Gender and Migration: Historical Perspectives

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne M. Sinke
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Longitudinal Analysis ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
And Gender ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Gender has become a category of concern for many historians of migration in scholarship of the 2000s. This article notes a variety of factors which made it possible and likely for historians to turn to questions of gender. The article surveys historiography on migration and gender as it developed in the late twentieth century and explores some current directions in this scholarship, on a variety of geographic scales: global, national, and local. It emphasizes the need for longitudinal analysis in any study of gender and migration, and notes some approaches to the concept of time used by historians.

Late Twentieth-Century Controversies in Sexual Ethics, Gender, and Ordination

2019 ◽  
pp. 317-332
Author(s):  
Lesley Orr
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Moral Authority ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
Women's Ordination ◽  
The Status ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Gender Power ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Late Twentieth Century ◽  
The Church

During the second half of the twentieth century, a seismic shift in outlook, norms, behaviours, and laws transformed Western societies, particularly in relation to sexuality and gender relations. These changes were characterized and facilitated by escalating rejection of dominant sources of moral authority, including organized religion. This chapter considers the Church of Scotland’s response to the ‘permissive society’. It attempted to grapple theologically with questions concerning marriage and divorce, homosexuality, and women’s ordination, confronted unavoidably with profound questions concerning gender, power, and sexuality. These debates generated controversy and division as the moral consensus fractured. Fault lines opened up between conservatives who defended the validity of Christian moral certainties, and others who embraced more liberal and contextual interpretations of Scripture and tradition. Previously silenced or subordinated voices emerged, challenging but failing to provoke radical institutional change at a time of rapid declension in the status and cultural influence of the national Church.

Introduction

1997 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Gay Seidman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Class Differences ◽  
Racial Capitalism ◽  
Daily Experiences ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

It has become a common place in the late twentieth century to remark on the persistence of difference and inequality among workers; as we all know, racial capitalism has been more likely to perpetuate visible distinctions between workers than to erase them. This recreation of difference among workers is true along lines of age and gender, but it is perhaps most evident in terms of race: The daily experiences of most workers have not been colorblind at any time in capitalism's history. As many analysts have pointed out, instead of the homogenized proletariat united by a common economic interest predicted by most early-twentieth century social theories, racial capitalism has been composed of institutions and relationships which are built on, and which recreate, racial differences within the working class—differences that continue to shape and be reflected in workers' understanding of themselves and others.

Drag, camp and gender subversion in the music and videos of Annie Lennox

Popular Music ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
GILLIAN RODGER
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Musical Theatre ◽  
Gender Construction ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Trouble ◽  
Gender Subversion ◽  
Late Twentieth Century ◽  
Radical Shift

In this article I examine Lennox's earliest performance strategies, and her reasons for employing them, as well as some of the reactions to her adoption of transvestism as a sartorial style. I discuss three videos from Lennox's 1988 LP Savage, which, in my view, marked a radical shift in her approach to depicting gender through performance. I argue that Lennox may be more productively viewed by keeping in mind performance ideals of music hall and other popular musical theatre styles of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Finally I discuss Lennox's challenge to late twentieth-century gender construction using Judith Butler's theories of the performative nature of gender and of the subversive reiteration of gender, outlined in her books Gender Trouble and Bodies that Matter, and suggesting ways in which Lennox's performance embodies these theories, while extending them to include a broader range of sexualities.

Psychoanalysis in the Twenty-First Century: Does Gender Matter?

2018 ◽  
pp. 708-726
Author(s):  
Louise Gyler
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
First Century ◽  
Normative Values ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Variations ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

This chapter is concerned with exploring the relevance of gender as a critical category for clinical psychoanalysis. It recognizes two developments in the late twentieth century that may appear to present gender as either not a pressing issue in self-development or as sufficiently troubled and undone to have lost its regulatory grip. The first concerns the domination of the psychoanalytic imagination with preoccupations other than sexuality, sexual difference, and gender; and the second is linked to the deconstruction and reconstruction of hetero-normative gendered frameworks initiated by cultural gender theorists. It is argued that the gendered binary of Western thought with its socially normative values and assumptions shapes the unconscious minds of every person. Notwithstanding critical appreciation of the gendered discourses of psychoanalysis as well as expanded thinking about the possible repertoire of individual gender variations, gender continues to carry evaluative burdens.

scholarly journals A view from the wharf: historical perspectives on the transformation of urban waterfront space in Stockholm during the twentieth century

Urban History ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 524-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
NATASHA VALL
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Waterfront Development ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Lake City ◽  
Urban Waterfront ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

ABSTRACT:This article examines the development of Hammarby Lake City in southern Stockholm on a former industrial, waterfront site during the 1990s. The setting may resemble recent global redevelopments of urban waterfronts and docks; however, in it Stockholm needs to be viewed against longer cultural, aesthetic and historical influences. This includes early twentieth-century precedents rooted in civic and residential engagement with the modern and industrial shoreline. In addition, an informal human interaction with the abandoned southern Hammarby harbour evolved during the 1950s through reoccupation by an itinerant community of workers. Such forerunners have often been overlooked in accounts of a late twentieth-century dramatic transformation of industrial waterfronts. The article concludes that there is scope to align the theme of waterfront development more closely to the longer history of the twentieth-century city. This perspective provides a useful counterpoint to the leading view of such spaces as an expression of late capitalism.

Trashing Identity Politics: Does It Really Get Us Back to Class?

2005 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 42-49
Author(s):  
Nelson Lichtenstein
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
The Us ◽  
Privileged Status ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Verity Burgmann creates an unnecessary and ahistorical distinction between the politics of class and that of the various identities through which the contemporary working class defines itself. Indeed, her vision of a self-conscious proletariat seems too male and too musty. Racial and gender identities have achieved a privileged status, compared to that of class, but this has less to do with the outlook of the left-wing academy than with the late twentieth-century transformation of law, politics, and social policy, both in the US and other multicultural nations.

Nine Centuries of Man

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Gender Expectations ◽  
Court Records ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Police Reports ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Scottish History ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

What did it mean to be a man in Scotland over the past nine centuries? Scotland, with its stereotypes of the kilted warrior and the industrial ‘hard man’, has long been characterised in masculine terms, but there has been little historical exploration of masculinity in a wider context. This interdisciplinary collection examines a diverse range of the multiple and changing forms of masculinities from the late eleventh to the late twentieth century, exploring the ways in which Scottish society through the ages defined expectations for men and their behaviour. How men reacted to those expectations is examined through sources such as documentary materials, medieval seals, romances, poetry, begging letters, police reports and court records, charity records, oral histories and personal correspondence. Focusing upon the wide range of activities and roles undertaken by men – work, fatherhood and play, violence and war, sex and commerce – the book also illustrates the range of masculinities that affected or were internalised by men. Together, the chapters illustrate some of the ways Scotland’s gender expectations have changed over the centuries and how, more generally, masculinities have informed the path of Scottish history

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