(H/B) GENDER AND POLITICS IN THE AGE OF LETTER-WRITING, 1750-2000

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Letters have long been an outlet for political expression, whether they articulate the personal politics of the daily routine or the political views of individuals who witness or participate in dramatic events. In addition, letters can be unusually revealing records of the relations between men and women. Though letters have frequently been studied as a privileged space for literary, social, and cultural expression, the three-dimensional relationship of politics, gender, and letters has not been the focus of an entire volume. The nineteen essays in this collection examine how the gendered nature of political literacy is revealed over a 250-year period through letter writing, whether the writer is famous or unknown, the wife of a prominent politician or activist, a political prisoner or political militant. Ranging wide in terms of subject matter and geography, the contributors examine correspondence that ponders familial concerns, as well as letters providing political commentary on the effects of war or revolution on everyday life. Among the impressive group of international scholars are Jim Allen, Clare Brant, Edith Gelles, Jane Rendall, and Sian Reynolds. (from the publisher)

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List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
PART I: 1750-1850: EPISTOLARY CONNECTIONS IN ENLIGHTENMENT AND REVOLUTION
1. Gender Politics: Breathing New Life into Old Letters
Maire Cross and Caroline Bland
2. 'The Tribunal of the Public': Eighteenth-Century Letters and the Politics of Vindication
Clare Brant
3. Parenthood and Gender Roles as Seen in Diderot's Correspondance
Ursula Yvonne Roberts
4. Deconstructing Gender: Henriette's Correspondence with Rousseau
Anne-Francoise Gilbert
5. Third Person Singular: the Liberation of the Marquise de Sade, 1789 - 1790
David McCallam
6. 'Remember the Ladies': Politics in the Letters of Abigail Adams
Edith B. Gelles
7. 'Friends of Liberty & Virtue': Women Radicals and Transatlantic Correspondence, 1789 - 1848
Jane Kendall
8. The Correspondence of a 'Sister in Humanity'
Maire Cross
PART II: 1850 - 2000: CORRESPONDENCE IN TIMES OF TRIAL
9. Requests, Complaints, Demands. Preliminary Thoughts on the Petitioning Letters of Lower-Class Austrian Women, 1865 - 1918
Christa Hammerle
10. A History in Letters: the Allemane Family's Letters During and After the Paris Commune, 1871 - 1880
Sian Reynolds
11. Across the Divide: a Correspondence During the Dreyfus Affair
David H. Walker
12. The Gendered Politics of Correspondence: the Curious Case of Celine Renooz, 1840 - 1928
James Smith Allen
13. Reading Between the Lines. Letters to Eleanor Keeling Edwards, 1890 - 1900
Krista Cowman
14. More than Just 'a Sporting Couple': the Letters of a Militant Marriage
June Balshaw
15. Slinging the Ink About: Ellen Terry and Women's Suffrage Agitation
Katharine Cochin
16. 'In Great Haste': the Personal and Political in the Letters of F.W. Stella Browne (1880 - 1955), Feminist Socialist Sex Radical
Lesley A. Hall
17. 'In Case the Worst Comes to the Worst': Letters home from Berlin, 1942 - 1945
Caroline Bland
18. Constructing Identities and Remembering Fascism: the Published Letters of Elisabeth Langgasser
Joanne Sayner
19. Corresponding in the Sex and Gender Revolution: Desire, Education and Feminist Letters, 1970 - 2000
Margaretta Jolly
Index of Proper Names