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Considering The “Special Considerations”: The Treatment Of Female Inmates In The People’S Republic Of China Since 1994, Niklas Berry Apr 2024

Considering The “Special Considerations”: The Treatment Of Female Inmates In The People’S Republic Of China Since 1994, Niklas Berry

Madison Historical Review

The purpose of this paper is to historicize contemporary gendered legal practices in the People’s Republic of China and to demonstrate that, despite rhetoric to the contrary, paternalistic assumptions rooted in Confucianism still inform the treatment of female prisoners today. Though China underwent massive political and economic shifts after the formation of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 and the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, certain longstanding societal principles were preserved in modern China, including long-held paternalistic stereotypes about the physical and mental fragility of women. These precepts undergirded the PRC’s reforms of its judicial and criminal systems …


Letter From The Editor, Anthony Green Apr 2019

Letter From The Editor, Anthony Green

Madison Historical Review

Letter acknowledging editorial board and previewing this years journal


Interview With Danielle Dybbro, Danielle Dybbro Apr 2018

Interview With Danielle Dybbro, Danielle Dybbro

Madison Historical Review

Interview with Danielle Dybbro, Winner of the 2018 James Madison Award for Excellence in Historical Scholarship


Note From The Editorial Board, Rachel Carey, Trevor Cooper, Daniel Dawson, Joshua Goodall, Blake Bergstrom, Craig Schaefer, Brandon Durbin Apr 2018

Note From The Editorial Board, Rachel Carey, Trevor Cooper, Daniel Dawson, Joshua Goodall, Blake Bergstrom, Craig Schaefer, Brandon Durbin

Madison Historical Review

The Editorial Board of the Madison Historical Review is proud to present the fifteenth volume of our annual publication of graduate historical research. We are excited by the number of works we received this year that all show the vast amount of scholarship being produced across the country by our peers. The Madison Historical Review serves as one of the only graduate student-operated journals that features the works of our fellow historians-in-training. This year, the journal features three articles that cover vastly different aspects of the past, and help to convey the wide array of current historical scholarship being produced …


Book Review: Lenape Country: Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn, Erich M. Huhn Apr 2016

Book Review: Lenape Country: Delaware Valley Society Before William Penn, Erich M. Huhn

Madison Historical Review

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Making Rocky Mountain National Park, Ian Brickey May 2015

Book Review: Making Rocky Mountain National Park, Ian Brickey

Madison Historical Review

No abstract provided.