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Contents
- List of illustrations
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Hannah Parker and Josh Doble
- Gender, power and emotion
- Situating class, race and sexuality in the history of emotions
- Scope and parameters
- Notes
- References
- Part I Gender, class and sexuality in the negotiation of political power
- 1. ‘My old eyes weep but I am proud of my own children’: grief and revolutionary motherhood in the Soviet 1920s
- Hannah Parker
- Maternal feelings
- Motherhood and grief
- Grieving suicide
- Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Unpublished primary sources
- Contemporary media and published accounts
- Books and articles
- 2. Emotion as a tool of Russian bisexual and transgender women’s online activism: a case study
- Olga Andreevskikh
- Inherent complexities of gender and sexuality in Russia: emotional communities in women’s online activism
- Women’s activism as a gendered discourse of ‘unruly’ emotions
- Emotions and acceptance: the challenges of invisibility and bisexual rights activism
- Emotions and empowerment: transgender rights activism as a means of activist identity-building
- Reflections and suggestions for further study
- Notes
- References
- 3. Sounding the socialist heroine: gender, revolutionary lyricism and Korean war films
- Yucong Hao
- Representing the Korean War on screen
- The making of Shanggan Ridge
- Adapting ‘Reunion’ to Heroic Sons and Daughters
- The genealogy of the songstress
- The changing politics of gender
- Coda
- Notes
- References
- 4. Emotions at work: solidarity in the Liverpool dock dispute, 1995–8
- Emma Copestake
- Solidarity, gender and Liverpool’s dock community
- Never cross a picket line
- Women of the Waterfront
- Empathetic boundaries
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- Part II Power and place-making: class, hygiene and race in the British Empire
- 5. White pride, male anger and the shame of poverty: gendered emotions and the construction of white working-class identity in interwar Southern Rhodesia
- Nicola Ginsburgh
- Background to Southern Rhodesian white labour
- Pride in wage labour
- Pride and domesticity
- Mobilizations of shame
- Depression
- Poverty and gendered shame
- Anger
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- 6. ‘Africans smell different’: disgust, fear and the gendering of interracial intimacy in Kenya and Zambia
- Josh Doble
- The emotions of smell
- The colonial racialization of smell
- Decolonization and fear of African sexuality
- ‘What a waste of a white skin’: marriage, reproduction and the white family unit
- White women and the ‘black worker’: racializing class through smell
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Primary sources
- Oral history
- Archives
- Secondary sources
- 7. Gender, mission, emotion: building hospitals for women in northwestern British India
- Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi
- Female missionaries as amateur architects
- Purdah hospital
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Primary sources
- Secondary sources
- Part III Modern Europe’s public sphere and the policing of the gendered body
- 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
- Francesca Campani
- The ideal of romantic love in post-unification Italy
- The influence of romantic love at the roots of sexual science
- The sexuality of the so-called ‘primitives’
- Questioning the polygamy of non-Western peoples
- Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- 9. Writing the man of politeness: the hidden importance of shame in eighteenth-century masculinity
- Michael Rowland
- A literary history of emotions?
- Shame and eighteenth-century polite masculinity
- Literary uses of shame
- Writing the male body: shame in Lord Chesterfield’s letters
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 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
- Lyndsay Galpin
- Introduction
- A Malthusian framework for suicide: utilitarianism, individualism and the language of burden
- An alternative form of knowing: reclaiming respectability through melodramatic narratives
- ‘Death before the workhouse’: suicide and masculine shame
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- 11. ‘Sadistic, grinning rifle-women’: gender, emotions and politics in representations of militant leftist women
- Hannah Proctor
- Preamble: naming the world
- Violent mutilations
- Unruly women
- Everything flows
- One or several women?
- Violent women versus violence against women
- (Not) all men
- Epilogue
- Notes
- References
- Index