Gender and Animals in History: Yearbook of Women’s History 42 (2023)

Open Access Published by Amsterdam University Press 2024

Gender and Animals in History

Yearbook of Women’s History 42 (2023)

Edited by: Sandra Swart , Iris Zande , Larissa Schulte Nordholt , Marleen Reichgelt , Kirsten Kamphuis , Ernestine Hoegen , Claudia Hacke and Sarah Carmichael

Volume 42 in the series Yearbook of Women’s History

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About this book

The category of species has remained largely understudied in mainstream gender scholarship. This edition of the Yearbook of Women’s History attempts to show how gender history can be enriched through the study of animals. It highlights that the inclusion of nonhuman animals in historical work has the potential to revolutionize the ways we think about gender history. This volume is expansive in more than one way. First, it is global and transhistorical in its outlook, bringing together perspectives from the Global North and the Global South, and moving from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. Even more importantly for its purposes, a range of animals appear in the contributions: from the smallest insects to great apes, and from ‘cute’ kittens to riot dogs and lions. The articles collected here reflect the variety of the animal kingdom and of the creative approaches enabled by animal history.

Author / Editor information

Swart Sandra :

Sandra Swart is professor and chair of the Department of History at Stel¬lenbosch University, South Africa. She received her DPhil in Modern History from Oxford University in 2001, while simultaneously obtaining an MSc in Environmental Change and Management, also at Oxford. She studies the socio-environmental history of southern Africa, focusing on animals. She is an editor of the Brill book series African and Asian Anthropocene: Studies in the Environmental Humanities and co-vice president of the European Society for Environmental History. She has authored/co-authored over 80 articles and chapters.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Editorial Open Access Download PDF	7
Birds of a Feather: How Rethinking Animals Helps Us Rethink Ourselves Sandra Swart Open Access Download PDF	9
Martha Maxwell on the Frontier of Colorado, Modern Taxidermy, and ‘Women’s Work’ Vanessa Bateman Open Access Download PDF	28
Animal Displays, Gender, Race, and Pedagogy at Liverpool Museum, Circa 1880–1920 Alexander Scott Open Access Download PDF	49
Keeping Animals in Their Gendered: Place The Spatialization of Human–Animal Relations in the Laboratory Animal House, Circa 1947 to Present Catherine Duxbury Open Access Download PDF	73
Insects at the Intersection of Gender and Class in the Early Modern Period Charlotte Meijer Open Access Download PDF	91
Perfect Mothers and Stunted Workers: Honey Bee Sex Differences in the Co-Creation of Human and Animal Gender Leah Malamut Open Access Download PDF	104
Milk and Honey: Women, Race, and Captive Gorillas in Colonial Africa Rebecca Machin Open Access Download PDF	120
Engendered Primatology: Of Female Primates and Feminist Primatologists Anindya Sinha and Sayan Banerjee Open Access Download PDF	137
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and the Erotohistoriography of Pets Emma Thiébaut Open Access Download PDF	157
Riot Dogs as Gendered Revolutionary Symbols Annika Hugosson Open Access Download PDF	172
From Pussy Panic to a Fascination with Felines: The Gendered Representations of Cats in Suffrage Postcards Larissa Schulte Nordholt Open Access Download PDF	188
Cats and the Vegetarian Dish in Colonial and Postcolonial Indonesia: Unsettling Sources for Environmental History Marieke Bloembergen Open Access Download PDF	207
Naturalizing Collaboration: Women, Lions, and Behavioural Field Research in East Africa during the 1970s Simone Schleper Open Access Download PDF	225
Of Bits and Pieces: Gendered Equine Knowledge in the Mesnagier de Paris Clémentine Girault Open Access Download PDF	242
Reproduction against Extinction: The Value and Labours of Two Przewalski’s Mares Monica Vasile Open Access Download PDF	257
A View From the Saddle: Reflections on Gender in the Equestrian Sports of Eventing and Horseracing Ernestine Hoegen Open Access Download PDF	274
Riding out the Plague Years with Eroika: Cyborgs, Goddesses, and the Reparative Force of Big Mare Energy Angela Hofstetter Open Access Download PDF	289
Gender and Intersectionality in Agriculture on Three Continents: A Rapstract Compilation Andrea Petitt Open Access Download PDF	307

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 312
Keywords: Multispecies; Intersectionality; human/non-human; relationships 4. Pets

eBook

Published: April 10, 2024
ISBN: 9789048565290