Hagar and Mariya

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Urban
Keyword(s):  
Women's History ◽  
Family Structures ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Female Figures ◽  
Slave Women ◽  
Women's Stories ◽  
Early Islamic ◽  
Women’S History

The chapter discusses representations of Hajar and Mariya, two prominent female figures from the early Islamic tradition, widely treated in Arabic-Islamic biographical dictionaries, Quranic exegeses, and Tales of the Prophets literature. It treats the varied images of both women, with a focus on two elements: Both women were slaves and both bore children to prophets. Islamic sources, penned almost exclusively by men, expunge nearly all other aspects of these women’s stories. But, slave women had an impact not just on family structures and notions of marriage and sexuality that people often associate with “women’s history,” but also on official, predominantly male-oriented ideologies. The two images informed the loftiest notions about who deserved to rule and who counted as a noble Arab.

“Can the Sistas Get Some History, Too?”

2020 ◽  
pp. 76-86
Author(s):  
Cherisse Jones-Branch
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Southern History ◽  
Intellectual Labor ◽  
Women's Stories ◽  
Scholarly Production ◽  
Women’S History

This chapter explores black women’s contributions to southern history by considering the contours and nuances of their intersectional experiences. Jones-Branch highlights the scholarly production that has resulted from often overlooked or underutilized resources that reveal the intellectual labor in which black women engaged as they carefully assessed and navigated the temporal and geographical times in which they lived. This chapter, additionally, demands a reconceptualization of the ways that southern women’s history has been understood and consumed in the absence of black women’s stories. It challenges historians to generate scholarship that elucidates black women by mining and reading traditional archival sources against the grain and creatively finding ways to access nontraditional sources to augment their voices.

scholarly journals Representações das histórias das mulheres na coleção indumentária do Museu Julio de Castilhos (1995-2010)

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. 411
Author(s):  
Andréa Reis Da Silveira
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Chronological Age ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Narrative Constructions ◽  
Women's Stories ◽  
Women’S History

O artigo apresenta a investigação sobre as representações das histórias das mulheres no acervo de indumentária do Museu Julio de Castilhos (MJC), PoA, RS, no recorte temporal de 1995-2010. Analisa os objetos de três exposições que abordaram perfil das mulheres rio-grandenses. Avalia as doações e a musealização feitas por mulheres, nas quais denominei intelectuais mediadoras. Os dados assinalaram que as construções narrativas da historicidade das peças passaram pela interpretação desse grupo de classe média, branco e de idade cronológica média, que compôs as informações que constam na documentação museológica do banco de dados Donato, e, no Livro Diário do acervo. Os resultados apontaram permanências de estereótipos sobre as histórias das mulheres, problematizando as ações educativas realizadas pelo MJC.Palavras-chave: Museu; Coleção indumentária; História das mulheres.AbstractThe paper presents the investigation about the representations of the women's stories in the collection of clothing of the Julio de Castilhos Museum (MJC), PoA, RS, in the 1995-2010 period.  The objects of three exhibitions that addressed the profile of women from Rio Grande do Sul are analyzed. It evaluates donations and musealization made by women, which I have called mediating intellectuals. Data indicated that the narrative constructions of the historicity of the pieces went through the interpretation of this group of middle class, white and middle chronological age, which composed the information contained in the museum documentation of the Donato database, and in the Daily Book of the collection. The results pointed to the permanence of stereotypes about the women's stories, problematizing the educational actions carried out by the MJC.Keywords: Museum; Collections; women's history.

A Women’s History of the Beatles

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Feldman-Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Female Figures ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women’S History

A Women’s History of the Beatles is the first book to offer a detailed presentation of the band’s social and cultural impact as understood through the experiences and lives of women. Drawing on a mix of interviews, archival research, textual analysis, and autoethnography, this scholarly work depicts how the Beatles have profoundly shaped and enriched the lives of women, while also reexamining key, influential female figures within the group’s history. Organized topically based on key themes important to the Beatles story, each chapter uncovers the varied and multifaceted relationships women have had with the band, whether face-to-face and intimately or parasocially through mediated, popular culture. Set within a socio-historical context that charts changing gender norms since the early 1960s, these narratives consider how the Beatles have affected women’s lives across three generations. Providing a fresh perspective of a well-known tale, this is a cultural history that moves far beyond the screams of Beatlemania to offer a more comprehensive understanding of what the now iconic band has meant to women over the course of six decades.

Writing Women into the Russian Revolution of 1917

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 214-231
Author(s):  
Adele Lindenmeyr
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Women’S History ◽  
The Revolution

Abstract While scholarship on Russian women’s history has flourished in recent decades, the participation of women in the 1917 Revolution continues to be under-researched and poorly understood. This article explores various reasons for the marginalization of women in studies of the revolution. It reviews promising recent research that recovers women’s experiences and voices, including work on women in the wartime labor force and soldiers’ wives, and argues for the usefulness of a feminist and gendered approach to studying 1917.

Islam: The Arabic and Persian Traditions, Eleventh–Fifteenth Centuries

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konrad Hirschler
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Abbasid Caliphate ◽  
Middle Period ◽  
Early Islamic

This chapter deals with how the Islamic historical writing of the Middle Period developed directly from the early Islamic tradition, and its legacy remained deeply inscribed into the ways history was written and represented between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries. However, as historians started to develop new styles and new genres, they turned to previously neglected aspects of the past, their social profile changed, and the writing of history became a more self-conscious, and to some degree self-confident, cultural practice. Most importantly, those issues that had motivated earlier historians, such as the legitimacy of the Abbasid Caliphate, declined in significance and historians of the Middle Period turned to new and more diverse subjects.

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