Gender, War and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives, 1775-1830

by K. Hagemann (Editor), Doris Gilgenreiner (Editor), J. Rendall (Editor)

Overview

This volume addresses war, developing political and national identities and the changing gender regimes of Europe and the Americas between 1775 and 1830. Military and civilian experiences of war and revolution, in free and slave societies, both reflected and shaped gender concepts and practices, in relation to class, ethnicity, race and religion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137363886
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/25/2013
Series:	War, Culture and Society, 1750-1850 Series
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	374
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

KATHERINE B. AASLESTAD Associate Professor in History, West Virginia University, USA
THOMAS CARDOZA Professor of Humanities, Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno,
SARAH C. CHAMBERS Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
ELIZABETH COLWILL Associate Professor of Women's Studies, San Diego State University, USA
LAURENT DUBOIS Professor of History, Duke University, USA
STEFAN DUDINK Lecturer at the Institute for Gender Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
DAVID ELTIS Robert W. Woodruff Professor of History, Emory University, Atlanta, USA
ALAN FORREST Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York, UK
SHERRY JOHNSON Associate Professor of Latin American and Caribbean History, Florida International University, Miami, USA
CATRIONA KENNEDY Lecturer at the University of York, UK
GREGORY T. KNOUFF Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of History, Keene State College in New Hampshire, USA
EMMA V. MACLEOD Lecturer in History, University of Stirling, UK
ALEXANDER M. MARTIN Associate Professor of European History, University of Notre Dame, USA
HOLLY A. MAYER Associate Professor of History, Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, USA
CECILIA MORGAN Associate Professor in History of Education, University of Toronto, Canada

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface Foreword to the Series Notes on Contributors Introduction: Gender, War and Politics: Transatlantic Perspectives on the Wars of Revolution and Liberation, 1775–1830 K.Hagemann & J.Rendall PARTI: EMPIRE, COLONIAL WAR AND SLAVERY Revolution, War, Empire: Gendering the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1776–1830; D.Eltis Gendered Freedom: Citoyennes and War in the Revolutionary French Caribbean; L.Dubois Freedwomen's Familial Politics: Marriage, War and Rites of Registry in Post-Emancipation Saint-Domingue; E.Colwill PART II: MASCULINITY, REVOLUTION AND WAR Citizenship, Honour, and Masculinity: Military Qualities under the French Revolution and Empire; A.Forrest In the Shadow of the Citizen-Soldier: Politics and Gender in the Careers of Two Dutch Officers, 1780–1815; S.Dudink John Bull into Battle: Military Masculinity and the British Army Officer during the Napoleonic Wars; C.Kennedy Middle-Class Masculinity in an Immigrant Diaspora: War, Revolution and Russia's Ethnic Germans; A.M.Martin PARTIII: WARFARE, CIVIL SOCIETY AND WOMEN Bearing Arms, Bearing Burdens: Women Warriors, Camp Followers and Home-Front Heroines of the American Revolution; H.A.Mayer 'Habits Appropriate to Her Sex': The Female Military Experience in France during the Age of Revolution; T.Cardoza Maintaining the Home Front: Widows, Wives and War in Late Eighteenth-Century Cuba; S.Johnson PART IV: PATRIOTISM, CITIZENSHIP AND NATION-BUILDING Patriotism in Practice: War and Gender Roles in Republican Hamburg, 1750–1815; K.B.Aaslestad 'Thinking Minds of Both Sexes': Patriotism, British Bluestockings and the Wars against Revolutionary America and France, 1775–1802; E.V.Macleod Women Writing War and Empire: Gender, Poetry, and Politics in Britain during the Napoleonic Wars; J.Rendall Celebrating War and Nation: Gender, Patriotism and Festival Culture in Prussia during and after the Anti-Napoleonic Wars; K.Hagemann PART V: DEMOBILIZTION, COMMEMORATION AND MEMORY Gender, Loyalty and Virtue in a Colonial Context: The War of 1812 and its Aftermath in Upper Canada; C.Morgan Masculinity, Race and Citizenship: Soldiers' Memories of the American Revolution; G.T.Knouff 'Drying their Tears': Women's Petitions, National Reconciliation, and Commemoration in Post-Independence Chile; S.C.Chambers Index

Editorial Reviews

'The unparalleled translatlantic approach of this volume cracks open the previously sealed boxes of gender, slavery, warfare, and commemoration and in so doing revolutionizes the study of one of the most crucial moments in all of world history.'

- Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

'A very good collection of substantial chapters that provide a sweeping perspective on gender and the age of revolution, from America, through France, Britain and Germany, to Latin America. These essays demonstrate how the wars that convulsed the Atlantic world, together with revolutions, were the occasion for fundamental changes in notions of masculine citizenship. The authors argue that women were not just passive witnesses, but participated in wars as patriots, provisioners to armies, critics, mothers, and even soldiers.'

- Anna Clark, University of Minnesota, USA

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