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There has been an increasing interest in the meaning and importance
of friendship in recent years, particularly in the West. However,
the history of friendship, and the ways in which it has changed
over time, have rarely been examined. Friendship: A History traces
the development of friendship in Europe from the Hellenistic period
to today. The book brings together a range of essays that examine
the language of friendship and its significance in terms of ethics,
social institutions, religious organizations and political
alliances. The essays study the works of classical and contemporary
authors to explore the role of friendship in Western philosophy.
Ranging from renaissance friendships to Christian and secular
friendships and from women's writing to the role of class and sex
in friendships, Friendship: A History will be invaluable to
students and scholars of social history.
This book reveals the importance of personal letters in the history
of European women between the year 1000 and the advent of the
telephone. It explores the changing ways that women used
correspondence for self-expression and political mobilization over
this period, enabling them to navigate the myriad gendered
restrictions that limited women’s engagement in the world.
Whether written from the medieval cloister, or the renaissance
court, or the artisan’s workshop, or the drawing room, letters
crossed geographical and social distance and were mobile in ways
that women themselves could not always be. Women wrote to govern,
to argue, to plead, and to demand. They also wrote to express love
and intimacy, and in so doing, to explain and to understand
themselves. This book argues that the personal letter was a crucial
place for European women’s self-fashioning, and that exploring
the history of their letters offers a profound insight into their
subjectivity and agency over time.
There are now many studies of family letters in Europe, but most of
them focus on marital letters and letters between parents,
especially mothers, and their sons. Little attention has been paid
to the letters to and from daughters. This volume seeks to begin
filling that gap by exploring the continuities and changes evident
in the letters written between mothers and daughters over several
centuries. Some of these changes reflect the history of letters and
the ways that they were written and delivered, especially the move
from the use of scribes and couriers in the medieval and early
modern period, which made both the writing and reading of letters a
public affair, to the use of pens and the situation in which
letters were able to be written in private and read only by the
person to whom they were addressed. But the letters also reveal the
changing nature of the mother and daughter relationship, as the
formal and more distant ties evident in the early period, in which
dynastic and other matters were often more important to a mother
than her daughter's personal happiness, were replaced by closer and
more intimate ties and a concern with particular personalities and
individual needs. This book was originally published as a special
issue of Women's History Review.
There are now many studies of family letters in Europe, but most of
them focus on marital letters and letters between parents,
especially mothers, and their sons. Little attention has been paid
to the letters to and from daughters. This volume seeks to begin
filling that gap by exploring the continuities and changes evident
in the letters written between mothers and daughters over several
centuries. Some of these changes reflect the history of letters and
the ways that they were written and delivered, especially the move
from the use of scribes and couriers in the medieval and early
modern period, which made both the writing and reading of letters a
public affair, to the use of pens and the situation in which
letters were able to be written in private and read only by the
person to whom they were addressed. But the letters also reveal the
changing nature of the mother and daughter relationship, as the
formal and more distant ties evident in the early period, in which
dynastic and other matters were often more important to a mother
than her daughter's personal happiness, were replaced by closer and
more intimate ties and a concern with particular personalities and
individual needs. This book was originally published as a special
issue of Women's History Review.
There has been an increasing interest in the meaning and importance
of friendship in recent years, particularly in the West. However,
the history of friendship, and the ways in which it has changed
over time, have rarely been examined. Friendship: A History traces
the development of friendship in Europe from the Hellenistic period
to today. The book brings together a range of essays that examine
the language of friendship and its significance in terms of ethics,
social institutions, religious organizations and political
alliances. The essays study the works of classical and contemporary
authors to explore the role of friendship in Western philosophy.
Ranging from renaissance friendships to Christian and secular
friendships and from women's writing to the role of class and sex
in friendships, Friendship: A History will be invaluable to
students and scholars of social history.
A quilt in one weekend! Indulge in your favourite hobby when you
piece graphic, bold blocks. Well-known blogger Barbara Cain invites
you make simple patchwork scaled to dynamic proportions, so pattern
pieces are quicker to cut and easier to sew. Each of the 10
beginner-friendly, big-block quilt designs features 2 sizes and 6
colourways for 120 striking possibilities! Use elements from the
quilt top to make a co-ordinating pieced quilt back. Maximise your
time when you make and gift these modern quilts, which can be
assembled in a weekend.
Forming a critical introduction to the history of women's
autobiography from the mid 18th-century to the present, this book
analyses the most important changes in women's autobiography,
exploring their motivation, context, style, and the role of life
experiences. Caine effortlessly segues across three centuries of
history: from the emergence of the ‘modern autobiography’ in
the 18th-century which laid bare the scandalous lives of ‘fallen
women’, to the literary and suffragist autobiographies of the
19th-century to the establishment of feminist publishers in the
20th century and the taboo-shattering autobiographies they
produced. The result is a much-needed history, one which provides a
different way of thinking about the trajectory of genre
information. Caine’s compelling study fills an important gap in
the genre of autobiography, by embracing a wide range of women and
offering an extensive discussion of the autobiographies of women
across the 19th and 20th centuries, making it ideal for classroom
use.
Looking at the complex relationship between the discipline of
history and the writing of lives, this key textbook provides an
original and insightful introduction to a growing and increasingly
important area of historical scholarship and research. Examining
key works that have changed the nature of biography, Barbara Caine
also explores the way biographical narrative and life stories have
become a central preoccupation for history. Outlining the main
features of contemporary historical biography, this is an ideal
companion for undergraduate and postgraduate students taking
courses on historiography, theory and history, theory and methods,
historical methodology, history and
life/biographical/autobiographical writing, and life-writing
courses on English or creative writing degrees. New to this
Edition: - Thoroughly updated throughout - New concluding chapter
on history and the individual life, and the place of biography in
history
Gendering European History covers the period from the French
Revolution to the end of the First World War. Organised both
chronologically and thematically, its central theme is the issue of
gender and citizenship. The book encompasses the late
eighteenth-century revolutionary period, nineteenth-century
developments concerning work, urban and domestic life, national
politics, gender in the fin de siecle and imperialism, and
concludes with the gender crisis of the First World War. Caine and
Sluga explore the question of sexual difference in relation to
class, ethnicity and race, and the development of key historical
debates about identity, work, home, politics, and citizenship in
specific national contexts and across Europe. At the same time,
they provide readers new to European history with general
information about the social and political contexts in which those
debates arose. Intended both as an introductory work for tertiary
students and one that offers new interpretations for scholars in
the field, this study is a synthethis, bringing together the
extensive but often fragmented existing literature on gender in
European history.It also raises new questions and introduces new
sources, particularly in relation to the history of gender and
nation-building. The result is a challenging view of the contours
of European history in the period from the Enlightenment to the
1920's. Barbara Caine is Professor of History, Monash University,
Victoria, Australia. Glenda Sluga is Senior Lecturer in History and
Director of European Studies, University of Sydney, New South
Wales, Australia.
Forming a critical introduction to the history of women's
autobiography from the mid 18th-century to the present, this book
analyses the most important changes in women's autobiography,
exploring their motivation, context, style, and the role of life
experiences. Caine effortlessly segues across three centuries of
history: from the emergence of the ‘modern autobiography’ in
the 18th-century which laid bare the scandalous lives of ‘fallen
women’, to the literary and suffragist autobiographies of the
19th-century to the establishment of feminist publishers in the
20th century and the taboo-shattering autobiographies they
produced. The result is a much-needed history, one which provides a
different way of thinking about the trajectory of genre
information. Caine’s compelling study fills an important gap in
the genre of autobiography, by embracing a wide range of women and
offering an extensive discussion of the autobiographies of women
across the 19th and 20th centuries, making it ideal for classroom
use.
Barbara Caine's fascinating analysis of feminism in England
examines the relationship between feminist thought and actions, and
wider social and cultural change over tow centuries. Professor
Caine investigates the complex question surrounding the concept of
a feminist 'tradition', and shows how much the feminism of any
particular period related to the years preceding or following it.
Though feminism may have lacked the kind of legitimating tradition
evident in other forms of political thought, the ghost of Mary
Wollstonecraft was something which all nineteenth- and
twentieth-century feminists had to come to terms with. Her story
was a constant reminder of the connection between the demand for
political and legal rights, and its conflation with the issues of
personal and sexual rebellion. Like Wollstonecraft, every woman
pioneer into the public arena faced assaults on her honour as well
as on her intellectual position. The author also addresses the
language of feminism: the introduction and changing meanings of the
term 'feminist';the importance of literary representations of
women; and the question of how one defines feminism, and
establishes boundaries between feminism and the 'woman question'.
She ends with a discussion of the new emphasis, post-1980s, on the
need to think about 'feminisms' in the plural, rather than any
single kind of feminism. analysis of feminist organizations,
debates, and campaigns shows a keen sense of the relationship
between feminist thought and actions, and wider social and cultural
change. The result is a fascinating study with a new perspective on
feminists and feminist traditions, which can be used both as an
introductory text and as an interpretative work. Professor Caine
examines the complex questions surrounding the concept of a
feminist 'tradition', and shows how much the feminism of any
particular period related to the years preceding or following it.
Though feminism may have lacked the kind of legitimating tradition
evident in other forms of political thought, the ghost of Mary
Wollstonecraft is seen here as something which all nineteenth- and
twentieth-century feminists had to come to terms with. Her story
was a constant reminder of the connection between the demand for
political and legal rights, and its conflation with the issues of
personal and sexual rebellion. Like Mary Wollstonecraft, every
woman pioneer into the public arena was faced with assaults on her
honour as well as on her intellectual position. Professor Caine
also addresses the language of feminism: the introduction and
changing meanings of the term `feminist'; the importance of
literary representations of women; and the question of how one
defines feminism, and establishes boundaries between feminism and
the `woman question'. She ends with a discussion of the new
emphasis, post-1980s, on the need to think about `feminisms' in the
plural, rather than any single kind of feminism.
This is a study of Victorian feminism which focuses on four leading
feminists: Emily Davies, Frances Power Cobbe,Josephine Butler, and
Millicent Garrett Fawcett. This approach enables Barbara Caine to
uncover the range, diversity, and complexity of Victorian feminism,
and to examine the relationship between personal experience and
feminist commitment. Professor Caine sets her carefully researched
biographical studies of the four women, each with her own
fascinating history, in the context of the Victorian feminist
movement. She explores the ideas and strategies of feminists in the
late nineteenth century, analysing the tensions which arose as they
sought to achieve their aims. In particular, she traces the complex
relationship between party politics and feminist commitment.
Barbara Caine's insight into the vision and beliefs of these
Victorian feminists is balanced by her scholarly understanding of
the society within which they worked. She gives us vivid and
perceptive portraits of four very different individuals, who
nevertheless shared a commitment to improving the lot of women.
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