A Place Where Women Can Feel Valued, or Why Academic Professional Associations Matter, Especially for Women

2020 ◽  
pp. 56-75
Author(s):  
Melissa Walker
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
American South ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
Individual Female ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women Historians ◽  
The American South ◽  
Women’S History

The Southern Association for Women Historians provided a place where female historians felt validated and emboldened. By providing this space over the past five decades, the SAWH has done two important things: advance the careers of individual female historians while encouraging, developing, and legitimizing the study of women’s history. In the process, as several of the scholars here have already suggested, the SAWH helped transform the historiography of the American South by refocusing many of the lenses that scholars have trained on the past. The history of the SAWH demonstrates the crucial role that scholarly professional associations play in shaping fields of knowledge and the careers of individual scholars.

Toni Morrison’s Sacramental Rememory

2018 ◽  
pp. 13-66
Author(s):  
Erin Michael Salius
Keyword(s):  
American South ◽  
Complete Picture ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Social Death ◽  
The Past ◽  
Religious Vision ◽  
Constant Tension ◽  
History Of ◽  
The American South

Chapter 1 considers two novels by Toni Morrison which are widely celebrated for undermining Enlightenment rationalism: Beloved and A Mercy. As critics often note, Morrison’s concept of rememory—an antirealist trope, premised on the supernatural irruption of the past in the present—achieves this by imagining an alternative history of slavery. Yet a complete picture of these novels requires an account of the way that Morrison structures rememory—quite remarkably and with palpable historical reservations—as a Catholic sacrament. The chapter therefore addresses a significant gap in scholarship on Morrison (who identifies as Catholic), but never does it imply that her religious vision is uncritical or pure. Rather, it suggests that the sacramental aspects of rememory are in constant tension with the sharp critique of Catholicism evident in both novels. That critique builds upon the sociological study of slave religion that Orlando Patterson developed in Slavery and Social Death, particularly his pioneering claim that “the special version of Protestantism” which arose in the American South as slave religion was, in key respects, theologically “identical” to Catholicism.

Methodist Domesticity and Middle-Class Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century England

1998 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 323-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Tosh
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Victorian England ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Dominant Influence ◽  
Women’S History

The history of the family, at least for the nineteenth century, has reached a certain maturity. Though not yet incorporated into mainstream history – that would be too much to expect – it now boasts a considerable specialist literature and some useful general surveys. Undoubtedly the driving force has been the aspiration of women’s history to reconstruct the lives of women in the past. Now that the personal records of women are being studied with such attention, there is a wealth of insights into their experience as daughters, wives, and widows. Jeanne Peterson’s account of the Paget family and their circle in Victorian England is a typical example. For the nineteenth-century women’s historian, there is the added bonus that this was the period when the claims of women to have the dominant influence in the family were taken most seriously – as witness the persistent appeal of the Angel Mother. Hence to research the history of the Victorian family promises results which will feature women as agents, and not merely as victims of patriarchal oppression.

scholarly journals Editorial

Transfers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Stéphanie Ponsavady
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
American South ◽  
Auto Industry ◽  
Social Costs ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Railway System ◽  
The American South

True to our original mission, this new issue of Transfers brings together a plurality of disciplines, from history to anthropology and literary criticism. It showcases reactions to the current pandemic as well as far-reaching reflections on the meanings of mobility. Bracketing our issue, two articles engage with the history of mobility. Drawing our attention to the extent of the automobility system, in “The Freeway Journey: Landscape and Mobility in the Southern Auto Industry,” John E. Mohr questions the economic and social costs of developing the I-85 highway corridor through the American South. Hugo Silveira Pereira interrogates “The Past, Present, and Future of Peripheral Mobilities in Portugal” through a history of the Portuguese narrow-gauge railway system that spans over a century.

scholarly journals Gender Bias in Historiography of Indonesia and the Writing of Women's History

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Mutiah Amini
Keyword(s):  
Gender Bias ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
The Past ◽  
Patriarchal Culture ◽  
Historical Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women’S History ◽  
As If

<p>This paper discusses gender bias within the Indonesian historiography tradition. Various historical literature records that all major events in Indonesian history–as a nation–are masculine and strongly dominated by male narratives. There is no space for women to be present in the narratives of the past. As if the history of Indonesia is a history of men, whereas if critical research is done then women such as men have a past narrative that is also important. Women are present and give meaning to the development of the nation's history. This matter is absent in Indonesian historiography. The strength of gender bias in the historiography of Indonesia can not be separated from the strong patriarchal culture in the life of society. Thus the gender bias ultimately forms a canon, so this is then reproduced from generation to generation. This article argues that critical research by revealing a new fact is a power to change gender bias in Indonesian historiography.</p><p> </p>

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