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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 Unpublished primary sources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

Contents

  1. List of illustrations
  2. Notes on contributors
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. Hannah Parker and Josh Doble
  6. Gender, power and emotion
  7. Situating class, race and sexuality in the history of emotions
  8. Scope and parameters
  9. Notes
  10. References
  11. Part I  Gender, class and sexuality in the negotiation of political power
  12. 1.   ‘My old eyes weep but I am proud of my own children’: grief and revolutionary motherhood in the Soviet 1920s
  13. Hannah Parker
  14. Maternal feelings
  15. Motherhood and grief
  16. Grieving suicide
  17. Conclusions
  18. Notes
  19. References
  20. Unpublished primary sources
  21. Contemporary media and published accounts
  22. Books and articles
  23. 2.   Emotion as a tool of Russian bisexual and transgender women’s online activism: a case study
  24. Olga Andreevskikh
  25. Inherent complexities of gender and sexuality in Russia: emotional communities in women’s online activism
  26. Women’s activism as a gendered discourse of ‘unruly’ emotions
  27. Emotions and acceptance: the challenges of invisibility and bisexual rights activism
  28. Emotions and empowerment: transgender rights activism as a means of activist identity-building
  29. Reflections and suggestions for further study
  30. Notes
  31. References
  32. 3.   Sounding the socialist heroine: gender, revolutionary lyricism and Korean war films
  33. Yucong Hao
  34. Representing the Korean War on screen
  35. The making of Shanggan Ridge
  36. Adapting ‘Reunion’ to Heroic Sons and Daughters
  37. The genealogy of the songstress
  38. The changing politics of gender
  39. Coda
  40. Notes
  41. References
  42. 4.   Emotions at work: solidarity in the Liverpool dock dispute, 1995–8
  43. Emma Copestake
  44. Solidarity, gender and Liverpool’s dock community
  45. Never cross a picket line
  46. Women of the Waterfront
  47. Empathetic boundaries
  48. Conclusion
  49. Notes
  50. References
  51. Primary sources
  52. Secondary sources
  53. Part II  Power and place-making: class, hygiene and race in the British Empire
  54. 5.   White pride, male anger and the shame of poverty: gendered emotions and the construction of white working-class identity in interwar Southern Rhodesia
  55. Nicola Ginsburgh
  56. Background to Southern Rhodesian white labour
  57. Pride in wage labour
  58. Pride and domesticity
  59. Mobilizations of shame
  60. Depression
  61. Poverty and gendered shame
  62. Anger
  63. Conclusion
  64. Notes
  65. References
  66. Primary sources
  67. Secondary sources
  68. 6.   ‘Africans smell different’: disgust, fear and the gendering of interracial intimacy in Kenya and Zambia
  69. Josh Doble
  70. The emotions of smell
  71. The colonial racialization of smell
  72. Decolonization and fear of African sexuality
  73. ‘What a waste of a white skin’: marriage, reproduction and the white family unit
  74. White women and the ‘black worker’: racializing class through smell
  75. Conclusion
  76. Notes
  77. References
  78. Primary sources
  79. Oral history
  80. Archives
  81. Secondary sources
  82. 7.   Gender, mission, emotion: building hospitals for women in northwestern British India
  83. Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi
  84. Female missionaries as amateur architects
  85. Purdah hospital
  86. Conclusion
  87. Notes
  88. References
  89. Primary sources
  90. Secondary sources
  91. Part III  Modern Europe’s public sphere and the policing of the gendered body
  92. 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
  93. Francesca Campani
  94. The ideal of romantic love in post-unification Italy
  95. The influence of romantic love at the roots of sexual science
  96. The sexuality of the so-called ‘primitives’
  97. Questioning the polygamy of non-Western peoples
  98. Conclusions
  99. Notes
  100. References
  101. 9.   Writing the man of politeness: the hidden importance of shame in eighteenth-century masculinity
  102. Michael Rowland
  103. A literary history of emotions?
  104. Shame and eighteenth-century polite masculinity
  105. Literary uses of shame
  106. Writing the male body: shame in Lord Chesterfield’s letters
  107. Conclusion
  108. Notes
  109. References
  110. 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
  111. Lyndsay Galpin
  112. Introduction
  113. A Malthusian framework for suicide: utilitarianism, individualism and the language of burden
  114. An alternative form of knowing: reclaiming respectability through melodramatic narratives
  115. ‘Death before the workhouse’: suicide and masculine shame
  116. Conclusion
  117. Notes
  118. References
  119. 11. ‘Sadistic, grinning rifle-women’: gender, emotions and politics in representations of militant leftist women
  120. Hannah Proctor
  121. Preamble: naming the world
  122. Violent mutilations
  123. Unruly women
  124. Everything flows
  125. One or several women?
  126. Violent women versus violence against women
  127. (Not) all men
  128. Epilogue
  129. Notes
  130. References
  131. Index

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