Women, Work, and Gender Relations in Developing Countries. A Global Perspective

The history of migration is the history of human connections. Migration, then, is a powerful element in world history precisely because it identifies points of contact among peoples and nations and thus provides a deeper understanding of the human experience than institutional or diplomatic perspectives. Here, I seek to connect the global history of migration to family systems, demographic patterns and gender relations – those most intimate connections that bring life to our analyses of the past. A global perspective on historical migrations offers a fascinating challenge to the Europeanist, familiar with the rhythms of European migration and the social and economic systems that gave rise to them. In response to Adam McKeown's observations about Asia in world migrations, I focus on Chinese family and gender relations.

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REVIEW: Claire M. Renzetti and Charles Harvey Miley. VIOLENCE IN GAY AND LESBIAN DOMESTIC PARTNERSHIPS. New York: Haworth Press, 1996. and Barbara Fawcett, Brid Featherstone, Jeff Hearn, and Christine Toft. VIOLENCE AND GENDER RELATIONS: THEORIES AND INTERVENTIONS. and Susan Koppelman. WOMEN IN THE TREES: U.S. WOMEN'S SHORT STORIES ABOUT BATTERING AND RESISTANCE, 1839-1994.

NWSA Journal ◽

10.2979/nws.1997.9.3.198 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 198-202

Author(s):

Marcia E. Bedard

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Short Stories ◽

Gender Relations ◽

Gay And Lesbian ◽

Domestic Partnerships ◽

And Gender

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Frondeuses and Feminists in the Work of Arvède Barine (1840–1908)

French Politics Culture & Society ◽

10.3167/fpcs.2020.380105 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

pp. 91-112

Author(s):

Whitney Walton

Keyword(s):

Gender Relations ◽

Third Republic ◽

National Library ◽

Women And Gender ◽

Public Debates ◽

And Gender

This article examines Arvède Barine’s extensive and popular published output from the 1880s to 1908, along with an extraordinary cache of letters addressed to Barine and held in the Manuscript Department of the National Library of France. It asserts that in the process of criticizing contemporary feminist activists and celebrating the achievements of women, especially French women, in history, she constructed the historical and cultural distinctiveness of French women as an ideal blend of femininity, accomplishment, and independence. This notion of the French singularity, indeed the superiority of French women, resolved the contradiction between her condemnation of feminism as a transformation of gender relations and her support for causes and reforms that enabled women to lead intellectually and emotionally fulfilling lives. Barine’s work offers another example of the varied ways that women in Third Republic France engaged with public debates about women and gender.

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