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Gender, Emotions and Power, 1750–2020: Part I: Gender, class and sexuality in the negotiation of political power

Gender, Emotions and Power, 1750–2020
Part I: Gender, class and sexuality in the negotiation of political power
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  1. Series
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of illustrations
  6. Notes on contributors
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
    1. Gender, power and emotion
    2. Situating class, race and sexuality in the history of emotions
    3. Scope and parameters
    4. Notes
    5. References
  9. Part I: Gender, class and sexuality in the negotiation of political power
    1. 1. ‘My old eyes weep but I am proud of my own children’: grief and revolutionary motherhood in the Soviet 1920s
      1. Maternal feelings
      2. Motherhood and grief
      3. Grieving suicide
      4. Conclusions
      5. Notes
      6. References
        1. Unpublished primary sources
        2. Contemporary media and published accounts
        3. Books and articles
    2. 2. Emotion as a tool of Russian bisexual and transgender women’s online activism: a case study
      1. Inherent complexities of gender and sexuality in Russia: emotional communities in women’s online activism
      2. Women’s activism as a gendered discourse of ‘unruly’ emotions
      3. Emotions and acceptance: the challenges of invisibility and bisexual rights activism
      4. Emotions and empowerment: transgender rights activism as a means of activist identity-building
      5. Reflections and suggestions for further study
      6. Notes
      7. References
    3. 3. Sounding the socialist heroine: gender, revolutionary lyricism and Korean war films
      1. Representing the Korean War on screen
      2. The making of Shanggan Ridge
      3. Adapting ‘Reunion’ to Heroic Sons and Daughters
      4. The genealogy of the songstress
      5. The changing politics of gender
      6. Coda
      7. Notes
      8. References
    4. 4. Emotions at work: solidarity in the Liverpool dock dispute, 1995–8
      1. Solidarity, gender and Liverpool’s dock community
      2. Never cross a picket line
      3. Women of the Waterfront
      4. Empathetic boundaries
      5. Conclusion
      6. Notes
      7. References
        1. Primary sources
        2. Secondary sources
  10. Part II: Power and place-making: class, hygiene and race in the British Empire
    1. 5. White pride, male anger and the shame of poverty: gendered emotions and the construction of white working-class identity in interwar Southern Rhodesia
      1. Background to Southern Rhodesian white labour
      2. Pride in wage labour
      3. Pride and domesticity
      4. Mobilizations of shame
      5. Depression
      6. Poverty and gendered shame
      7. Anger
      8. Conclusion
      9. Notes
      10. References
        1. Primary sources
        2. Secondary sources
    2. 6. ‘Africans smell different’: disgust, fear and the gendering of interracial intimacy in Kenya and Zambia
      1. The emotions of smell
      2. The colonial racialization of smell
      3. Decolonization and fear of African sexuality
      4. ‘What a waste of a white skin’: marriage, reproduction and the white family unit
      5. White women and the ‘black worker’: racializing class through smell
      6. Conclusion
      7. Notes
      8. References
        1. Primary sources
          1. Oral history
          2. Archives
        2. Secondary sources
    3. 7. Gender, mission, emotion: building hospitals for women in northwestern British India
      1. Female missionaries as amateur architects
      2. Purdah hospital
      3. Conclusion
      4. Notes
      5. References
        1. Primary sources
        2. Secondary sources
  11. Part III: Modern Europe’s public sphere and the policing of the gendered body
    1. 8. ‘The sap that runs in it is the same’: how the ideal of romantic love challenged the myth of ‘primitive’ polygamy in Paolo Mantegazza’s sexual science
      1. The ideal of romantic love in post-unification Italy
      2. The influence of romantic love at the roots of sexual science
      3. The sexuality of the so-called ‘primitives’
      4. Questioning the polygamy of non-Western peoples
      5. Conclusions
      6. Notes
      7. References
    2. 9. Writing the man of politeness: the hidden importance of shame in eighteenth-century masculinity
      1. A literary history of emotions?
      2. Shame and eighteenth-century polite masculinity
      3. Literary uses of shame
      4. Writing the male body: shame in Lord Chesterfield’s letters
      5. Conclusion
      6. Notes
      7. References
    3. 10. ‘At nature’s mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him’: suicide, masculine shame and the language of burden in nineteenth-century Britain
      1. Introduction
      2. A Malthusian framework for suicide: utilitarianism, individualism and the language of burden
      3. An alternative form of knowing: reclaiming respectability through melodramatic narratives
      4. ‘Death before the workhouse’: suicide and masculine shame
      5. Conclusion
      6. Notes
      7. References
    4. 11. ‘Sadistic, grinning rifle-women’: gender, emotions and politics in representations of militant leftist women
      1. Preamble: naming the world
      2. Violent mutilations
      3. Unruly women
      4. Everything flows
      5. One or several women?
      6. Violent women versus violence against women
      7. (Not) all men
      8. Epilogue
      9. Notes
      10. References
  12. Index

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