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Género e historia global
presentación del número
Oliver C Laband ([email protected])
An introduction to the issue and a synopsis of the articles included in "Gender and World History". (Inglés)
An introduction to the issue and a synopsis of the articles included in "Gender and World History". (Inglés)
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ARTÍCULOS
THE COLONIALITY OF GIRLS' EDUCATION IN SRI LANKA. AGENCY, TRANSFORMATION AND ADAPTATION
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Jessica A. Albrecht ([email protected])
This article looks at the global, entangled history of girls’ education in late colonial Sri Lanka. This article looks at two European women educators, Lilian Nixon and Florence Farr, who came to the island to become principals of girl’s schools at the beginning of the twentieth century. Both had been educated at the Cheltenham Ladies College, England, whose impact on the education of girls, in England and the Empire, is crucial. By looking at the discussions on girls’s education at CLC, Ladies’ College (Nixon), Colombo, and Ramanathan College (Farr), Jaffna, Sri Lanka, this article proposes a new, global historical, approach to the history of girls’ education and female empowerment, colonial power structures and postcolonial transformations. I will argue that the answer to the question whether colonial girls’ education and its successors is seen as empowering, depends on the conceptualisation of empowerment and agency in their relation to religion. The case study of Sri Lanka can, thereby, serve as an example to instigate new discussions within postcolonial and feminist approaches in history.
(Artículo en inglés)
This article looks at the global, entangled history of girls’ education in late colonial Sri Lanka. This article looks at two European women educators, Lilian Nixon and Florence Farr, who came to the island to become principals of girl’s schools at the beginning of the twentieth century. Both had been educated at the Cheltenham Ladies College, England, whose impact on the education of girls, in England and the Empire, is crucial. By looking at the discussions on girls’s education at CLC, Ladies’ College (Nixon), Colombo, and Ramanathan College (Farr), Jaffna, Sri Lanka, this article proposes a new, global historical, approach to the history of girls’ education and female empowerment, colonial power structures and postcolonial transformations. I will argue that the answer to the question whether colonial girls’ education and its successors is seen as empowering, depends on the conceptualisation of empowerment and agency in their relation to religion. The case study of Sri Lanka can, thereby, serve as an example to instigate new discussions within postcolonial and feminist approaches in history.
(Artículo en inglés)
conflicting agencies in the "juntas": "patronas" and "patrocinadas" in cuba (1880-1886)
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Elena Barattini ([email protected])
The gendered aspects of slavery in Cuba were key in the anticipated dismissal of the forced apprenticeship (the patronato) implemented to orchestrate the transition from slavery to coexisting forms of dependencies. This article explores the role that petitions brought forward by formerly enslaved women (patrocinadas) against their former female slave owners (patronas) had in this process. On the one hand, the characteristics of their enslavement in urban and domestic settings gave patrocinadas relative room for manoeuvre to acquire the social and material resources needed to file a lawsuit. On the other hand, patronas were resolute in trying to maintain control over their prerogatives, and privileges, which patrocinadas were an integral part of. Nonetheless, “property” in enslaved people by well-off and non-affluent women still needs to be thoroughly examined by the historiography on slavery in Cuba. This contribution highlights how the legal quarrels between patrocinadas and patronas could represent a significant primary source for studying this relevant occurrence. Moreover, the same sources might point to the pivotal role these conflicting demonstrations of agencies had in the gradual chipping of the patronato system. (Artículo en inglés)
The gendered aspects of slavery in Cuba were key in the anticipated dismissal of the forced apprenticeship (the patronato) implemented to orchestrate the transition from slavery to coexisting forms of dependencies. This article explores the role that petitions brought forward by formerly enslaved women (patrocinadas) against their former female slave owners (patronas) had in this process. On the one hand, the characteristics of their enslavement in urban and domestic settings gave patrocinadas relative room for manoeuvre to acquire the social and material resources needed to file a lawsuit. On the other hand, patronas were resolute in trying to maintain control over their prerogatives, and privileges, which patrocinadas were an integral part of. Nonetheless, “property” in enslaved people by well-off and non-affluent women still needs to be thoroughly examined by the historiography on slavery in Cuba. This contribution highlights how the legal quarrels between patrocinadas and patronas could represent a significant primary source for studying this relevant occurrence. Moreover, the same sources might point to the pivotal role these conflicting demonstrations of agencies had in the gradual chipping of the patronato system. (Artículo en inglés)
DECENTERING THE ENLIGHTENMENT: CROSSING GLOBAL AND GENDER PERSPECTIVES
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Mónica Bolufer ([email protected]); Elena Serrano ([email protected])
Global and transnational history and women’s and gender history are dynamic historiographical currents that invite more intense cross-fertilization—especially in studies on the Enlightenment and its open legacy. Our article seeks to stimulate theoretical and methodological discussion on how these approaches might fruitfully interact. What can a gender perspective add to current perspectives on a global Enlightenment? And vice-versa, what do transnational and global perspectives that are interested in cultural transfers and sensitive to empire, race, and ethnicity add to current studies on gender and the Enlightenment? Building on the experience and ongoing research of our collective project CIRGEN: Circulating Gender in the Global Enlightenment: Ideas, Networks, Agencies, we aim to further efforts to decenter the Enlightenment in its multiple senses in relation to geographies, actors, and gazes.
(Artículo en Inglés)
Global and transnational history and women’s and gender history are dynamic historiographical currents that invite more intense cross-fertilization—especially in studies on the Enlightenment and its open legacy. Our article seeks to stimulate theoretical and methodological discussion on how these approaches might fruitfully interact. What can a gender perspective add to current perspectives on a global Enlightenment? And vice-versa, what do transnational and global perspectives that are interested in cultural transfers and sensitive to empire, race, and ethnicity add to current studies on gender and the Enlightenment? Building on the experience and ongoing research of our collective project CIRGEN: Circulating Gender in the Global Enlightenment: Ideas, Networks, Agencies, we aim to further efforts to decenter the Enlightenment in its multiple senses in relation to geographies, actors, and gazes.
(Artículo en Inglés)
hermanas de labor contra la guerra, la intevención militar y el fascismo: la unión laborista de mujeres en cuba, 1930-1938
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Kenia Santa Herrera Izquierdo ([email protected]); Abubacar Fofana León ([email protected])
The Women’s Labor Union was a women’s organization created in May 1930 to which all women could belong without distinction of race, class or belief, willing to fight for a broad program of demands beyond the limits of feminism. They stood out for their active participation in the fight against the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado, and also for their adherence to the revolutionary process of the 1930’s. Due to their political activities, many of its members suffered persecution, imprisonment, and exile. The Cuban lawyer Ofelia Domínguez Navarro, who is considered the first female notary public in Cuba, participated in this historical-revolutionary process. Ofelia, stood out as a leader of the Women’s Labor Union advocating for the rights of Cuban women, fighting against Machado oppression, and working in a variety of activities of national and international interest. The objective of this article is to offer an analysis of the performance of this Women’s Labor Union during the anti-Machadist struggle in the early 1930’s, and the political actions of this organizations against the war and fascism as well as to present some considerations about the political actions of Ofelia Domínguez Navarro, and of some of her comrades of work and action. (Artículo en español)
The Women’s Labor Union was a women’s organization created in May 1930 to which all women could belong without distinction of race, class or belief, willing to fight for a broad program of demands beyond the limits of feminism. They stood out for their active participation in the fight against the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado, and also for their adherence to the revolutionary process of the 1930’s. Due to their political activities, many of its members suffered persecution, imprisonment, and exile. The Cuban lawyer Ofelia Domínguez Navarro, who is considered the first female notary public in Cuba, participated in this historical-revolutionary process. Ofelia, stood out as a leader of the Women’s Labor Union advocating for the rights of Cuban women, fighting against Machado oppression, and working in a variety of activities of national and international interest. The objective of this article is to offer an analysis of the performance of this Women’s Labor Union during the anti-Machadist struggle in the early 1930’s, and the political actions of this organizations against the war and fascism as well as to present some considerations about the political actions of Ofelia Domínguez Navarro, and of some of her comrades of work and action. (Artículo en español)
más allá de la lengua. una aproximación al análisis iconográfico de malintzin como guerrera en los lienzos de la conquista: el lienzo de txacala y el manuscrito de glasgow
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Nathaniel Sola Rubio ([email protected])
Hernán Cortés dio una concisa y breve definición de Malintzin (Malinche, Malinalli, o Doña Marina) al describirla como “la lengua”, de quienes otros cronistas, más tarde, se hicieron eco, pasando a la historiografía como una participe activa de la conquista de México. Sin embargo, diversos investigadores e investigadoras se han esforzado por deconstruir el relato hegemónico que ensalza, ignora o desprecia a la intérprete. Dentro del conjunto de estos análisis se integra el presente artículo, teniendo como objetivo, aproximarse desde los métodos de la Historia del Arte a la representación de Malintzin como guerrera en el Lienzo de Tlaxcala y Manuscrito de Glasgow. Ambos documentos (de procedencia tlaxcalteca) expondrán a Malintzin en el centro de la narración pictográfica, adjudicándole un papel que irá más allá de su simple intervención como “lengua” del conquistador. Se expondrán las relaciones iconográficas y contextuales que acogen la imagen de Malintzin como guerrera en torno a la tradición cultural proveniente del universo indígena y el europeo, con el fin de observar las influencias que han marcado el imaginario de Malintzin a partir de una figura vinculada a la legitimidad y lo místico. (Artículo en español)
Hernán Cortés dio una concisa y breve definición de Malintzin (Malinche, Malinalli, o Doña Marina) al describirla como “la lengua”, de quienes otros cronistas, más tarde, se hicieron eco, pasando a la historiografía como una participe activa de la conquista de México. Sin embargo, diversos investigadores e investigadoras se han esforzado por deconstruir el relato hegemónico que ensalza, ignora o desprecia a la intérprete. Dentro del conjunto de estos análisis se integra el presente artículo, teniendo como objetivo, aproximarse desde los métodos de la Historia del Arte a la representación de Malintzin como guerrera en el Lienzo de Tlaxcala y Manuscrito de Glasgow. Ambos documentos (de procedencia tlaxcalteca) expondrán a Malintzin en el centro de la narración pictográfica, adjudicándole un papel que irá más allá de su simple intervención como “lengua” del conquistador. Se expondrán las relaciones iconográficas y contextuales que acogen la imagen de Malintzin como guerrera en torno a la tradición cultural proveniente del universo indígena y el europeo, con el fin de observar las influencias que han marcado el imaginario de Malintzin a partir de una figura vinculada a la legitimidad y lo místico. (Artículo en español)
Reseñas
El-Rouayheb, Khaled. Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800. Chicago University Press, 2005. Reseñado por Jorge García
Smith, Nicola J. Capitalism's Sexual History. Oxford University Press, 2020. Reseñado por Alexandre Pichel-Vázquez
artículos de MISCELÁNEA
"trialling... and erring": a historical overview of housing in petrograd, leningrad, and saint petersburg
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Aris Dougàs Chavarria ([email protected])
This article provides a historical overview of housing in Saint Petersburg from the late Tsarist Empire, to the Soviet Union, and the successor Russian Federation. It is divided into five parts: an introduction, three sections that treat the distinct housing models enacted by the three political entities which have handled the city of Petrograd, then Leningrad, and lastly, Saint Petersburg, and a conclusion. These three entities are, respectively, the Russian empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation. In this manner, the first part gives insight into Petrograd’s housing before the First World War and throughout the 1917 and 1918 Revolutions and the Russian Civil War, treating the deterioration of the housing stock. The second section looks at the housing situation in more generally the Soviet Union but also Leningrad, examining the housing policies carried out in times of Josef Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, and Mikhail Gorbachev. The third one assesses the process of housing privatisation in the Russian Federation, dissecting the reasons for its imperfect development. Finally, the conclusion suggests that none of the tree housing models mentioned above has been able to successfully cope with the housing shortage and points out Nikita Khrushchev as the leader who did the most to relieve the housing shortage. (Artículo en inglés)
This article provides a historical overview of housing in Saint Petersburg from the late Tsarist Empire, to the Soviet Union, and the successor Russian Federation. It is divided into five parts: an introduction, three sections that treat the distinct housing models enacted by the three political entities which have handled the city of Petrograd, then Leningrad, and lastly, Saint Petersburg, and a conclusion. These three entities are, respectively, the Russian empire, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation. In this manner, the first part gives insight into Petrograd’s housing before the First World War and throughout the 1917 and 1918 Revolutions and the Russian Civil War, treating the deterioration of the housing stock. The second section looks at the housing situation in more generally the Soviet Union but also Leningrad, examining the housing policies carried out in times of Josef Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, and Mikhail Gorbachev. The third one assesses the process of housing privatisation in the Russian Federation, dissecting the reasons for its imperfect development. Finally, the conclusion suggests that none of the tree housing models mentioned above has been able to successfully cope with the housing shortage and points out Nikita Khrushchev as the leader who did the most to relieve the housing shortage. (Artículo en inglés)
una mirada al difícil equilibrio entre poder y literatura a través de la experiencia de joan esterlich
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Ivan Lo Giudice ([email protected])
Joan Estelrich protagonizó algunos de los proyectos culturales más destacados de Cataluña y, en la época de entreguerras, destacó por su activismo en la organización de las estrategias catalanistas de Francesc Cambó. En el año en el que se celebran los cien años de la Fundació Bernat Metge, el presente artículo se centra en el vínculo entre poder y literatura desde la perspectiva de los estudios de las culturas y destaca la importancia que la producción cultural ha tenido para promover ideales políticos. El recurso a algunos materiales de archivo inéditos permitirá ver más en detalle las aspiraciones y, en algunos casos, los recelos que el vínculo con el poder conllevó para Estelrich.
(Artículo en español)
Joan Estelrich protagonizó algunos de los proyectos culturales más destacados de Cataluña y, en la época de entreguerras, destacó por su activismo en la organización de las estrategias catalanistas de Francesc Cambó. En el año en el que se celebran los cien años de la Fundació Bernat Metge, el presente artículo se centra en el vínculo entre poder y literatura desde la perspectiva de los estudios de las culturas y destaca la importancia que la producción cultural ha tenido para promover ideales políticos. El recurso a algunos materiales de archivo inéditos permitirá ver más en detalle las aspiraciones y, en algunos casos, los recelos que el vínculo con el poder conllevó para Estelrich.
(Artículo en español)
entrevista
Entrevista a José Herrera Plaza. Fuentes orales, fondos hemerográficos y divulgación de los estudios históricos del franquismo: el caso de estudio del accidente nuclear de Palomares. Realizada por José Antonio Abreu Colombri
