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Gender, Emotions and Power, 1750–2020: New Historical Perspectives

Gender, Emotions and Power, 1750–2020
New Historical Perspectives

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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Series
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of illustrations
  7. Notes on contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction
  10. 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
    2. 2. Emotion as a tool of Russian bisexual and transgender women’s online activism: a case study
    3. 3. Sounding the socialist heroine: gender, revolutionary lyricism and Korean war films
    4. 4. Emotions at work: solidarity in the Liverpool dock dispute, 1995–8
  11. 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
    2. 6. ‘Africans smell different’: disgust, fear and the gendering of interracial intimacy in Kenya and Zambia
    3. 7. Gender, mission, emotion: building hospitals for women in northwestern British India
  12. 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
    2. 9. Writing the man of politeness: the hidden importance of shame in eighteenth-century masculinity
    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
    4. 11. ‘Sadistic, grinning rifle-women’: gender, emotions and politics in representations of militant leftist women
  13. Index

New Historical Perspectives is a book series for early career scholars within the UK and the Republic of Ireland. Books in the series are overseen by an expert editorial board to ensure the highest standards of peer-reviewed scholarship. Commissioning and editing is undertaken by the Royal Historical Society, and the series is published by the University of London Press in association with the Institute of Historical Research.

The series is supported by the Economic History Society and the Past and Present Society.

Series co-editors: Professor Elizabeth Hurren (University of Leicester) and Professor Heather Shore (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Founding co-editors: Simon Newman (University of Glasgow) and Penny Summerfield (University of Manchester)

Editorial board: Professor Charlotte Alston (Northumbria University); Professor David Andress (University of Portsmouth); Dr Christopher Bahl (Durham University); Dr Milinda Banerjee (University of St Andrews); Dr Robert Barnes (York St John University); Dr Karin Bowie (University of Glasgow); Professor Catherine Clarke (Institute of Historical Research, University of London); Professor Neil Fleming (University of Worcester); Professor Ian Forrest (University of Oxford); Dr Emma Gallon (University of London Press); Dr Sarah Longair (University of Lincoln); Professor Jane Whittle (University of Exeter); Dr Charlotte Wildman (University of Manchester); Dr Nick Witham (University College London)

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