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Gender, Emotions and Power, 1750–2020: Acknowledgements

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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 Unpublished primary sources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

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank each of the contributors to this book who have patiently and diligently worked with the editorial team for almost four years, under some very challenging personal and collective circumstances – not least the ongoing pandemic. We thank each of them for their good humour, intellectual engagement and perseverance! It has been a genuine pleasure to be able to read such lively and insightful research, and we have sought to emphasize the unique and captivating voices of each of the authors in our editorial work. We hope that this has been successful.

This book began as a series of conversations in seminars at the University of Sheffield and pubs around the city between Hannah Parker, Dr Becca Mytton and Dr Elizabeth Goodwin. These informal chats later became the Gendered Emotions in History conference, hosted at the university in June 2018, which sought to bring wider perspectives to bear on the questions we had raised about the troubling intersections of gender and emotion. The conference featured a wide range of submissions and disciplines, all of which spoke to the ongoing political and social urgency of the theme, and whose ambition and interdisciplinarity served to drive this volume. We want to start by thanking all those who attended and presented at Gendered Emotions, including the keynote addresses from Thomas Dixon and Hannah Proctor. Your interventions and participation at that event laid the foundations for the work in this book. We are also grateful to the institutions and bodies who provided generous funding and support for this project, and in particular the funding provided for childcare and children’s items to make the conference ‘child-friendly’: the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities, the Social History Society and the Royal Historical Society.

Finally, our thanks to University of London Press and in particular to our mentor Nick Witham and Books Manager Emma Gallon, whose support and guidance has made the sometimes lengthy editorial process enjoyable. We would also like to thank the editors, Elizabeth Hurren and Heather Shore, who have supported this project since first seeing it. Thank you too to our anonymous reviewers for their clear, engaged and supportive feedback, which helped shape the book into its final form.

Olga Andreevskikh: This work is dedicated to the brave women who kindly agreed to share their experiences for my case study and all the other courageous bisexual and transgender activists fighting for equal rights in Russia.

Emma Copestake: My work would not be possible without the generosity of the dock workers and their family members in Liverpool who helped me to understand the meaning of solidarity in new ways. My contribution here is also indebted to the kind academics and archivists who have encouraged me to keep going over the last few years, including both Hannah and Josh. My final thank you goes to my husband, family and friends for their endless love, support and reminders that life exists outside of research.

Josh Doble: My research is indebted to the generosity of many people in Kenya and Zambia. The staff at the National Archives of both countries must be given special mention for their patience with my relentless requests and their dedication to finding obscure records. A particular thanks has to go to the participants in this research, whose testimonies, photos, private archival material and open address books are what made this research possible. The distinct direction this research took was a direct result of my participants’ hospitality and willingness to engage. I cannot name specific individuals or family collections but there are key interlocutors in both countries who deserve special mention. I would like to think they know who they are.

Hannah Parker: I owe a debt of gratitude to friends, family and a number of academics, though there are two named dedications I’d like to make here. First, given the subject of my research, to the victims of the full-scale Russian military invasion of Ukraine. Second, to the contributors to this collection, for entrusting us with their excellent research.

Michael Rowland: This chapter is for Yousif Ali: the accelerator to my brake; the joy to my sadness. And for Lesley Rowland, my mother and very first role model.

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