Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe: A History from the French Revolution to the Present Day / Edition 2

by Annette F. Timm, Joshua A. Sanborn

Overview

At a time when issues of gender and sexuality are as prominent as they have ever been, Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe provides an authoritative exploration of the history of these deeply connected subjects over the last 250 years. Incorporating a blend of history and historiography, Annette F. Timm and Joshua A. Sanborn write engagingly on gender and sexuality in a way that illuminates our understanding of historical change and individual experience throughout Europe.

The new and improved 3rd edition of this textbook now includes:

· Personal vignette textboxes which shed light on key themes through individual life stories
· Added material on Russia, Eastern Europe, the Holocaust and the 21st century
· Historiographical updates throughout that bring the text up-to-date with new scholarship
· 30 new images and maps

Through 6 thematic chapters that cover democracy, capitalism, imperialism and war, Timm and Sanborn trace the social construction of gender roles, consider gender's influence on political and economic developments during the period and reflect on where European society's relationship with gender will go both now and in the future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472583802
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/24/2016
Edition description:	2nd Revised ed.
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Annette F. Timm is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Calgary, Canada. She is the author of The Politics of Fertility in Twentieth-Century Berlin (2010), one of the co-editors of Not Straight from Germany: Sexual Publics and Sexual Citizenship since Magnus Hirschfeld (2017) and the editor of Holocaust History and the Readings of Ka-Tzetnik (Bloomsbury, 2018).

Joshua A. Sanborn is David M. '70 and Linda Roth Professor of History at Lafayette College, USA. He is the author of Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire (2014) and Drafting the Russian Nation: Military Conscription, Total War, and Mass Politics, 1905-1925 (2003).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations viii

Preface to the Third Edition xi

Preface to the Second Edition xii

Preface to the First Edition xiv

Introduction 1

Vignette I Catherine the Great 27

1 Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity 33

The Enlightenment 33

The French Revolution 40

Echoes of the French Revolution 60

Revolutionary Wars and Revolutionary Nations 63

Dueling and the Nineteenth-century Fraternity 72

Conclusion 81

Suggested Readings 82

Vignette II Jane Walters 85

2 Gendered Capitalism and its Discontents 95

The Transformation of Labor and the Family 98

Family and Work in Eastern Europe 110

Industrialized Labor and Gender Conflict 112

Utopian Responses 115

Revolution and New Political Ideas 119

Separation of Spheres 128

Urbanization, Sexual Danger, and the Creation of Sexual Identities 136

Conclusion 154

Suggested Readings 155

Vignette III Médéric-Louis-Elie Moreau de Saint-Méry 157

3 The Imperial Drive and the Colonial World 163

Gender and the Culture of Empire 167

Race and Sex in the Colonies 177

Gender and the Science of Empire 188

Gender and the Politics of Empire 199

Conclusion 205

Suggested Readings 210

Vignette IV Gavrilo Princip 211

4 Brothers and Sisters at War 217

The Great Explosion 219

"Uniform Politics" and the Postwar Order 242

"Women and Children First" 255

Conclusion: The Recovery of Masculine Heroism 264

Suggested Readings 270

Vignette V Karl M. Baer / N. O. Body 273

5 The Long Sexual Revolution 281

Defining Sexuality 285

Sexual Difference, Politics, and Evolutionary Theory 289

Sexology 292

Population Policy, Pronatalism, and Eugenics 304

Sexual Revolution: Scientific and Philosophical Origins 319

Sexual Revolution: Politics and Popular Culture 327

Birth Control and Abortion After the Sexual Revolution 336

Conclusion 337

Suggested Readings 339

Vignette VI Idris Elba 341

6 Sex, Gender, and Politics in Twenty-first-century Europe 349

Sex Trafficking 350

Femen's Challenge to European Feminism 354

Queerness in Twenty-first-century Multicultural Europe 360

Internationalism and Multiculturalism 374

Conclusion 383

Suggested Readings 383

Conclusion 385

Works Cited 397

Index 445

Editorial Reviews

This revised and expanded version of Joshua Sanborn's and Annette Timm's widely acclaimed study is essential reading for students and teachers of modern European history alike. In their thorough examination of how sex and gender have shaped and were shaped by the various social, cultural, and political contexts of modern Europe, the authors bring together broad thematic discussions with a wide range of lively individual vignettes, from Catherine the Great to Idris Elba. The result is an engaging and panoramic overview of Europeans' experiences as gendered and sexual citizens across the past two and a half centuries.” —Dr Siobhán Hearne, Historian of Gender and Sexuality, University of Durham, UK

“The third edition of Gender, Sex and the Shaping of Modern Europe improves on what was already an excellent text notable for its clarity, accessibility, and thoughtfulness. The inclusion of individualized vignettes at the beginning of each section brings abstract ideas to life and clearly establishes that personal is political, and vice versa. Also to be emphasized is this edition's enhanced attention to trans lives and individuals. This updated volume remains a stand-out in the field.” —Marko Dumancic, Director of Graduate Studies; Assistant Professor, Western Kentucky University, USA

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