Gender History Across Epistemologies offers broad rangeof innovative approaches to gender history. The essays reveal howhistorians of gender are crossing boundaries - disciplinary,methodological, and national - to explore new opportunities forviewing gender as a category of historical analysis.* Essays present epistemological and theoretical debates centralin gender history over the past two decades* Contributions within this volume to the work on gender historyare approached from a wide range of disciplinary locations andapproaches* The volume demonstrates that recent approaches to genderhistory suggest surprising crossovers and even the discovery ofcommon grounds

Notes on Contributors viiIntroduction: Gender History Across Epistemologies 1DONNA R. GABACCIA AND MARY JO MAYNES1 Master Narratives and the Wall Painting of the House of theVettii, Pompeii 20BETH SEVERY-HOVEN2 'More Beautiful than Words & Pencil CanExpress': Barbara Bodichon's Artistic Career at theInterface of her Epistolary and Visual Self Projections 61MERITXELL SIMON-MARTIN3 Public Motherhood in West Africa as Theory and Practice80LORELLE SEMLEY4 Profiling the Female Emigrant: A Method of Linguistic Inquiryfor Examining Correspondence Collections 97EMMA MORETON5 Beyond Constructivism?: Gender, Medicine and the Early Historyof Sperm Analysis, Germany 1870-1900 127CHRISTINA BENNINGHAUS6 'I Just Express My Views & Leave Them toWork': Olive Schreiner as a Feminist Protagonist in aMasculine Political Landscape with Figures 157LIZ STANLEY AND HELEN DAMPIER7 Gender without Groups: Confession, Resistance and Selfhood inthe Colonial Archive 181CHRISTOPHER J. LEE8 The Power of Renewable Resources: Orlando's TacticalEngagement with the Law of Intestacy 198JAMIE L. MCDANIEL9 The Politics of Gender Concepts in Genetics and HormoneResearch in Germany, 1900-1940 215HELGA SATZINGER10 The Language of Gender in Lovers' Correspondence,1946-1949 235SONIA CANCIAN11 Gender-Bending in El Teatro Campesino (1968-1980): AMestiza Epistemology of Performance 246MEREDITH HELLER12 Changing Paradigms in Migration Studies: From Men to Women toGender 262NANCY L. GREEN13 Reconsidering Categories of Analysis: Possibilities forFeminist Studies of Conflict 279SHIRIN SAEIDI14 An Epistemology of Collusion: Hijras, Kothis and theHistorical (Dis)continuity of Gender/Sexual Identities in EasternIndia 305ANIRUDDHA DUTTAIndex 331