Race, Class and Gender Disparities in Clara Barton's Late Nineteenth-Century Disaster Relief

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Moser Jones
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Disaster Relief ◽  
Gender Disparities ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
And Gender

Intimacy and Family in the California Borderlands

2020 ◽  
Vol 89 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margie Brown-Coronel
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
California History ◽  
Historical Source ◽  
Gender Dynamics ◽  
Commercial Development ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
And Gender

Using personal and family letters written between 1876 and 1896, this article charts the life of a post-conquest Californiana, Josefa del Valle Forster (1861–1943). It argues that the industrial and commercial development that took place in Southern California after 1850 reconfigured family relationships and gender dynamics, shifting understandings of intimacies for del Valle Forster. This discussion of an era and community often overlooked in California history contributes to a fuller picture of how Californianas experienced the late nineteenth century, and it highlights the significance of letters as a historical source for understanding how individuals and families negotiated the transformations wrought by war and conquest.

scholarly journals Dreamers in dialogue: evolution, sex and gender in the utopian visions of William Morris and William Henry Hudson

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
Caterina Novák
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
William Morris ◽  
Sexuality And Gender ◽  
William Henry Hudson ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
And Gender

The aim of this article is to explore the parallels between two late-nineteenth-century utopias,William Henry Hudsons A Crystal Age (1882) and William Morriss News from Nowhere (1891). Itaims to explore how these two works respond to the transition from a kinetic to a static conception ofutopia that under pressure from evolutionary and feminist discourses took place during the period.Particular focus lies on the way in which this is negotiated through the depiction of evolution, sexuality,and gender roles in the respective novels, and how the depiction of these disruptive elements may workas a means of ensuring the readers active engagement in political, intellectual and emotional terms.

The Psychic Chaitanya: Global Occult and Vaishnavism in Fin de Siècle Bengal

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-29
Author(s):  
Varuni Bhatia
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Fin De Siècle ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article explores the intersections between Spiritualism, Mesmerism, and Bengali Vaishnavism in fin de siècle Bengal through the experiments in spirit communication conducted by the Ghosh family of Amrita Bazar Patrika Press fame. As a result of these engagements, the Amrita Bazar Patrika group proposed a novel understanding of Krishna Chaitanya/Gauranga (1486–1533) as a psychic who was able to channelize God through his unique powers of mediumship. It contributes to a nascent but growing body of scholarship around the relationship between religious modernity in colonial India and transnational occult networks. The article is written in three parts: part one discusses transnational occult networks crisscrossing Calcutta in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, with a focus on Theosophy and Spiritualism. It explores the initial goodwill between Madame Blavatsky and Sishir Kumar Ghosh, which dissipated later. The second part focuses on the Ghosh family séance, with the aim of parsing out how traditional and popular Bengali ‘ghosts’ were incorporated into a spectrum of occult knowledge about ‘higher’ spirits. This section also brings to light the caste and gender relationships exposed during séances held in the Ghosh family circle. Part three singles out the image of the ‘psychic Chaitanya’ from the pages of the Hindu Spiritual Magazine to bring into focus interactions between Yoga and occult in the context of the development of modern Bengali Vaishnavism.

Victor Capoul, Marguerite Olagnier's "Le Saïs", and the Arousing of Female Desire

1999 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 419-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Henson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Female Desire ◽  
French Opera ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Historical Basis ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship

We tend to think of exoticism in late nineteenth-century French opera as a very male-oriented phenomenon: as "cultural work" carried out mainly by men and for the male spectator's pleasure. This article takes as its starting point a rather different configuration of opera, exoticism, and gender issues, exploring the possibility of a form of French operatic exoticism aimed at the fantasies and desires of women. In particular, the article focuses on a now wholly forgotten work, Marguerite Olagnier's Le Saïs (1881), and on the role in this and other operas of Victor Capoul, an Opéra-Comique tenor once celebrated not only for his vocal and dramatic skills, but also for his popularity with female listeners. In addition to providing a firm historical basis from which to begin theorizing about the relationship between exoticism and the late nineteenth-century female listener, the case of Capoul and Le Saïs reveals how operatic men, even the most high-voiced and seemingly effeminate, can be as complexly compelling-and even as liberating-for women as recent critics have argued for sopranos and "queer" listeners.

Inscribing Gender in the Imperial Context: The "Woman Question" in Nineteenth Century Egypt

Hawwa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 328-355
Author(s):  
Helena Kaler
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Woman Question ◽  
Gender Discourse ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
Shared Culture ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Final Question

AbstractThis essay explores the connection between empire and gender, through an examination of the gender discourse produced in late nineteenth-century Egypt by both British and Egyptian actors. This exploration is informed by Edward Said's observation that the culture of Empire is not simply a set of ideologies imposed from the metropole onto the periphery but is a shared culture created in collaboration and contrapuntally between the two. In this context, the dichotomies of metropole/periphery and colonizer/colonized need to be reexamined since these concepts do not always exist in opposition and could sometimes coexist in the same person. A final question concerns the existence of common British imperial gender culture.

INTERPRETING RUPTURE IN ORAL MEMORY: THE REGIONAL CONTEXT FOR CHANGES IN WESTERN SERENGETI AGE ORGANIZATION (1850–1895)

2003 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAN BENDER SHETLER
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Regional Context ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
And Gender

This essay argues that the apparent discrepancies between oral tradition and other kinds of historical evidence in the western Serengeti, Tanzania, result from a rupture in time and space. As people were incorporated into a meta-ethnic region to the east dominated by the Maasai in the last half of the nineteenth century, they created new ways of calculating time and organizing space based on new kinds of age-sets. Within this larger context of widespread disasters the small, unconsolidated western Serengeti ethnic groups that we now know as Nata, Ikoma, Ishenyi and Ngoreme formed their identities. New generational and gender contests of power came into play as western Serengeti peoples responded creatively to the pressures of the late nineteenth century by mobilizing their own internal cultural resources.

Criminal Genius: Constructing Women of Science in L. T. Meade's Detective Fiction

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-160
Author(s):  
Rachel Smillie
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Detective Fiction ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Scientific Authority ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Detective Series

This article explores the construction of the criminal masterminds Madame Koluchy and Madame Sara in L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace's detective series The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings (1899) and The Sorceress of the Strand (1903). Previously overlooked in critical histories of detective fiction, Meade's work has begun to attract interest in recent years. However, studies of both Brotherhood and Sorceress have tended to focus on Koluchy's and Sara's criminality and, as such, have not addressed their significance as women of science. Focusing on Sara's and Koluchy's roles as medical practitioners, this paper reads these women in the context of late nineteenth-century debates on medical orthodoxy and quackery, professionalism, and gender. Approached in this way, Sara's and Koluchy's criminality becomes intrinsically linked to their genius and the professional threat they pose to their detective counterparts who stand as representatives of male institutional science. Sara and Koluchy constitute an uncontainable challenge to male scientific authority and play on anxieties which the narratives fail to assuage. These women are positioned as composite figures who simultaneously embody and interrogate competing sides of the contemporary scientific and medical debate.

Health by design: teaching cleanliness and assembling hygiene at the nineteenth-century sanitation museum

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
HILARY BUXTON
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Product Endorsements

AbstractIn 1878, amid a rapidly proliferating social interest in public health and cleanliness, a group of sanitary scientists and reformers founded the Parkes Museum of Hygiene in central London. Dirt and contagion knew no social boundaries, and the Parkes's founders conceived of the museum as a dynamic space for all classes to better themselves and their environments. They promoted sanitary science through a variety of initiatives: exhibits of scientific, medical and architectural paraphernalia; product endorsements; and lectures and certificated courses in practical sanitation, food inspection and tropical hygiene. While the Parkes's programmes reified the era's hierarchies of class and gender, it also pursued a public-health mission that cut across these divisions. Set apart from the great cultural and scientific popular museums that dominated Victorian London, it exhibited a collection with little intrinsic value, and offered an education in hygiene designed to be imported into visitors’ homes and into urban spaces in the metropole and beyond. This essay explores the unique contributions of the Parkes Museum to late nineteenth-century sanitary science and to museum development, even as the growth of public-health policy rendered the museum obsolete.

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