Gender and Animals in History
Yearbook of Women's History 42 (2023)
Published on 20. March 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-90-485-6528-3 (ISBN)
Description
The category of species has remained largely understudied in mainstream gender scholarship. This edition of the Yearbook of Women's History attempts to show how gender history can be enriched through the study of animals. It highlights that the inclusion of nonhuman animals in historical work has the potential to revolutionize the ways we think about gender history. This volume is expansive in more than one way. First, it is global and transhistorical in its outlook, bringing together perspectives from the Global North and the Global South, and moving from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. Even more importantly for its purposes, a range of animals appear in the contributions: from the smallest insects to great apes, and from 'cute' kittens to riot dogs and lions. The articles collected here reflect the variety of the animal kingdom and of the creative approaches enabled by animal history.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
580 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-485-6528-3 (9789048565283)
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Persons
Sandra Swart is professor and chair of the Department of History at Stel?lenbosch University, South Africa. She received her DPhil in Modern History from Oxford University in 2001, while simultaneously obtaining an MSc in Environmental Change and Management, also at Oxford. She studies the socio-environmental history of southern Africa, focusing on animals. She is an editor of the Brill book series African and Asian Anthropocene: Studies in the Environmental Humanities and co-vice president of the European Society for Environmental History. She has authored/co-authored over 80 articles and chapters.
Content
Editorial, Birds of a Feather , Martha Maxwell on the Frontier of Colorado, Modern Taxidermy, and 'Women's Work', Animal Displays, Gender, Race, and Pedagogy at Liverpool Museum, Circa 1880-1920, Keeping Animals in Their Gendered Place, Insects at the Intersection of Gender and Class in the Early Modern Period, Perfect Mothers and Stunted Workers, Milk and Honey, Engendered Primatology, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and the Erotohistoriography of Pets, Riot Dogs as Gendered Revolutionary Symbols, From Pussy Panic to a Fascination with Felines, Cats and the Vegetarian Dish in Colonial and Postcolonial Indonesia, Naturalizing Collaboration, Of Bits and Pieces, Reproduction against Extinction, A View From the Saddle, Riding out the Plague Years with Eroika, Gender and Intersectionality in Agriculture on Three Continents