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Augusta Webster’s Poetic Challenge
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- Murphy, Patricia
Augusta Webster’s Poetic Challenge
Although Augusta Webster wrote numerous nature poems that follow a more conventional trajectory, the four poems investigated in this essay illustrate difference by pointing to the unique aspects of women’s experience and allowing the oppression of conventional Victorian women to stand apart from the workings of nature.- Creator
- Murphy, Patricia
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Ideal versus reality? The domesticity ideal and household labour relations in Dutch industrializing regions, circa 1890,
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- Boter, Corinne
Ideal versus reality? The domesticity ideal and household labour relations in Dutch industrializing regions, circa 1890,
'For long, international comparisons of female labour force participation (FLFP) have been based on aggregate source material, most notably censuses. However, the lion’s share of today’s historians agree that censuses have systematically underreported women’s work activities. Consequently, scholars relying on this source have found a nineteenth-century Dutch male breadwinner society while others have found that the Dutch female labour force was quite extensive. This discrepancy in the historiography is in need of closer scrutiny. The current study shows that by the end of the nineteenth century, in industrial regions married women indeed withdrew from the registered labour market but instead engaged in other types of labour relations that could easily be combined with homemaking duties and that remained invisible in the census. Furthermore, this article argues that the fact that married women provided an income did not necessarily contradict the growing ideal of domesticity. The alternative types of work married women took up were rather a way of reconciling this ideal with keeping the household on a respectable level of existence.'- Creator
- Boter, Corinne
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My Sable IngraminaÔÇÖ: Queering Colonial Gender Roles in Mary KingsleyÔÇÖs Travels in West Africa
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- Kelly, Alice M.
My Sable IngraminaÔÇÖ: Queering Colonial Gender Roles in Mary KingsleyÔÇÖs Travels in West Africa
The author argues on former research by Coilkowski and Blunt on gender roles mentioned in Mary KingsleyÔÇÖs Travels in West Africa (1897).- Creator
- Kelly, Alice M.
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Turn of the Century WomenÔÇÖs Poetry: Skirting the Problems of Periodization
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- Richardson, LeeAnne M.
Turn of the Century WomenÔÇÖs Poetry: Skirting the Problems of Periodization
This essay proposes a paradigm shift in the way late-nineteenth century womenÔÇÖs poetry is analyzed.- Creator
- Richardson, LeeAnne M.
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Vrouwen in de Rijkswerkinrichting en het Damescomité tot Zedelijke Verbetering van de Gevangenen 1892-1918
Vrouwen in de Rijkswerkinrichting en het Damescomité tot Zedelijke Verbetering van de Gevangenen 1892-1918
Bedelaars, zwervers en dronkaards konden bij overlast vanaf het laatste kwart van de 19e eeuw gevangen worden gezet in een Rijkswerkinrichting (RWI). Één van de grondslagen van de damescomités was het idee dat vrouwen beter dan mannen hun seksegenoten kunnen begrijpen en begeleiden. In dit artikel gaat auteur o.a. in op de problemen en behoeften die de RWI-vrouwen hadden en de oplossingen die het damescomité bood. -
Verhulde verlangens
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- Franzen, Charlotte
Verhulde verlangens
Het schilderij Sappho en Alcaeus van Lawrence Alma-Tadema lijkt op het eerste gezicht een intieme muziekvoorstelling uit de Griekse oudheid. Als het schilderij beter bekeken wordt ziet men dat het een afbeelding van versluierde lesbische liefde is die aansluit bij victoriaanse ideeën over muziek, gender en homoseksualiteit.- Creator
- Franzen, Charlotte
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New Writings in Feminist and Women’s Studies Winning and Short-listed Entries from the 2016 Feminist and Women’s Studies Association’s Annual Student Essay Competition [Special]
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- Cattien, Jana
- Dobson, Eleanor
- Luta, Isabella
- Frankfurth, Yvonne
- Tse, Kelly Yin Nga
- Mazanderani, Fawzia Haeri
New Writings in Feminist and Women’s Studies Winning and Short-listed Entries from the 2016 Feminist and Women’s Studies Association’s Annual Student Essay Competition [Special]
In her paper Jane Cattien takes postmodern and intersectional critiques of feminist standpoint theory as a critical point of departure to re-examine the debate around the relevance of the signifier “women” in feminist epistemology. Her aim is twofold: first, she seeks to shed new light on these criticisms by using the lived experiences of mixedrace women as an innovative lens through which to examine the issue of fragmentation in feminist epistemology. Eleanor Dobson examines the relationship between mummy fiction and the fairy-tale genre in the closing years of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth. Isabella Luta investigates the significance behind this change and explore how myth influenced medicine to tackle the question of why ‘Nymphomania’ became the preferred term for excessive female sexuality in the 19th century. A substantial amount of literature dealing with conceptualisations of the nation has neglected the importance that gender and the politics of reproduction play in the construction of national identities. Analysing images of political campaigns and activists as well as public discourses on motherhood, abortion and childcare, Yvonne Frankfurth will illustrate the importance that gender and sexuality assumed in German nation-building projects before and after its unification in 1990. In her paper Kelly Yin Nga Tse critically examines post/feminist imperatives in relation to neoliberal ethos and class dynamics in The People’s Republic of Desire by transnational Chinese women writer, Annie Wang. While what comprises “feminist research methods” is subject to debate, research with a feminist orientation is often characterised by heightened reflexivity and a recognition of the subjective nature of knowledge claims. By drawing upon ethnographic research conducted among young people in post-apartheid South Africa, Fawzia Haeri Mazanderani interrogates the potential value of audio recordings or “voice notes” during fieldwork, in conjunction with the more traditional form of the fieldwork diary.- Creator
- Cattien, Jana
- Dobson, Eleanor
- Luta, Isabella
- Frankfurth, Yvonne
- Tse, Kelly Yin Nga
- Mazanderani, Fawzia Haeri
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Marriages are made in kitchens
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- Boter, Corinne
Marriages are made in kitchens
'Due to methodological difficulties of historical research on women’s labor, little is known of women’s contribution to household incomes in preindustrial economies. This article is the first to use domestic servants’ wages, as documented in account books from the period 1752–1805, to estimate the capital that women could accumulate during their years of service before marriage. As such, it offers a new perspective on women’s contribution to household resources. Results show that servants working for the most well-off households in eighteenth-century Amsterdam could save a marriage budget that was between one-third and half of the capital that an unskilled man could save in the same amount of time. Furthermore, servants’ wages would in theory have been sufficient to support a family of four at the subsistence level, illustrating that women’s wages and potential savings cannot be ignored.'- Creator
- Boter, Corinne
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Degrees of wokeness
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- Sian Goh, Li
Degrees of wokeness
The author has read Jane Eyre with a contemporary point of view and found a lot of examples of discrimination. For example the contrast between the Christian, civilized white woman (Jane) and mr. Rochester's wife with a mental illness, Bertha, who is a Creole woman or the difference in social class between Blanche (upperclass) and Jane (poor).- Creator
- Sian Goh, Li
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