Dorota M. Dutsch
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199533381
- eISBN:
- 9780191714757
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199533381.003.0004
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter is concerned with the instability of gender boundaries in comedy and with the gendering of instability in Roman culture. After a brief discussion of comedy's association of modus with ...
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This chapter is concerned with the instability of gender boundaries in comedy and with the gendering of instability in Roman culture. After a brief discussion of comedy's association of modus with masculinity, it turns to those instances in which the scripts of Plautus graft (allegedly) masculine attitudes onto feminine utterances or vice versa. The blending of genders in comedy is then compared with the rhetoric surrounding the suppression (in 186 BCE) of the Bacchic cult, which was criticized for endangering the masculinity of its initiates. It argues that Plautine comedy stresses the instability of gender roles and can be read as one voice adding to a larger ongoing debate on gender and boundaries.Less
This chapter is concerned with the instability of gender boundaries in comedy and with the gendering of instability in Roman culture. After a brief discussion of comedy's association of modus with masculinity, it turns to those instances in which the scripts of Plautus graft (allegedly) masculine attitudes onto feminine utterances or vice versa. The blending of genders in comedy is then compared with the rhetoric surrounding the suppression (in 186 BCE) of the Bacchic cult, which was criticized for endangering the masculinity of its initiates. It argues that Plautine comedy stresses the instability of gender roles and can be read as one voice adding to a larger ongoing debate on gender and boundaries.
H. L. Meakin
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198184553
- eISBN:
- 9780191674297
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198184553.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on John Donne's articulation of the feminine in his prose and poetry. It suggests that Donne is more than the masculine monolith which has been ...
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This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on John Donne's articulation of the feminine in his prose and poetry. It suggests that Donne is more than the masculine monolith which has been part of the almost casual observance in criticism of his prose and poetry. It argues that there are valid grounds for extending Donne's reputation for originality and iconoclasm to his construction of gender. This is particularly true in his exploration of lesbian love and the fluidity of gender boundaries in his poems and early verse letters.Less
This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on John Donne's articulation of the feminine in his prose and poetry. It suggests that Donne is more than the masculine monolith which has been part of the almost casual observance in criticism of his prose and poetry. It argues that there are valid grounds for extending Donne's reputation for originality and iconoclasm to his construction of gender. This is particularly true in his exploration of lesbian love and the fluidity of gender boundaries in his poems and early verse letters.
Michele Gillespie
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195112436
- eISBN:
- 9780199854271
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195112436.003.0013
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
Mary Musgrove, the adult daughter of a Tuckabachee Creek woman and a white Carolina trader, was insulted at her exclusion in a meeting at the Savannah. She was the progeny of an interracial sexual ...
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Mary Musgrove, the adult daughter of a Tuckabachee Creek woman and a white Carolina trader, was insulted at her exclusion in a meeting at the Savannah. She was the progeny of an interracial sexual relationship between a Creek woman and an English man. Such unions aided the exchange of cultures that hastened both English colonization and Native American acculturation in the southeastern North America in the 18th century. She carefully cultivated her identity in response to the racial and gendered boundaries she encountered in the colonial culture of Georgia. Musgrove's life exemplifies the process of colonization and the importance of shifting racial and gendered boundaries in that process. Her experiences demonstrate how and on what terms the English colonizers dominated and excluded from the increasingly hierarchical world they were constructing those individuals and social groups who proved most threatening to the establishment of their authority.Less
Mary Musgrove, the adult daughter of a Tuckabachee Creek woman and a white Carolina trader, was insulted at her exclusion in a meeting at the Savannah. She was the progeny of an interracial sexual relationship between a Creek woman and an English man. Such unions aided the exchange of cultures that hastened both English colonization and Native American acculturation in the southeastern North America in the 18th century. She carefully cultivated her identity in response to the racial and gendered boundaries she encountered in the colonial culture of Georgia. Musgrove's life exemplifies the process of colonization and the importance of shifting racial and gendered boundaries in that process. Her experiences demonstrate how and on what terms the English colonizers dominated and excluded from the increasingly hierarchical world they were constructing those individuals and social groups who proved most threatening to the establishment of their authority.
HYAEWEOL CHOI
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520098695
- eISBN:
- 9780520943780
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520098695.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
One of the most shocking realities that early missionaries found in Korea was the seclusion of women. Korean women were forbidden to go out and contribute to the prosperity of their society. They ...
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One of the most shocking realities that early missionaries found in Korea was the seclusion of women. Korean women were forbidden to go out and contribute to the prosperity of their society. They were confined to their own private homes, and this practice of seclusion and separation of the genders was the central illustration of the shockingly oppressive lifestyle that the Korean women led. This kind of practice was not known in Korea before the Choson dynasty came with the “Confucian transformation of Korea” that set the gender boundary. This chapter examines the ways in which the different social and cultural norms about women's proper domain held by the Korean and American missionaries were challenged, negotiated, and reshaped through their trans-cultural encounters. It traces the shifting and intersecting notions of the public and the private as a site of contest in refashioning gender ideology.Less
One of the most shocking realities that early missionaries found in Korea was the seclusion of women. Korean women were forbidden to go out and contribute to the prosperity of their society. They were confined to their own private homes, and this practice of seclusion and separation of the genders was the central illustration of the shockingly oppressive lifestyle that the Korean women led. This kind of practice was not known in Korea before the Choson dynasty came with the “Confucian transformation of Korea” that set the gender boundary. This chapter examines the ways in which the different social and cultural norms about women's proper domain held by the Korean and American missionaries were challenged, negotiated, and reshaped through their trans-cultural encounters. It traces the shifting and intersecting notions of the public and the private as a site of contest in refashioning gender ideology.
Jane Brooks
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781526119063
- eISBN:
- 9781526138811
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526119063.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Negotiating nursing explores how the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.s) salvaged men within the sensitive gender negotiations of what should and could constitute nursing work ...
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Negotiating nursing explores how the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.s) salvaged men within the sensitive gender negotiations of what should and could constitute nursing work and where that work could occur. The book argues that the Q.A.s, an entirely female force during the Second World War, were essential to recovering men physically, emotionally and spiritually from the battlefield and for the war, despite concerns about their presence on the frontline. The book maps the developments in nurses’ work as the Q.A.s created a legitimate space for themselves in war zones and established nurses’ position as the expert at the bedside. Using a range of personal testimony the book demonstrates how the exigencies of war demanded nurses alter the methods of nursing practice and the professional boundaries in which they had traditionally worked, in order to care for their soldier-patients in the challenging environments of a war zone. Although they may have transformed practice, their position in war was highly gendered and it was gender in the post-war era that prevented their considerable skills from being transferred to the new welfare state, as the women of Britain were returned to the home and hearth. The aftermath of war may therefore have augured professional disappointment for some nursing sisters, yet their contribution to nursing knowledge and practice was, and remains, significant.Less
Negotiating nursing explores how the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.s) salvaged men within the sensitive gender negotiations of what should and could constitute nursing work and where that work could occur. The book argues that the Q.A.s, an entirely female force during the Second World War, were essential to recovering men physically, emotionally and spiritually from the battlefield and for the war, despite concerns about their presence on the frontline. The book maps the developments in nurses’ work as the Q.A.s created a legitimate space for themselves in war zones and established nurses’ position as the expert at the bedside. Using a range of personal testimony the book demonstrates how the exigencies of war demanded nurses alter the methods of nursing practice and the professional boundaries in which they had traditionally worked, in order to care for their soldier-patients in the challenging environments of a war zone. Although they may have transformed practice, their position in war was highly gendered and it was gender in the post-war era that prevented their considerable skills from being transferred to the new welfare state, as the women of Britain were returned to the home and hearth. The aftermath of war may therefore have augured professional disappointment for some nursing sisters, yet their contribution to nursing knowledge and practice was, and remains, significant.
Christina Sunardi
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252038952
- eISBN:
- 9780252096914
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252038952.003.0003
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
This chapter explores some of the ways in which male dancers who performed female style dance (or had performed female style dance prior to the author's fieldwork) have been pushing at dominant ...
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This chapter explores some of the ways in which male dancers who performed female style dance (or had performed female style dance prior to the author's fieldwork) have been pushing at dominant conceptual and physical boundaries of gender and sex by expressing, embodying, and representing male femininity in diverse ways on- and offstage. It argues that male dancers, in so doing, have been contributing to the ongoing cultural production of tradition and maintaining cultural space for males to access and make visible the magnetic power of femaleness. The ways male dancers negotiated boundaries of gender are shown through the ways they talk about various cultural pressures, indicating ways they contend with official discourses of gender.Less
This chapter explores some of the ways in which male dancers who performed female style dance (or had performed female style dance prior to the author's fieldwork) have been pushing at dominant conceptual and physical boundaries of gender and sex by expressing, embodying, and representing male femininity in diverse ways on- and offstage. It argues that male dancers, in so doing, have been contributing to the ongoing cultural production of tradition and maintaining cultural space for males to access and make visible the magnetic power of femaleness. The ways male dancers negotiated boundaries of gender are shown through the ways they talk about various cultural pressures, indicating ways they contend with official discourses of gender.
Lisa Tiersten
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520225299
- eISBN:
- 9780520925656
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520225299.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This introductory chapter explains the theme of this volume, which is about the antagonism between the marketplace and the French Republic. This book examines the contests over the meanings of the ...
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This introductory chapter explains the theme of this volume, which is about the antagonism between the marketplace and the French Republic. This book examines the contests over the meanings of the marketplace and the larger cultural and political transformations in fin-de-siècle France and explores the French encounter with consumer culture by situating fin-de-siècle controversies about taste and the bourgeois Parisienne within a larger struggle over the meaning of the market and the gendered nature of the bourgeois order. It argues that debates about the female consumer were about more than gender boundaries because they illuminate the relationship between the market and the republic and, more broadly, the modern individual and the community.Less
This introductory chapter explains the theme of this volume, which is about the antagonism between the marketplace and the French Republic. This book examines the contests over the meanings of the marketplace and the larger cultural and political transformations in fin-de-siècle France and explores the French encounter with consumer culture by situating fin-de-siècle controversies about taste and the bourgeois Parisienne within a larger struggle over the meaning of the market and the gendered nature of the bourgeois order. It argues that debates about the female consumer were about more than gender boundaries because they illuminate the relationship between the market and the republic and, more broadly, the modern individual and the community.
Peter La Chapelle
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520248885
- eISBN:
- 9780520940000
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520248885.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
This chapter suggests that cultural borrowings and musical syncretism proliferated during wartime as local performers perfected their own version of western swing, a jazz-influenced country ...
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This chapter suggests that cultural borrowings and musical syncretism proliferated during wartime as local performers perfected their own version of western swing, a jazz-influenced country performance style originating in Texas and Oklahoma. It allowed migrants to test gender boundaries; dabble in African American, Latino, and immigrant musical traditions; and figuratively reshape themselves into worldly cosmopolitans and urban sophisticates, the Okie hepcats and rhythm kings. The relatively loose organizational structures of live radio and ballroom performances gave performers room to experiment with the more liberal threads of the New Deal and even some degree of racial egalitarianism.Less
This chapter suggests that cultural borrowings and musical syncretism proliferated during wartime as local performers perfected their own version of western swing, a jazz-influenced country performance style originating in Texas and Oklahoma. It allowed migrants to test gender boundaries; dabble in African American, Latino, and immigrant musical traditions; and figuratively reshape themselves into worldly cosmopolitans and urban sophisticates, the Okie hepcats and rhythm kings. The relatively loose organizational structures of live radio and ballroom performances gave performers room to experiment with the more liberal threads of the New Deal and even some degree of racial egalitarianism.
Sylvia D. Hoffert
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807828816
- eISBN:
- 9781469603612
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807875889_hoffert.11
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
Jane Grey Swisshelm is a well-known journalist in mid-nineteenth century America who was very dedicated to the cause of women's rights throughout her career. She argued in her editorials that women ...
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Jane Grey Swisshelm is a well-known journalist in mid-nineteenth century America who was very dedicated to the cause of women's rights throughout her career. She argued in her editorials that women have the right to their property and their children, to vote and run for office, and to receive equal pay for equal work. This book demonstrates that while she struggled in private to be a dutiful daughter, wife, mother, and housekeeper, she was able to transgress gender boundaries and place herself in the male world of commerce, journalism, and politics.Less
Jane Grey Swisshelm is a well-known journalist in mid-nineteenth century America who was very dedicated to the cause of women's rights throughout her career. She argued in her editorials that women have the right to their property and their children, to vote and run for office, and to receive equal pay for equal work. This book demonstrates that while she struggled in private to be a dutiful daughter, wife, mother, and housekeeper, she was able to transgress gender boundaries and place herself in the male world of commerce, journalism, and politics.
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226720159
- eISBN:
- 9780226720166
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226720166.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, World Medieval History
Most of the sources of the political and narrative history of Late Antiquity and early Byzantium treat eunuchs with hostility and suspicion. By the ninth through the twelfth centuries, as attitudes ...
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Most of the sources of the political and narrative history of Late Antiquity and early Byzantium treat eunuchs with hostility and suspicion. By the ninth through the twelfth centuries, as attitudes toward eunuchs changed, their gender construct had become more elaborate, and eunuchs were visible in many prominent roles. This chapter looks at some of the evidence for that shift, especially where eunuchs appear as protagonists in the military and political arenas. The roles of eunuchs such as Basil Lekapenos are well known. These powerful court eunuchs filled important roles as confidants and surrogate bearers of imperial power. The sources reveal a number of trusted court eunuchs who held important positions as generals and admirals, and who led major campaigns, acting as protagonists. Some were brilliant successes and others were dismal failures, but there is little to suggest that the ratio of success to failure was any different among generals who were whole men. Moreover, eunuchs continued to be given military and naval commands throughout the period.Less
Most of the sources of the political and narrative history of Late Antiquity and early Byzantium treat eunuchs with hostility and suspicion. By the ninth through the twelfth centuries, as attitudes toward eunuchs changed, their gender construct had become more elaborate, and eunuchs were visible in many prominent roles. This chapter looks at some of the evidence for that shift, especially where eunuchs appear as protagonists in the military and political arenas. The roles of eunuchs such as Basil Lekapenos are well known. These powerful court eunuchs filled important roles as confidants and surrogate bearers of imperial power. The sources reveal a number of trusted court eunuchs who held important positions as generals and admirals, and who led major campaigns, acting as protagonists. Some were brilliant successes and others were dismal failures, but there is little to suggest that the ratio of success to failure was any different among generals who were whole men. Moreover, eunuchs continued to be given military and naval commands throughout the period.
Keith McMahon
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824833763
- eISBN:
- 9780824870805
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824833763.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter focuses on the notion of qing, “sublime passion,” and the remarkable woman in the late-Ming and early- to mid-Qing literature. The idealization of the woman has a long history in China, ...
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This chapter focuses on the notion of qing, “sublime passion,” and the remarkable woman in the late-Ming and early- to mid-Qing literature. The idealization of the woman has a long history in China, but in the late Ming it had received a new burst of energy under the influence of this notion. The term evokes a sense of universality that lifts all burdens of social hierarchy and individual constraint. It is an equalizer, however, that does not extend to the real world outside qing's glowing environs. Real women patterned their behavior after the prescribed models of feminine behavior, and they also suffered the pressures and condemnations directed at them in case of deviation from the norms. Their ordeals are the focus of qing-inspired male authors who create scenarios in which the inherent imbalances of social and gender boundaries fleetingly evaporate.Less
This chapter focuses on the notion of qing, “sublime passion,” and the remarkable woman in the late-Ming and early- to mid-Qing literature. The idealization of the woman has a long history in China, but in the late Ming it had received a new burst of energy under the influence of this notion. The term evokes a sense of universality that lifts all burdens of social hierarchy and individual constraint. It is an equalizer, however, that does not extend to the real world outside qing's glowing environs. Real women patterned their behavior after the prescribed models of feminine behavior, and they also suffered the pressures and condemnations directed at them in case of deviation from the norms. Their ordeals are the focus of qing-inspired male authors who create scenarios in which the inherent imbalances of social and gender boundaries fleetingly evaporate.
Sylvia D. Hoffert
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807828816
- eISBN:
- 9781469603612
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807875889_hoffert.8
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Gender Studies
This chapter discusses Jane Grey Swisshelm's role in partisan politics in the mid-nineteenth century. When Jane pursued her interests in partisan politics, she was determined to see slavery abolished ...
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This chapter discusses Jane Grey Swisshelm's role in partisan politics in the mid-nineteenth century. When Jane pursued her interests in partisan politics, she was determined to see slavery abolished but had no confidence that either the Democrats or the Whigs could be counted on to take a strong stand against slavery. The chapter examines how Jane dealt with the challenges in partisan politics when she transgressed gender boundaries by intruding into the male world of political journalism. It also describes how Jane promoted the interests of Free Democracy in Pennsylvania and attempted to expand women's roles in society.Less
This chapter discusses Jane Grey Swisshelm's role in partisan politics in the mid-nineteenth century. When Jane pursued her interests in partisan politics, she was determined to see slavery abolished but had no confidence that either the Democrats or the Whigs could be counted on to take a strong stand against slavery. The chapter examines how Jane dealt with the challenges in partisan politics when she transgressed gender boundaries by intruding into the male world of political journalism. It also describes how Jane promoted the interests of Free Democracy in Pennsylvania and attempted to expand women's roles in society.
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226467429
- eISBN:
- 9780226470023
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226470023.003.0015
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the effects and after effects of World War II on fatherhood in the U.S. It offers suggestions on how best one can understand the history culture ...
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This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the effects and after effects of World War II on fatherhood in the U.S. It offers suggestions on how best one can understand the history culture and conduct of fatherhood in America. This chapter examines how the war further reified lore and law and led to the creation of more sharply delineated gender and sexual boundaries and evaluates how the brutality of combat affected the men who lived through it.Less
This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on the effects and after effects of World War II on fatherhood in the U.S. It offers suggestions on how best one can understand the history culture and conduct of fatherhood in America. This chapter examines how the war further reified lore and law and led to the creation of more sharply delineated gender and sexual boundaries and evaluates how the brutality of combat affected the men who lived through it.
