Egyptian Connections and the Nationalist Press

2021 ◽  
pp. 66-118
Author(s):  
Marilyn Booth
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
British Occupation

The chapter narrates the context Fawwaz entered in Egypt, the final third of the nineteenth century, a time of nationalist ferment before and in the wake of the British occupation (1882). It focuses on the little-studied figure of Hasan Husni al-Tuwayrani, who published many of Fawwaz’s essays in his newspaper al-Nil. The chapter considers the gender politics of al-Nil and the more prominent newspapers al-Mu’ayyad and Lisan al-hal in which Fawwaz also published, asking why she might have chosen to publish a majority of her essays in al-Nil, in the period 1892‒4. One likely factor was al-Tuwayrani’s adherence to the long-attested, rule-governed debate genre of munazara, explored here. The chapter also considers the reception through newspaper announcements of Fawwaz’s writings.

Inherited Emotions: George Eliot and the Politics of Heirlooms

2010 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Dunagan Osborne
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sexual Development ◽  
George Eliot ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Daniel Deronda ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
And Gender

Katherine Dunagan Osborne, "Inherited Emotions: George Eliot and the Politics of Heirlooms" (pp. 465––493) This essay removes George Eliot's heroines from heterosexual dyads to focus on the roles that things play in women's autonomous moral and sexual development. Because Eliot's female protagonists can adapt heirlooms for their own private and emotional purposes, they can replace traditional inheritance based on bloodlines with a non-familial, emotional inheritance, thus illustrating the subtlety of Eliot's family and gender politics. This reading of Eliot contextualizes specific heirlooms in Middlemarch (1871––72) and Daniel Deronda (1876)——including miniature portraits, emeralds, turquoises, and diamonds——to reveal the surprising politics embedded in Eliot's heirlooms that her nineteenth-century readers would certainly have recognized.

The Barbarian Borderland and the Chinese Imagination: Travellers in Wa Country

Inner Asia ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magnus Fiskesjö
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Opium Trade ◽  
British Occupation ◽  
Morning Star ◽  
Chinese State ◽  
The 1950S

AbstractThe Wa lands continue to be seized upon in the Chinese imagination, and elsewhere too, as representing what is dangerous and off limits. This is one important underlying reason why these lands, located in between China and Burma, have been some of the least-travelled areas on China's southwestern borders during most of the last few centuries. In fact, these areas have long been regarded as impenetrable for outsider travellers unless assisted by a full-fledged army, its gunpowder dry and its guns loaded. In the last years of the nineteenth century, the British occupation of Burma as well as increasing opium trade prompted increases in the numbers of Chinese and other visitors: officials, soldiers, traders, and so on. The first attempt at delineating a Burma-China border having failed, a second, joint British-Chinese survey was launched and almost completed in the late 1930s. These activities prompted a flurry of patriotic-scholarly efforts to claim these borderlands for the reconstituted Chinese state, which continued into the second half of the twentieth century. This brief paper explores some of the conflicting views of the various kinds of travellers and locals, including early Chinese judgements of the Wa, the nationalistic and scientistic travellers and writers of the 1930s, as well as the teams of ethnologists and soldiers dispatched there in the 1950s and 1960s – notably also Alan Winnington, the famous British correspondent for the Morning Star, and his Wa reception.

Gender Politics and the Study of Nineteenth-Century Autobiography

1998 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clinton MacHann
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Public Works ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
The Social ◽  
Male Dominated ◽  
Social Agendas ◽  
Literary Autobiography

This article discusses ideologically-slanted reactions to the study of British Victorian autobiography, a “male-dominated” literary genre, as an example of the “social agendas” currently operative in the study of the humanities. It focuses on the publication and reception of the book The Genre of Autobiography in Victorian Literature (1994a). Literary autobiography for the Victorians was a referential, nonfiction genre, which, with conventional pressures applied through historicity and verifiability, required the conflation of mental or spiritual (inner) development and the (outer) development of career and reputation based on publications (along with other public works). The field of men's studies opens up a space within which male writers like the Victorian autobiographers can be studied unapologetically from a variety of theoretical perspectives.

Afterword

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph M. Leck
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Modern History ◽  
Officer Corps ◽  
Nazi Ideology ◽  
Cultural Affinity

This concluding chapter discusses how underlying the choice of Ulrichs as a symbol of resistance to Prussian–Nazi politics resulted to growing popular recognition of sexual politics as a vital feature of modern history. In this vein, Minister Einem's expulsion of homosexuals from the German officer corps reveals the cultural affinity between the rise of mass armies in the nineteenth century and the construction of modern masculinity. This affinity was a core cultural–political continuity between Prussian authoritarianism and the Nazi dictatorship. Indeed, the aspect of Nazi ideology that most closely resembled the fascist archetype was its gender politics. The choice of Ulrichs as a replacement for Einem, then, symbolizes rising acknowledgment that reactionary sexual politics was the greatest moral–cultural appeal of fascist populism.

Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens, and the Rise of the Victorian Woman of Letters

2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-483
Author(s):  
Iain Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Woman Writer ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Harriet Martineau ◽  
Professional Woman ◽  
The Relationship

This essay revisits a public dispute between Harriet Martineau and Charles Dickens during the winter of 1855–56. It argues both that the nature of their quarrel has been largely misunderstood and also that its wider implications for understanding nineteenth-century intellectual and literary culture have been overlooked. The essay thus reexamines the dispute, its origins, and its aftermath, and places the event within the context of recent critical readings of Utilitarianism, the experience of industrial society, and the emergence of the professional woman writer. In so doing, it shows that a deeper exploration of the relationship between Martineau and Dickens adds considerably not only to our knowledge of the two authors themselves but also to our understanding of the ways in which nineteenth-century intellectual history interacts with the gender politics of Victorian literary culture and publishing.

The Struggle for the Mekong Banks 1892–1896

1968 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Hirshfield
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Occupation ◽  
French And English ◽  
Western European ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship of England and France in the last two decades of the nineteenth century was an unhappy one, marked by acrimony, discord and mutual suspicion. Though the French and English states represented the chief bastions of western European parlia-mentarianism, ideological similarities are rarely sufficient to counteract a long tradition of ill-will. Bitterness had begun to poison the atmosphere of Anglo-French relations at the time of the British occupation of Egypt in 1882, and in the years that followed anglo-phobia appeared to have achieved endemic proportions in France. Great Britain's inclination toward the Triple Alliance was so marked in French eyes that she was generally regarded as the “fourth partner in the concern.” This viewpoint contributed greatly to the inflamed state of Anglo-French relations.

scholarly journals Feminine names in current Romanian hodonymy

Onomastica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 271-287
Author(s):  
Oliviu Felecan ◽  
Nicolae Felecan
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
Street Naming ◽  
Power And Influence

This study aims to map the gender politics of contemporary Romanian street naming. Hodonyms mirror mentalities and the ideas prevailing in a society. Urban microtoponimy is an androcentric one, as public life has belonged, throughout history, almost exclusively to men. Women emerged from the private and domestic spheres only in the nineteenth century, and this justifies, in a way, the much smaller number of street names that are claimed by female names. The recognition of women’s role in society and their commemoration through hodonyms can function as a reparative act of balancing the power and influence asymmetries.

White Woman’s Burden and the Bible during the British Occupation of Singapore

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Lim
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
White Women ◽  
The Bible ◽  
British Occupation ◽  
Church Missionary Society ◽  
The Church

This essay explores the use of the Bible in one periphery of the British Occupation in the nineteenth century: Singapore at the intersection of gender and Empire. The key line of inquiry is to explore what Antoinette Burton outlines as the “white woman’s burden,” manifested in the Singaporean context through the use of the Bible by white women and their protégés. Therefore, this essay begins with how the work of white women is entangled with the interests of the Empire and then analyzes the periodical The Christian in Singapore: A Religious Magazine, which was published by the Ladies Bible and Tract Society in Singapore. This is followed by a closer look at education and women in the Church Missionary Society periodicals. The discussion focuses particularly on the biography of Sophia Cooke, a prominent missionary in Singapore, as well as a regional publication, India’s Women and China’s Daughters.

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