Journal of Women's History articles from January 2003

Journal of Women's History archives from January 2003

Revising the experiences of colonized women: beyond binaries. (Editor's Note).(Editorial)
January 1, 2003... In this volume, we present a number of essays intended to refocus debates about women and colonialism after some thirty years of historiography about this topic. When women's studies and women's history were beginning to engage in...

Yuwalaraay women and attachments to land on an Australian colonial frontier. (Caring For Country).(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2003... In the year 1905, Australian-born Katie Langloh Parker, at the time living in the South Australian city of Adelaide, had the pleasure of seeing her book The Euahlayi Tribe published. This work, of which she was quietly proud, drew on her...

Morals, harmony, and national identity: "companionate feminism" in colonial Indonesia in the 1930s.(sex roles and morality in colonial Indonesia)
January 1, 2003... This analysis of three debates among the Indonesian (mainly Javanese) elite of the 1930s illustrates what was meant by "iboe jang sedjati" or "the true women", in a decade of striving nationalism and a more outspoken feminist movement. The...

Emotion, identity, and the female subject: Tamil women's magazines in colonial India, 1890-1940.
January 1, 2003... This article examines women's magazines published in colonial India from the 1890s to the 1940s. Focusing on texts in the Tamil language, the author argues that these magazines developed a paradigm of emotion in which a discourse of love,...

IGO MMA OGO: the Adoro goddess, her wives, and challengers--influences on the reconstruction of Alor-Uno, Northern Igboland, 1890-1994.(Igbo culture and religious history)
January 1, 2003... The abolition of the transatlantic slave trade transformed indigenous societies on and around the Bight of Biafra. Internal "slavery," (1) however, continued unabated for many years in these parts, and the continuation of such slavery...

Boundaries of beauty: tattooed secrets of women's history in magude district, Southern Mozambique.
January 1, 2003... The Lenge and the Tsopi women have the story of their lives written on their own flesh.... E. Dora Earthy, VaIenge Women (1) This article explores women's experiences of Portuguese colonialism in southern Mozambique through their...

Public mothers: Native American and Metis women as Creole mediators in the nineteenth-century Midwest.
January 1, 2003... On the northwestern shore of Lake Michigan's Green Bay, where the Menominee River flows into the lake along an old fur trade route, there is a city straddling the border of Wisconsin and Michigan. This city, and the county that surrounds it,...

Dialogue: women and gender in modern India: historians, sources, and historiography.
January 1, 2003... This symposium resulted from an invitation to participate in a working [seminar entitled "Re-Envisioning Women's History" at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York held in March 1999. The objective was to link three generations...

Locating and preserving documents: the first step in writing women's history.
January 1, 2003... The Beginning I began my research career in India in 1969, and by 1970 1 was hooked on what has become my life's work. Early in 1970, I met Shudha Mazumdar, the great granddaughter of one of the founders of Hindu-Positivism, the subject of...

Moving from the margin and dissolving binaries: Indian and British women.(women's rights and social history)
January 1, 2003... Beginnings: Positivist Training and Temporal Context The pitfalls and tensions of historicizing one's scholarship and personal life were made dramatically apparent to me a few years ago when my department interviewed a candidate for a...

Rethinking boundaries: feminism and (inter) nationalism in early-twentieth-century India.
January 1, 2003... This essay interrogates the boundaries within which we locate our historical narratives to suggest a move towards interconnected histories. I argue for the need to rethink the interactions among feminisms and their relationships to imperial and...

South Asian women, gender, and transnationalism.
January 1, 2003... Each of these essays engages two major questions: 1) How do we retrieve the voices and historical experiences of those subjects not found in the official written record; and 2) What investigative tools and frames of reference should we use for...

The construction of empire: gender, race, and nation in Europe's imperial past.(three books on gender, race, and colonization)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Catherine Hall, ed. Cultures of Empire: Colonizers in Britain and the Empire in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: A Reader. New York: Routledge, 2000. x + 390 pp. ISBN 0-415-92906-7 (cl); 0-415-92907-5 (pb). Elsbeth Locher-Scholten....

Misbehaving women make history.("Wicked" Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Hodgson, Dorothy L., and Sheryl A. McCurdy, eds. "Wicked" Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2001. xii + 325 pp.; ill. ISBN 0-325-07005-9 (cl); 0-325-07004-0 (pb). On the wall over my desk I...

The meanings of protection: women in Colonial and colonizing Australia.(two books on the protection of women)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Jan Gothard. Blue China: Single Female Migration to Colonial Australia. Carlton South, Victoria: Melbourne University Press, 2001. xiii + 298 pp., tables. ISBN 0-522-84958-X (cl). Fiona Paisley. Loving Protection? Australian Feminism and...

A century of literary reflections on gender.( En-gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Post-colonial Narratives)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Sangeeta Ray. En-gendering India: Woman and Nation in Colonial and Post-colonial Narratives. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000. viii + 198 pp. ISBN 0-8223-2453-9 (cl); 0-8223-2490-3 (pb). Sangeeta Ray, a professor of English at the...