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Veronica Porumbacu’S ‘Return From Cynthera’ (1966): A Conceptual Manifesto Of Socialist Feminism, Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu
Veronica Porumbacu’S ‘Return From Cynthera’ (1966): A Conceptual Manifesto Of Socialist Feminism, Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
Veronica Porumbacu (1921-1977) was a Romanian poet and translator who has been unjustly forgotten today due to her proletcultist poems of the 1950s. Yet her work was widely published and well-known during the socialist regime, and is especially relevant for the two decades of growth and ideological innovation of the 1960s and 1970s. In my article I analyze a remarkable volume of hers published in 1966, situating it in the context of her work and in the wider frame of the political context of Romania. I argue that Return from Cythera can be considered a conceptual manifesto of socialist feminism, …
100 Years After Suffrage: Just How Far Have Women Come?, Laura Merrifield Wilson
100 Years After Suffrage: Just How Far Have Women Come?, Laura Merrifield Wilson
Midwest Social Sciences Journal
Women earned the right to vote 100 years ago with the ratification of the 19th Amendment, effectively ending the suffrage movement that had transpired over generations. Their hard-won victory doubled the American electorate and provided women with an essential right of citizenship of which they had long been deprived. Not all women were welcomed at the polling place, though, and the exclusion of women of color, particularly in the Jim Crow South, revealed yet another barrier to eventually be struck down. In the 100 years since women earned their right to vote, they have begun “outvoting” their male counterparts and …
Textiles, Gender, And Materiality: A Response, Bettina Bildhauer
Textiles, Gender, And Materiality: A Response, Bettina Bildhauer
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This response outlines the predominant current conceptions of gendered materiality in contemporary theory (such as Karen Barad’s development of Judith Butler’s thought) and in medieval studies (such as work by Caroline Walker Bynum). It identifies and expands upon four themes from the two articles in the section that are pertinent to the descriptions of textiles and other material objects in a wider range of medieval texts and current medievalist scholarship: 1) the idea that textiles and other material things can have biographies; 2) the idea that textiles are today (but not necessarily in medieval writing) perceived as connective networks; 3) …
Making It Through The Wilderness: Trees As Markers Of Gendered Identities In Sir Orfeo, Danielle Howarth
Making It Through The Wilderness: Trees As Markers Of Gendered Identities In Sir Orfeo, Danielle Howarth
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Wood was an essential material in the Middle Ages, but trees – and human relationships with them – are too often ignored. Using trees as a lens through which to view medieval romance can provide us with a new perspective on the genre, on medieval gender norms, and on human relationships with the material non-human. This article focusses on the trees in the Middle English Sir Orfeo in order to interrogate how Orfeo’s identity is linked to trees and wooden objects. Although Orfeo’s harp is the most obvious wooden marker of his identity, the ympe-tree in Orfeo and Herodis’s orchard, …
"The Best A Man Can Be": Subverting Masculinity’S Excess(Es) In Medieval Texts, Liz Herbert Mcavoy
"The Best A Man Can Be": Subverting Masculinity’S Excess(Es) In Medieval Texts, Liz Herbert Mcavoy
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
This response piece situates the articles in the section within current trends in the study of medieval masculinities – including the reclamation of the “femfog” and scholarly work by Carolyn Dinshaw, Jack Halberstam and Mads Ravn – and within current discourse of what it means to “be a man” in popular culture, citing the 2019 Gillette advert “We Believe: The Best Men Can Be” and the “Time’s Up” and “Me Too” feminist movements. The response identifies a performative display of gender – termed ‘psuedomedieval masculinity’ – which borrows from medieval culture to ‘medievalise’ modern toxic masculinity. Using Halberstam’s idea of …
Objectifying Love: Ladies And Their Tokens, Saints And Their Relics In Chrétien De Troyes, Lydia Hayes
Objectifying Love: Ladies And Their Tokens, Saints And Their Relics In Chrétien De Troyes, Lydia Hayes
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Relics are powerful signifiers of the relationship between humanity and the divine because they allow humans to physically touch a part of a saint’s body or an extension of the saint’s body. This type of symbolism may also be found in the relationship between ladies and knights in Chrétien de Troyes’ Arthurian romances, when a part of the lady’s body (her hair, for example) or an object that once belonged to the lady is touched by the knight. The objects that represent these ladies provide their knights with some form of power at crucial stages in the romances, usually encouraging …
Fabricated Muslim Identity, Female Agency, And Cultural Complicity: The Imperial Project Of Emaré, Amy Burge, Lydia Kertz
Fabricated Muslim Identity, Female Agency, And Cultural Complicity: The Imperial Project Of Emaré, Amy Burge, Lydia Kertz
Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality
Extant in only one mid-fifteenth-century manuscript, the Middle English romance Emaré has nevertheless captivated modern scholars and readers. The majority of studies have focused on the text’s material culture, centred on the description of a luxurious cloth that takes up 10% of the poem. A recent global turn in medieval studies has consistently highlighted the role of medieval Europe in defining and supporting imperial projects, simultaneously challenging the Eurocentrism of medieval studies and the supposed neutrality of medieval European culture. This article brings Emaré into conversation with material culture and postcolonial critique to investigate the imperial politics of the text. …
Pag-Balik: The Dynamics Of Repetition In Virginia Moreno’S The Onyx Wolf, Angelica Maria D. Tomintz
Pag-Balik: The Dynamics Of Repetition In Virginia Moreno’S The Onyx Wolf, Angelica Maria D. Tomintz
English Faculty Publications
Philippine serial colonialism left indelible marks in the consciousness of the Filipino nation and thus may be considered as cultural trauma. The large volume of literary works focusing on the issue of colonialism demonstrates the impact of this trauma and exhibits what in trauma studies is called repetition. This study distinguishes the repetition presented in Virginia Moreno’s The Onyx Wolf because it indicates working-through and appropriates the concept to the Filipino context. The Filipino word balik embodies this unique form of repetition. Specifically, the Philippine experience of repetition as displayed in The Onyx Wolf involves pagpapabalik-balik (going back and forth), …
Volume 23, Full Contents, Mssj Staff
Volume 23, Full Contents, Mssj Staff
Midwest Social Sciences Journal
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Finding A Place For World War I In American History: 1914-2018, Jennifer D. Keene
Finding A Place For World War I In American History: 1914-2018, Jennifer D. Keene
History Faculty Books and Book Chapters
"World War I has occupied an uneasy place in the American public and political consciousness.1 In the 1920s and 1930s, controversies over the war permeated the nation’s cultural and political life, influencing memorial culture and governmental policy. Interest in the war, however, waned considerably after World War II, a much larger and longer war for the United States. Despite a plethora of scholarly works examining nearly every aspect of the war, interest in the war remains limited even among academic historians. In many respects, World War I became the “forgotten war” because Americans never developed a unifying collective memory about …
A Question Of Scale: Making Meteorological Knowledge And Nation In Imperial Asia, Fiona Williamson, Vladimir Jankovic
A Question Of Scale: Making Meteorological Knowledge And Nation In Imperial Asia, Fiona Williamson, Vladimir Jankovic
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
This special issue of History of Meteorology explores processes of making, communicating, and embedding modern meteorological knowledge in late nineteenth and early twentieth century imperial Asia. Its focus is on the institutionalisation of meteorology in key nation-building activities such as developing agricultural services, synoptic mapping to predict storms, and participation in scientific organisations and initiatives. Collectively, the essays explore the intersection of local, regional, and international scales and processes in generating new forms of state-sponsored meteorological practices and institutions, though complex multi-layered networks involving different actors and modes of information flow across multiple scales. In so doing, they reveal the …
The Cataclysmic Desire For Power: The Irish Rebellion Of 1641, Clare Marie Nee
The Cataclysmic Desire For Power: The Irish Rebellion Of 1641, Clare Marie Nee
Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History
The Irish Rebellion of 1641 is particularly vital to understanding the political, religious, and social tensions that still remain an issue today in Northern Ireland. This essay investigates the tensions between the English and the Irish, and determines that there is not one single cause that fueled the tensions, but rather that it is a culmination of religious, social, and economic circumstances that led to the devastation of the rebellion on both sides of the war.
Divine Suppressors: Bigamy In The Eighteenth-Century Criminal Justice System, Luke Hs Horton
Divine Suppressors: Bigamy In The Eighteenth-Century Criminal Justice System, Luke Hs Horton
Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History
The criminal justice system in eighteenth-century England was an integral part of European society. The legal system had always been associated with several facets of everyday life and touched upon the lives of those in every class of European society. One of England’s oldest and most significant courthouses was the Old Bailey, which held thousands of trials and sessions over the two hundred and forty years it was active. Out of the wide variety of cases to choose from, ten sexual offences revolving around bigamy were selected to present how the criminal justice system leaked into different areas of life. …
William Clark, The Fur Trade, And Indian Affairs, Jay H. Buckley
William Clark, The Fur Trade, And Indian Affairs, Jay H. Buckley
Faculty Publications
There are so many things that are admirable about William Clark. Sometimes I shudder to think what the great expedition would have been if Clark had declined Lewis’ offer to share in what Clark called “the dangers, difficulties, and fatigues” of the journey. Without wishing to denigrate the possible contributions of Moses Hooke, I believe that the expedition would have been a much less successful enterprise if Clark had remained at the Falls of the Ohio when Lewis ventured into the unknown in 1803.
The Story Behind My Uncle's Copy Of Il Milione, Janos M. Jalics
The Story Behind My Uncle's Copy Of Il Milione, Janos M. Jalics
Student Projects from the Archives
In 1983, a 1948 copy of Marco Polo’s Travels was given to my Uncle Laci by my Great-Aunt Kristi and Great-Uncle Paul. It was translated by William Marsden. The story of this book is surrounded by adventure.
Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 70, Number 2, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 70, Number 2, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
FLORIDA'S CONFEDERATE GUERRILLAS: JOHN W. PEARSON AND THE OKLAWAHA RANGERS Zack C. Waters
A FORGOTTEN SACRIFICE: RICHARD GENTRY, MISSOURI VOLUNTEERS, AND THE BATTLE OF OKEECHOBEE Phillip Thomas Tucker
MISSOURI VOLUNTEERS AT THE BATTLE OF OKEECHOBEE: CHRISTMAS DAY 1837 John K. Mahon
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: WAKULLA COUNTY'S FOLK GRAVEYARDS Sherrie Stokes
REVIEW ESSAY AN “AFRICAN PRINCE, MAJESTIC IS HIS WRATH": WILLIAM S. MCFEELY'S BIOGRAPHY OF FREDERICK DOUGLASS Willard B. Gatewood
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Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 69, Number 2, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 69, Number 2, Florida Historical Society
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MEN WITHOUT GOD OR KING: RURAL SETTLERS OF EAST FLORIDA, 1784-1790 Susan R. Parker
“TELL THEM I DIED LIKE A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER": FINEGAN’S FLORIDA BRIGADE AT COLD HARBOR Zack C. Waters
APALACHICOLA AWEIGH: SHIPPING AND SEAMEN AT FLORIDA'S PREMIER COTTON PORT Lynn Willoughby
WILLIAM POPE DUVAL: AN EXTRAORDINARY FOLKLORIST Frank L. Snyder
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Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 65, Number 2, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 65, Number 2, Florida Historical Society
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STANDARDS OF NUTRITION IN A ST. AUGUSTINE HOSPITAL, 1783-1821 Ann P. Emerson
UNION ACADEMY: A FREEDMEN'S BUREAU SCHOOL IN GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA Murray D. Laurie
FLORIDA SEMINOLES IN THE DEPRESSION AND NEW DEAL, 1933-1942: AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE Harry A. Kersey, Jr.
COW CAVALRY: MUNNERLYN'S BATTALION IN FLORIDA, 1864-1865 Robert A. Taylor
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Duterte’S Disciplinary Quarantine: How A Moral Dichotomy Was Constructed And Undermined, Wataru Kusaka
Duterte’S Disciplinary Quarantine: How A Moral Dichotomy Was Constructed And Undermined, Wataru Kusaka
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints
Thisarticle explores the characteristics of what I call Duterte’s “disciplinary quarantine,” which is premised on a moral dichotomy between “good citizens,” who abide by strict regulations, and undisciplined “evil others” (pasaway), who endanger the nation. Based on my family’s participant observation in Bohol, thisarticle also describes how Boholanos have undermined the moral dichotomy by embracing minor violations to endure the government’s protracted and rigid quarantine rules. I suggest that ideas about appropriate behaviors created through people’s mutuality and everyday trials and errors are more reliable than top-down “discipline” for a continual struggle against the pandemic. KEYWORDS: DISCIPLINE • MORAL DICHOTOMY …
Covidscapes: The Pandemic In The Philippines, Filomeno V.; Aguilar Jr.
Covidscapes: The Pandemic In The Philippines, Filomeno V.; Aguilar Jr.
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints
This introductory essay develops the notion of Covidscapes, taking a cue from Arjun Appadurai. Despite mutations, a single type of coronavirus has gone around the world causing the Covid-19 disease. Yet experiences with the pandemic have varied widely across and even within countries for reasons that go beyond the pathogen. The concept of Covidscapes captures the simultaneous sharing of a global phenomenon along with diversity and difference. Covidscapes are profoundly perspectival and disjunctive. State–societal factors suggest countries can have their own Covidscapes. The contributions in this issue shed light on the peculiar dynamics and contradictions of the Philippine Covidscape. KEYWORDS: …
Beyond The Pathogen: Cultural Influences On The Impact Of Epidemics Viewed From History, Linda A. Newson
Beyond The Pathogen: Cultural Influences On The Impact Of Epidemics Viewed From History, Linda A. Newson
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints
The paper reflects on the historical experience of epidemics in Latin America and the Philippines. It shows how cultural factors can affect the ability of societies to develop immunity and recover. It also shows how leadership can influence the way in which an epidemic and the health crisis is managed. As such, it argues that the impact of a single epidemic is unlikely to be the same throughout the world or even within one country. KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF EPIDEMICS • CULTURE AND DEMOGRAPHY • LEADERSHIP • LATIN AMERICA • PHILIPPINES
The Philippine Covidscape: Colonial Public Health Redux?, Warwick Anderson
The Philippine Covidscape: Colonial Public Health Redux?, Warwick Anderson
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints
Comparing historical perceptions of three epidemics in the Philippines and the responses they elicited allows us to see how these disease outbreaks were conceived in terms of configuration, whether ecological or sociological, and contamination. Cholera in 1902, influenza in 1918–1919, and Covid-19 in 2020 each open up revealing cross sections through Philippine social life, culture, and governance. Furthermore, simplistic assumptions of contamination or pollution—in contrast to more complexly structured configurational models—are correlated with coercive or militaristic reactions to pandemics, including social distancing, lockdowns, curfews, and suppression of dissent. KEYWORDS: MEDICINE • SCIENCE • HISTORY • CHOLERA • INFLUENZA • COVID-19
Ronald K. Edgerton’S American Datu: John J. Pershing And Counterinsurgency Warfare In The Muslim Philippines, 1899–1913, Review Author: Hawkins
Ronald K. Edgerton’S American Datu: John J. Pershing And Counterinsurgency Warfare In The Muslim Philippines, 1899–1913, Review Author: Hawkins
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints
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Damon L. Woods’S The Myth Of The Barangay And Other Silenced Histories, Review Author: Nery
Damon L. Woods’S The Myth Of The Barangay And Other Silenced Histories, Review Author: Nery
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints
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Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 64, Number 2, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 64, Number 2, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
A SECOND CHANCE: CARY NICHOLAS AND FRONTIER FLORIDA Dennis Golladay
A GREAT STIRRING IN THE LAND: TALLAHASSEE AND LEON COUNTY IN 1860 William Warren Rogers
BLACK REACTION TO SEGREGATION AND DISCRIMINATION IN POST-RECONSTRUCTION F L O R I D A Wali R. Kharif
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS: A SWISS SETTLER IN EAST FLORIDA: A LETTER OF FRANCIS PHILIP FATIO edited by William Scott Willis
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Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 64, Number 1, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 64, Number 1, Florida Historical Society
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ST. AUGUSTINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 1883-1983 Thomas Graham
“IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST?” ED BALL AND THE FEC RAILWAY WAR Burton Altman
FLORIDA'S CATTLE-RANCHING FRONTIER: MANATEE AND BREVARD COUNTIES ( 1860) John Solomon Otto
FORMATION OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA INDIAN RESERVATION James M. Covington
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS: FLORIDA HISTORY IN PERIODICALS, 1984
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Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 63, Number 2, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 63, Number 2, Florida Historical Society
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FRANCIS’S METALLIC LIFEBOATS AND THE THIRD SEMINOLE WAR George E. Buker
MILITARY DUTY IN ANTEBELLUM FLORIDA: THE EXPERIENCES OF JOHN HENRY WINDER Arch Fredric Blakey
PLANTATION DEVELOPMENT IN BRITISH EAST FLORIDA: A CASE STUDY OF THE EARL OF EGMONT Daniel L. Schafer
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS: Cracker— SPANISH FLORIDA STYLE James A. Lewis
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Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 62, Number 1, Florida Historical Society
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JOHN ELLIS, ROYAL AGENT FOR WEST FLORIDA Roy A. Rauschenberg
WAR COMES TO SAN MARCOS Lawrence Kinnaird and Lucia B. Kinnaird
A FRENCH WOULD-BE SETTLER ON LAFAYETTE’S FLORIDA TOWNSHIP Lucretia Ramsey Bishko
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS: JAMES THOMPSON, PENSACOLA’S FIRST REALTOR Robin F. A. Fabel
FLORIDA HISTORY IN PERIODICALS, 1982
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Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 61, Number 3, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly, Volume 61, Number 3, Florida Historical Society
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FLORIDA’S CAPITOLS Lee H. Warner
TIMUCUAN REBELLION OF 1656: THE REBOLLEDO INVESTIGATION AND THE CIVIL-RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSY Fred Lamar Pearson, Jr.
POTTER COMMITTEE INVESTIGATION OF THE DISPUTED ELECTION OF 1876 Karen Guenther
IMMIGRANT WOMEN IN TAMPA: THE ITALIAN EXPERIENCE, 1890-1930 Gary R. Mormino and George E. Pozetta
THE AGRARIANS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF FIFTY YEARS: AS ESSAY REVIEW Willard B. Gatewood, Jr.
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS: FLORIDA HISTORY RESEARCH IN PROGRESS
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First World War Internment In Canada: Enemy Aliens And The Blurring Of The Military/Civilian Distinction, Bohdan S. Kordan
First World War Internment In Canada: Enemy Aliens And The Blurring Of The Military/Civilian Distinction, Bohdan S. Kordan
Canadian Military History
In Canada during the First World War, where aliens of enemy origin were increasingly without work and destitute, internment offered a solution. Interned as prisoners of war (POWs)—a designation that sanctioned voluntary work unrelated to the war—such individuals were sent to frontier labour camps. Their POW designation, however, afforded them certain protections under the laws of war while their status as civilian prisoners suggested they were entitled to even greater consideration than captured combatants. Yet it was precisely their status as civilians that obviated any such consideration. They were not POWs as was conventionally understood. They were interned civilians without …