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Humanities & Social Sciences

September 2018

Learning femininity in colonial India, 1820–1932

by Tim Allender, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

Learning femininity in colonial India explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932. Using a broad framework the book examines the many life experiences of these women and how their position changed, both personally and professionally, over this long period of study. Drawing on a rich documentary record from archives in the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, North America, Ireland and Australia this book builds a clear picture of the colonial-configured changes that influenced women interacting with the colonial state. This book will appeal to students and academics working on the history of empire and imperialism, gender studies, postcolonial studies and the history of education.

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Literature & Literary Studies

November 2021

Practising shame

Female honour in later medieval England

by Mary C. Flannery, Anke Bernau, David Matthews

Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame. A combination of inward reflection and outward comportment, this practice of 'shamefastness' was believed to reinforce women's chastity of mind and body, and to communicate that chastity to others by means of conventional gestures. The book uncovers the paradoxes and complications that emerged from these emotional practices, as well as the ways in which they were satirised and reappropriated by male authors. Working at the intersection of literary studies, gender studies and the history of emotions, it transforms our understanding of the ethical construction of femininity in the past and provides a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

May 2020

Imagining Caribbean womanhood

Race, nation and beauty competitions, 1929–70

by Pamela Sharpe, Rochelle Rowe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie

Over fifty years after Jamaican and Trinidadian independence, Imagining Caribbean womanhood examines the links between beauty and politics in the Anglophone Caribbean, providing a first cultural history of Caribbean beauty competitions, spanning from Kingston to London. It traces the origins and transformation of female beauty contests in the British Caribbean from 1929 to 1970, through the development of cultural nationalism, race-conscious politics and decolonisation. The beauty contest, a seemingly marginal phenomenon, is used to illuminate the persistence of racial supremacy, the advance of consumer culture and the negotiation of race and nation through the idealised performance of cultured, modern beauty. Modern Caribbean femininity was intended to be politically functional but also commercially viable and subtly eroticised.

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Literature & Literary Studies

February 2000

Feminism, femininity and popular culture

by Joanne Hollows

Accessible, introductory student guide which identifies key feminist approaches to popular culture from the 1960s to the present.. The only introduction to both feminist cultural studies and feminism and popular culture published in the UK.. Presents its information in a reader friendly series of case studies on: women's film romantic fiction soap opera consumption and material culture fashion and beauty proactices youth culture and popular music. Will appeal to students across a wide range of disciplines as a variety of popular cultural forms are discussed. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

May 2016

Learning femininity in colonial India, 1820–1932

by Tim Allender, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

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Literature & Literary Studies

June 2017

Gothic forms of feminine fictions

by Susanne Becker

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Humanities & Social Sciences

September 2020

Queer Muslim diasporas in contemporary literature and film

by Alberto Fernández Carbajal, Amina Yaqin

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Literature & Literary Studies

November 2019

Practicing shame

by Mary C. Flannery, Anke Bernau, David Matthews

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2026

Ageing and new intimacies

by Sarah Milton

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Literature & Literary Studies

June 2017

Over her dead body

by Elisabeth Bronfen

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Literature & Literary Studies

April 2026

Re-examining nineteenth-century Easts

Gendered narratives of encounter

by Claudia Capancioni, Julia Kuehn, Mariaconcetta Costantini

Re-examining nineteenth-century Eastscontributes novel approaches to gendered and gendering fictions and travel writing in and of the cultural-geographical-ideological contexts surrounding nineteenth-century Easts. It examines underexplored stories of travel and narratives of encounter to reconsider the western allure of travelling to the Easts - from the Balkans to the Middle and Far East, through a range of diverse critical approaches. It discusses writers - travellers, novelists, and short-story writers - who authored texts based on their varied experiences in eastern lands. It also analyses how views of eastern places became a rich source of material for identity formations related to Empire but also discussions about masculinity and femininity at 'home'.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

August 2023

Forensic cultures in modern Europe

by Willemijn Ruberg, Lara Bergers, Pauline Dirven, Sara Serrano Martínez

This edited volume examines the performance and role of scientific experts in modern European courts of law and police investigations. It discusses cases from criminal, civil and international law to parse the impact of forensic evidence and expertise in different European countries. The contributors show how modern forensic science and technology are inextricably entangled with political ideology, gender norms and changes in the law and legal systems. Discussing fascinating case studies, they highlight how the ideology of authoritarian and liberal regimes has affected the practical enactment of forensic expertise. They also emphasise the influence of images of masculinity and femininity on the performance of experts and on their assessment of evidence, victims and perpetrators. This book is an important contribution to our knowledge of modern European forensic practices.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

May 2000

Smoking in British popular culture 1800–2000

by Matthew Hilton, Jeffrey Richards

A concise history of smoking in British popular culture from the early nineteenth century to the present day.. Provides the historical backdrop to the current debates about the politics of tobacco and health, demonstrating that both pro- and anti-smokers have consistently failed to understand the position of smoking within popular culture.. Important themes explored include: the importance of consumption to constructions of masculinity and femininity, the role of the state in the official regulation of the 'minor vices', the morality of consumption and the position of scientific knowledge within popular culture.. Traces the production, promotion and consumption of tobacco as well as outlining the arguments that have variously opposed this ever-controversial drug.. Genuinely interdisciplinary, combining elements of social, cultural and economic history whilst contributing to debates in sociology and cultural studies, the anthropology of material culture, design history, medical history and public health policy. ;

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Literature & Literary Studies

June 2017

European Gothic

by Avril Horner

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Humanities & Social Sciences

November 2012

Gender, crime and empire

convicts, settlers and the state in early colonial Australia

by Kirsty Reid, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Martin Hargreaves

Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land. Revising established models of the colonies, which tend to depict convict women as a peculiarly oppressed group, Gender, crime and empire argues that convict men and women in fact shared much in common. Placing men and women, ideas about masculinity, femininity, sexuality and the body, in comparative perspective, this book argues that historians must take fuller account of class to understand the relationships between gender and power. The book explores the ways in which ideas about fatherhood and household order initially informed the state's model of order, and the reasons why this foundered. It considers the shifting nature of state policies towards courtship, relationships and attempts at family formation which subsequently became matters of class conflict. It goes on to explore the ways in which ideas about gender and family informed liberal and humanitarian critiques of the colonies from the 1830s and 1840s and colonial demands for abolition and self-government. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

June 2011

Destined for a Life of Service

Defining African–Jamaican womanhood, 1865–1938

by Henrice Altink, Pamela Sharpe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie

Based on a wide range of original sources, including folktales, anthropological studies, court statements, poetry and speeches, this book sheds new light on the struggle of people of African descent for full and equal citizenship in the post-emancipation British Caribbean. It examines the messages that African-Jamaican women were given about their place and roles from within and outside their own community, the extent to which these messages intersected with class and colour ideologies, and African-Jamaican women's attempts to realise these ideals of femininity amidst various constraints. Incorporating the full realm of African-Jamaican women's experiences, exploring not just their sexuality and reproduction but also their roles as labourers, citizens and freedom fighters, the book also links shifting gender ideologies to citizenship, race and nation. Essential reading for undergraduates and graduates interested in gender within the British Caribbean during the critical transformative period between 1865 and 1938, it will also interest political scientists and other scholars working on questions of nationalism, transnationalism and the gendered nature of citizenship. ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2017

Gender, crime and empire

Convicts, settlers and the state in early colonial Australia

by Kirsty Reid, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Martin Hargreaves

Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land. Revising established models of the colonies, which tend to depict convict women as a peculiarly oppressed group, Gender, crime and empire argues that convict men and women in fact shared much in common. Placing men and women, ideas about masculinity, femininity, sexuality and the body, in comparative perspective, this book argues that historians must take fuller account of class to understand the relationships between gender and power. The book explores the ways in which ideas about fatherhood and household order initially informed the state's model of order, and the reasons why this foundered. It considers the shifting nature of state policies towards courtship, relationships and attempts at family formation which subsequently became matters of class conflict. It goes on to explore the ways in which ideas about gender and family informed liberal and humanitarian critiques of the colonies from the 1830s and 1840s and colonial demands for abolition and self-government.

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The Arts

November 2011

Nationalising Femininity

Culture, sexuality and British cinema in the Second World War

by Christine Gledhill

Case studies examine competing definitions of feminism, contoured by The Second World War, circulating in cinema, women's magazines, social policies, government pamphlets, fashion, and broadcasting ;

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Humanities & Social Sciences

May 2016

Imagining Caribbean womanhood

by Rochelle Rowe, Pamela Sharpe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie

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Humanities & Social Sciences

May 2020

Women of war

by Juliette Pattinson, Penny Summerfield

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by Tim Allender, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

Female honour in later medieval England

by Mary C. Flannery, Anke Bernau, David Matthews

Race, nation and beauty competitions, 1929–70

by Pamela Sharpe, Rochelle Rowe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie

by Joanne Hollows

by Tim Allender, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie

by Susanne Becker

by Alberto Fernández Carbajal, Amina Yaqin

by Mary C. Flannery, Anke Bernau, David Matthews

by Sarah Milton

by Elisabeth Bronfen

Gendered narratives of encounter

by Claudia Capancioni, Julia Kuehn, Mariaconcetta Costantini

by Willemijn Ruberg, Lara Bergers, Pauline Dirven, Sara Serrano Martínez

by Matthew Hilton, Jeffrey Richards

by Avril Horner

convicts, settlers and the state in early colonial Australia

by Kirsty Reid, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Martin Hargreaves

Defining African–Jamaican womanhood, 1865–1938

by Henrice Altink, Pamela Sharpe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie

Convicts, settlers and the state in early colonial Australia

by Kirsty Reid, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Martin Hargreaves

Culture, sexuality and British cinema in the Second World War

by Christine Gledhill

by Rochelle Rowe, Pamela Sharpe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie

by Juliette Pattinson, Penny Summerfield

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