Performing the Self: Women's Lives in Historical Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780367739218 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 184 str.

Katie Barclay; Sarah Richardson

Opis

Performativity is an influential model for understanding the human experience. This collection considers how the approach may provide a deeper understanding of women’s lives in historical perspective, using case studies that range from the medieval to the modern.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Performing the Self: women’s lives in historical perspective Katie Barclay and Sarah Richardson  2. Performing the Self, Performing the Other: gender and racial identity construction in the Nanteuil Cycle Victoria Turner  3. Writing the Self: the journal of Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, 1774–1843 Gillian Beattie-Smith  4. Writing Women’s Histories: women in the colonial record of nineteenth-century Hong Kong Jane Berney  5. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon’s Travel Letters: performative identity-formation in epistolary narratives Meritxell Simon-Martin  6. ‘A notable personality’: Isabella Fyvie Mayo in the public and private spheres of Aberdeen Lindy Moore  7. ‘The Subject is Obscene: No Lady Would Dream of Alluding to It’: Marie Stopes and her courtroom dramas Lesley Hall  8. Body and Self: learning to be modern in 1920s–1930s Britain Charlotte Macdonald  9. Performing the Political Self: a study of identity making and self representation in the autobiographies of India’s first generation of parliamentary women Annie Devenish  10. Eve Drewelowe: feminist identity in American art Lindsay E. Shannon  11. Women Activists: rewriting Greenham’s history Elaine Titcombe  12. The Changing Face of Exhibiting Women’s Wartime Work at the Imperial War Museum Alyson Mercer  13. Concluding Thoughts: performance, the self, and women’s history Penny Summerfield

O autorze

Katie Barclay is a Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, University of Adelaide, Australia. She is the author of the double-awarding winning Love, Intimacy and Power: Marriage and Patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850, and numerous articles on emotions and family life.

Sarah Richardson is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, UK. Her latest monograph is The Political Worlds of Women: Gender and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain published by Routledge in 2013.