960 y 1970, médicos colombianos se mostraban preocupados ante el crecimiento demográfico – la denominada “bomba de población” – dirigiéndose a mujeres y hombres colombianos como sujetos que debían aprender a querer limitar el número de sus hijos. Las así llamadas “encuestas de fecundidad” se consideraban como clave para comprender las actitudes del pueblo colombiano frente al control de la natalidad. Además, los resultados de las encuestas fueron usados por los médicos para convencer a dirigentes políticos de que tenían que implementar programas de planificación familiar. Más allá de este uso estratégico, el presente artículo analiza las ideas sobre mujeres, hombres, sexualidad y relaciones maritales implicadas en las encuestas y la interpretación de sus resultados. De esta manera, el artículo sitúa este conocimiento médico-demográfico en un contexto más amplio de los debates acerca de desarrollo y modernización en el Colombia de la época. Los médicos podían ser aliados de las demandas feministas por el acceso de mujeres a oportunidades educativas y laborales. También abrieron espacios para hablar sobre la educación sexual y se unieron a la amplia coalición que proponía una paternidad responsable. Al mismo tiempo, los médicos-demógrafos planearon la distribución de métodos anticonceptivos considerando poco la salud de las mujeres que los usaban. Al mostrar estas tensiones, el artículo contribuye a la historia compleja de género, medicina y salud en América Latina.

Women Physicians and Their Careers: Athens—1900–1950: A Contribution to Understanding Women’s History

This article combines history of the family with women’s and gender history and the history of women’s education; it is based on an extensive range of archives and aims at highlighting the attitude of society and families towards women who wanted to attend University studies in the beginning of the 20th century. The matter of women’s university education is directly related to the emergence of the feminist movement in Greece. The strong preference of female university students for the exact sciences at that time was justified by contemporary scholars as a choice reflecting women’s nature. This article highlights the role played by family and social class background. To this effect, the life course of three ‘heroines’ is followed from their initial desire to undertake further studies to their participation in the social and cultural life of the capital of Greece, as a contribution to current literature on gender studies. Despite the limited number of cases discussed, we strongly believe that these women’s upbringing enhances our understanding of women’s scientific pursuits and their place in Athenian elite families.

How the Clinic Made Gender: The Medical History of a Transformative Idea by Sandra Eder

Gender is having a moment—still. Sandra Eder’s comprehensive and compassionate history of gender comes as the concept remains deeply embattled. On the one hand, feminist and queer critiques of gender binaries have opened up cultural space for myriad gender variations. Gender-bending, gender-fuck, and the ‘new androgyny’ have mainstreamed the dismantling of rigid identity categories. On the other hand, there is a furious backlash: physical violence and legislative attacks against LGBTQ+, and particularly transgender, communities; censorship of so-called gender theory in classrooms; and cruel harassment by anti-transgender activists of children’s hospitals who perform gender-affirming medical care. The gender wars, waged for decades, are all the more reason that How the Clinic Made Gender is a welcome and powerful contribution to histories of gender. Eder, a historian at the University of California, Berkeley, joins other scholars, particularly Joanne Meyerowitz, in telling her ‘uneasy origin story’ of how the ideas of gender and ‘gender role’ emerged and were put into medical practice in the mid-20th century. Focused on the Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Eder historicizes her account within the complicated rise of a therapeutic society and the shifting cultural landscapes of sex, gender, and sexuality.

Editor's Note

Editor's Note Nancy Baker Jones, Editor and Nancy Elizabeth Baker, Editor The new year is often an occasion for change and transition, and so it is at the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. With this issue, Nancy Baker Jones ends her editorship of the book reviews. She has held the post since the July 2016 issue, the beginning of the journal’s 120th volume. Her tenure has been marked by consistency, quality, and coverage of a more diverse assortment of books than had been the norm for our publication. One notable innovation Dr. Jones oversaw in her tenure was the review essay, which we began publishing in January 2021. Thank you, Nancy, for your exemplary service to the Quarterly. We welcome Nancy Elizabeth Baker as our new book review editor. Dr. Baker is associate professor of history at Sam Houston State University (SHSU). She earned her Ph.D. at Harvard University, and her research is on the history of gender, politics, and reform, focusing particularly on feminism and anti-feminism in the United States. Among her publications is the article “Hermine Tobolowsky: A Feminist’s Fight for Equal Rights,” which appeared in Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives (University of Georgia Press, 2015), edited Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Stephanie Cole, and Rebecca Sharpless. The collection won the 2016 Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women. Dr. Baker won SHSU’s Excellence in Teaching Award in 2015, and she is on the editorial board for the University of Oklahoma Press’s Women and the American West series. Copyright © 2022 The Texas State Historical Association

Завещания и иные семейно-правовые акты ратуши Сергиевского посада конца XVIII – середины XIX вв.: опыт современной эдиционной практики

The article reviews a large collection of documents of the Sergiev Posad Town Hall from the Central State Archive of Moscow Cityь prepared by N. A. Chetyrina, a well-known specialist in the history of population, administration, and everyday life of Russian small town in the era of “enlightened absolutism,” the reign of Nicholas, and during the Great Reforms preparation. The scientific community knew about her research in the archive from articles and monographs. The thematic selection of published materials is due to significance of studying models and roles of family in the history of Russian society. The provincial material of publication complements and clarifies N. V. Kozlova’s and A. Yu. Prokofieva’s works containing similar materials of the capital townspeople and nobles. The collection includes private legal acts covering a wide range of intra-family relations; it is a successful example of modern edition practice. Among documents published in full accordance with the rules of archeography, the majority are wills; they make up the first section of the book. The second section presents other types of intra-family agreements and certificates: various conditions, separate acts, deeds of gift, letters of trust, and other types of documents. Their compilers were women, as well as men, married or relatives by blood or marriage. Almost all groups of Russian city population were represented: merchants, burgers, peasants, nobles, military, officials, foreigners, clergy and familiars. Priests were more often witnesses. Many of originals were lost, but verbatim (or close) reproductions of original texts are preserved in books of testaments, separate acts, conditions and contracts. They demonstrate variety of inheritance practices and conditions for obtaining inheritance, reasons for choosing heirs or for disinheritance; they illustrates property and financial relations between relatives, status of widows, young children, married daughters, sons separated from the family. The archival documents published in the collection deal with diverse subjects of everyday life, public and personal relations in the 18th-19th centuries, they help to develop social and gender history, other modern humanities studies.

PERSONAL FUND OF N.N. MYASOEDOV: THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE SOURCE BASE IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF MODERN AND TRADITIONAL PROBLEMS OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH

This article discusses the possibilities of using materials from the fund 409 of the State Archive of the Saratov region, including correspondence and diary entries of Nikolai Nikolaevich Myasoedov, as sources for the study of diverse problems of historical research. The materials of this fund contain the correspondence of N.N. Myasoedov with his wife, brothers, and other relatives. The article explores topics that allow using the foundation's materials as documents reflecting the issues of the history of everyday life, historical biography, the history of mental news, gender history, local history (including the Volga region, Saratov, Nizhny Novgorod). The author also identified the directions of using these materials in the research of socio-economic and socio-political issues of the period of the early twentieth century and the First World War.

Unfinished Stories, Incomplete Revolutions: Gender and Women’s History in the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, 1922–2022

Over a century, the JCHA has published increasing numbers of innovative articles in gender and women’s history. Historians have addressed foundational debates about the connection between public and private spheres, transnational and postcolonial turns, the discursive construction of gender, and the history of masculinity. The expansion of women’s and gender history in the decade of the 1990s consolidated the field, but also created a sense of disquiet as historians challenged national narratives and disciplinary authority in the historical profession. Despite decades of rich historiographical insights, however, powerful and systemic silences remain in the Journal, including the intersection of gender with race and Indigeneity, and articles with a non-Canadian or non–North American frame of reference. New approaches to questions of gender and power will be needed to challenge, enliven, and reinvigorate the field as it moves into the mid-twenty-first century.

Women’s Agency: Then and Now

Abstract: This article surveys recent thinking about agency as a concept, both in general and within women’s and gender history, and then discusses some of the ways in which women’s agency has figured in early modern cultural and economic history over the last several decades. It considers whether women’s agency might have been a matter of norms as well as actions, that is, whether people expected women to be capable, economically productive, qualified, and skilled while simultaneously ascribing to patriarchal norms about women’s weakness. It highlights several research areas in which women’s agency has been a particularly important theme in recent scholarship and examines arguments about women’s and girls’ agency that have emerged in debates about the role of women’s work in European economic expansion. At the end, it briefly connects early modern developments with some trends in women’s lives that have emerged because of the COVID pandemic.

«КРИВАВІ РОЖІ». ЖИТТЯ І ТВОРЧІСТЬ ЛЮДМИЛИ ФОЇ – ЛЕГЕНДИ УКРАЇНСЬКОГО ВИЗВОЛЬНОГО РУХУ

In Ukraine, under the conditions of military aggression by the Russian Federation, the role of women in the heroic struggle of the Ukrainian people against the aggressor is increasingly growing. In this aspect, gender history is important - a field that examines the history of women in different periods. The most relevant today is the study of the history of the Ukrainian liberation movement, in particular the participation of Ukrainian women in it, which makes it possible to reveal the gender component of the national liberation struggles of the Ukrainian people from a new, sometimes unexpected side. As scientists note, women made a significant contribution to the development and activity of the Ouniv underground, their practical activity in the Ukrainian national liberation movement was extremely multifaceted. The study is focused on highlighting the role of Ukrainian women in the Ukrainian liberation movement in the 1940s and 1950s. on the example of the life and creative path of one of the most mysterious figures of the Ukrainian liberation movement, Lyudmila Foya (1923–1950), a liaison underground of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (Bandera) in Kyiv during the Second World War, a prisoner of the internal prison of the NKGB of the Ukrainian SSR, a participant armed struggle of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Volyn and Polissia. Reading the works of L. Foya will allow us to return the name of this unique writer to Ukrainian literature. Her works are aimed at the formation of patriotic values of a young person, who is in constant dynamic development of the value-emotional sphere, acts as a driving force, on whose views the development of Ukrainian statehood depends.

The Case of Captain’s Wife Voeikova

The article is devoted to the analysis of archival materials related to the conflict in the landowner family of Fyodor and Alexandra Voeikov, which acquired the character of a secret state affair, in which top officials were involved and in which the final decision was made by Empress Catherine II. The documents in question are a valuable source on gender history, contain interesting information on the history of everyday life, patron-client and family relations, customs and worldview of the Russian nobility in the last quarter of the 18th century. The article also raises the question of the nature of the royal disgrace in Catherinian Russia.

Trap/Trope: Galarte's Trans-Figurative, Racialized Readings

Trap/Trope: Galarte's Trans-Figurative, Racialized Readings

Tudor queenship: Rethinking how power affect Catherine of Aragon and Elizabeth I with foucauldian theories from a feminist perspective

In the annals of English history, the Tudor Dynasty is one of the most captivating eras. Within this dynastic tapestry, few women figures have left as indelible mark as Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of King Henry VIII, and the Virgin Queen---Elizabeth I. One that steps into the sphere of marriage and reproduction, facing the conflict of showing political talent and being the beloved wife of King Henry VIII. The other, a consistent formal dominant of England, remained a virgin throughout her life. Although they had slightly different monarchical roles, they faced similar challenges to the power structure in medieval Tudor. Thus, it is valuable to examine their roles by reconsidering the relations between gender, power, and monarchy. Also, examining how they survive and resist while maximizing their autonomy of power could provide a novel insight into the collaboration of the study of gender history and sociology. This essay attempts historical sociology to scrutinize the role of their queenship in the centre of the patriarchal and monarchical domain of the House of Tudors. There is a notable surge in applying Michel Foucault’s approach to theories of power in gender study by feminists. One of the aims of this research is to fill the vacancy of application of Foucault’s theories into medieval history as well. It aims to investigate the category of gender and its symbolism concerning queenship in the historical period. Most importantly, to redefine, reclaim, and re-evaluate the meanings and values of women figures throughout the traditional historiographical pattern of queenship, which the male chronological historians have largely created at the time. It is found that the two queenships sprouse comprehensive sociological meanings of a parallel considerdation of gender, power and body in such particular political spectrum of monarchial field.

Unthinking historical thinking: lessons from the Arctic

In a 2017 book chapter on the continuing erasure of Indigenous epistemes in academia, the Sami scholar Rauna Kuokkanen posed an important question: is it acceptable for a site of learning to be so ignorant? Foregrounding Indigenous scholarship from the Arctic, this article examines the potential of history education to address this question. Based on previous research on Arctic gender history and the coloniality of knowledge, I suggest a paradigm shift, in view of the new UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development framework (May 2021). The research investigates the challenges and opportunities that history education offers in terms of epistemic and cognitive justice within the context of Arctic memory cultures. The article concludes that much can be learned from (not about) Indigenous scholarship, which has long demonstrated a range of critical and sustainable methodologies that offer opportunities to seek epistemic justice and the restitution of cultural memory.