Gender History Across Epistemologies -- CONTENTS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- Introduction: Gender History Across Epistemologies -- 1 Master Narratives and the Wall Painting of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii -- The house and its owners -- Slavery and freedom -- The House of the Vettii in scholarship -- Houses, painting, myth and gender -- Case study: ancient slavery, sexuality and the House of the Vettii -- The master gaze -- Masochism -- Conclusions and implications -- Notes -- 2 'More Beautiful than Words & Pencil Can Express': Barbara Bodichon's Artistic Career at the Interface of her Epistolary and Visual Self Projections -- Bodichon's personal papers: archival contingencies -- Bodichon's letters and paintings: a hybrid performative self-constitution -- Bodichon's artistic identity at the intersection of her epistolary and visual self-projections -- Bodichon's unresolved artistic self and the production of historical knowledge -- Notes -- 3 Public Motherhood in West Africa as Theory and Practice -- Notes -- 4 Profiling the Female Emigrant: A Method of Linguistic Inquiry for Examining Correspondence Collections -- Introduction -- What is a corpus? -- Background remarks -- The LOUGH corpus -- The starting point - simple frequency data -- Words and frequencies -- Words in context: n-grams and clusters -- From quantitative to qualitative: concordance lines -- Discussion and conclusions -- Notes -- 5 Beyond Constructivism?: Gender, Medicine and the Early History of Sperm Analysis, Germany 1870-1900 -- Social constructivism, gender history and the one-sex/two-sex narrative -- 'Cherchez l'homme' - male sterility and the making of sperm testing, 1860-1890 -- Collecting sperm, compromising morals and compiling statistics (loop 1) -- Gynaecologists as andrologists (loop 2) -- Patients (loop 3) -- Conclusion -- Notes.

6 'I Just Express My Views & Leave Them to Work': Olive Schreiner as a Feminist Protagonist in a Masculine Political Landscape with Figures -- Introduction -- Olive Schreiner's 'characteristic shrewdness' - Walker's case for influence -- 'Always give your enemies what they don't want!' - marks upon the text -- Doing things with letters: the performative character of Schreiner's epistolary activities and influence -- A feminist protagonist in a masculine political landscape: on influence and separate spheres -- Notes -- 7 Gender without Groups: Confession, Resistance and Selfhood in the Colonial Archive -- Between groups and individuals - perils of distraction in southern Africa -- Adaima's story - the complete document -- Adaima's story - text, context and ephemeral knowledge -- Conclusions -- Notes -- 8 The Power of Renewable Resources: Orlando's Tactical Engagement with the Law of Intestacy -- Notes -- 9 The Politics of Gender Concepts in Genetics and Hormone Research in Germany, 1900-1940 -- Sex/gender, nature/culture and Mother Nature's 'political correctness -- Gender politics in the sciences -- Gender at the workplace -- Chromosomes and gender equality -- Interactive or hierarchical binary? -- Chromosomes and the binary, inheritable sex difference -- 'Intersexes' - reconciling sex difference in embryology and genetics -- Sex hormones and the binary again -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 10 The Language of Gender in Lovers' Correspondence, 1946-1949 -- The collection -- Migrant letters -- Gender and the epistolary source -- Gender and language -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 11 Gender-Bending in El Teatro Campesino (1968-1980): A Mestiza Epistemology of Performance -- Historiography of the teatrista: shifting analysis from script to stage -- Bending the gender roles of the teatristas: Socorro Valdez's masculine calavera.

Bending the gender roles of the teatristas: gender-neutral calaveras -- Bending the gender roles of the teatristas: 'en unas pocas centurias, thefuture will belong to the mestiza'69 -- Moving toward a mestiza discourse on Teatro Campesino's teatristas -- Notes -- 12 Changing Paradigms in Migration Studies: From Men to Women to Gender -- Histories and historiographies of immigration -- Gender -- The figures -- Representations -- The impact of gender on migration -- The impact of migration on gender -- Gendered categories of understanding -- Notes -- 13 Reconsidering Categories of Analysis: Possibilities for Feminist Studies of Conflict -- Current feminist approaches to studying conflict -- Disrupting categorical boundaries: positionality, affect and understanding -- Sensibilities and political acts: Iran's activist citizens from 1980 to 1988 -- The Islamic Republic of Iran at war: nation-building, heteronormativity and war tactics -- The body and polity formation: physically contesting state and societal nation-building projects -- Politics of local masculinities: unmaking the protector identity of the male warrior -- Politics of local femininities: nationhood, gender and eroticism -- Concluding thoughts -- Notes -- 14 An Epistemology of Collusion: Hijras, Kothis and the Historical (Dis)continuity of Gender/Sexual Identities in Eastern India -- Colonial ethnology: investigating the truth of the eunuch -- Postcolonial ethnography: an intersectional epistemology of hijras -- Translocal consolidations: relating hijra and kothi emergence -- Dhurani, dhunuri , hijra: translocal subcultures in West Bengal -- Gharanas go public: consolidating the hijra -- The rise of the kothi -- From informal to institutional networks -- The translocal standardisation of subcultural language -- Conclusion: collusion and (dis)continuity -- Notes -- INDEX.