Distributed for University of London Press
Gender, Emotions and Power, 1750–2020
A wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between gender, emotions, and power.
The fact that emotional expectations have gendered, racialized, and class-based components has only recently begun to be a topic of discussion in general society. This book tackles contemporary debates around the issue, considering the ways emotional expectations have been attained, stratified, and maintained by institutions, societies, media, and those with access to structural or personal power. The contributors draw upon a diverse set of case studies to present a chronologically and geographically broad intervention. The authors identify and explore connections between the depiction of twentieth-century transnational radical feminists, the settler colonies of southern Africa, post-unification Italy, Maoist China, the twentieth-century Soviet Union, and the medicalized spaces of the British Raj. Contributions also move across time from notions of eighteenth-century British masculinity through Victorian Britain to the Liverpool docks of the 1990s and contemporary Russia. Collectively, the volume’s authors seek to understand how the normalization of emotions as a range of gendered feelings forms the basis upon which notions of self and social identities are performed.
The fact that emotional expectations have gendered, racialized, and class-based components has only recently begun to be a topic of discussion in general society. This book tackles contemporary debates around the issue, considering the ways emotional expectations have been attained, stratified, and maintained by institutions, societies, media, and those with access to structural or personal power. The contributors draw upon a diverse set of case studies to present a chronologically and geographically broad intervention. The authors identify and explore connections between the depiction of twentieth-century transnational radical feminists, the settler colonies of southern Africa, post-unification Italy, Maoist China, the twentieth-century Soviet Union, and the medicalized spaces of the British Raj. Contributions also move across time from notions of eighteenth-century British masculinity through Victorian Britain to the Liverpool docks of the 1990s and contemporary Russia. Collectively, the volume’s authors seek to understand how the normalization of emotions as a range of gendered feelings forms the basis upon which notions of self and social identities are performed.
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
Hannah Parker and Josh Doble
Part I Gender, class and sexuality in the negotiation of political power
2 “My old eyes weep but I am proud of my children”: Grief and revolutionary motherhood in the Soviet 1920s
Hannah Parker
3 Emotion as a tool of Russian bisexual and transgender women’s online activism: a case study
Olga Andreevskhikh
4 Sounding the Socialist Heroine: Gender, Revolutionary Lyricism and Korean War Films
Yucong Hao
5 Emotions at Work: Solidarity in the Liverpool Dock Dispute, 1995–98
Emma Copestake
Part II Power and Place-making: Class, hygiene and race in the British Empire
6 White Pride, Male Anger and the Shame of Poverty: Gendered emotions and the construction of white working class identity in interwar Southern Rhodesia
Nicola Ginsburgh
7 “Africans smell different”: disgust, fear and the gendering of interracial intimacy in Kenya and Zambia
Josh Doble
8 Gender, Mission, Emotion: Building hospitals for women in North-western British India’ India
Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi
Part III Modern Europe’s Public Sphere and the Policing of the Gendered Body
9 “The sap that runs in it is the same”: How the ideal of romantic love challenged the myth of ‘primitive’ polygamy in Paolo Mantegazza’s sexual science
Francesca Campani
10 Writing the Man of Politeness: the hidden importance of shame in eighteenth-century masculinity
Michael Rowland
11 “At nature’s mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him”: Suicide, masculine shame and the language of burden in nineteenth-century Britain
Lyndsay Galpin
12 “Sadistic, grinning rifle-women”: Gender, emotions and politics in representations of militant leftist women
Hannah Proctor
Hannah Parker and Josh Doble
Part I Gender, class and sexuality in the negotiation of political power
2 “My old eyes weep but I am proud of my children”: Grief and revolutionary motherhood in the Soviet 1920s
Hannah Parker
3 Emotion as a tool of Russian bisexual and transgender women’s online activism: a case study
Olga Andreevskhikh
4 Sounding the Socialist Heroine: Gender, Revolutionary Lyricism and Korean War Films
Yucong Hao
5 Emotions at Work: Solidarity in the Liverpool Dock Dispute, 1995–98
Emma Copestake
Part II Power and Place-making: Class, hygiene and race in the British Empire
6 White Pride, Male Anger and the Shame of Poverty: Gendered emotions and the construction of white working class identity in interwar Southern Rhodesia
Nicola Ginsburgh
7 “Africans smell different”: disgust, fear and the gendering of interracial intimacy in Kenya and Zambia
Josh Doble
8 Gender, Mission, Emotion: Building hospitals for women in North-western British India’ India
Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi
Part III Modern Europe’s Public Sphere and the Policing of the Gendered Body
9 “The sap that runs in it is the same”: How the ideal of romantic love challenged the myth of ‘primitive’ polygamy in Paolo Mantegazza’s sexual science
Francesca Campani
10 Writing the Man of Politeness: the hidden importance of shame in eighteenth-century masculinity
Michael Rowland
11 “At nature’s mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him”: Suicide, masculine shame and the language of burden in nineteenth-century Britain
Lyndsay Galpin
12 “Sadistic, grinning rifle-women”: Gender, emotions and politics in representations of militant leftist women
Hannah Proctor