Pub Date : 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1177/03631990231205332
Dana M. Williams
Genealogy necessitates historical records, the majority of which derive from government sources, despite families’ “private” lives. State records weren’t intended to service future family historians, but were a means to state-formation and power. Consequently, records used by family historians reflect statist concerns, not state subjects’. Genealogy databases and censuses were analyzed to determine how many derive from state sources. An individual, anecdotal example focused upon a US Census record illuminates genealogical insight and misunderstanding; despite relevance, interpretation problems confront family historians. Genealogical research is limited by modernity's governmentality and the state gaze, impacts generally under-acknowledged by the average family historian.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-18DOI: 10.1177/03631990231196784
George McClure
With an eye to joining literary and family history, this article examines Boccaccio's role in consolidating a new genre regarding the struggles of young people to choose their own paths against the constraints of paternal authority. In works of fiction, humanist scholarship, and biography, Boccaccio portrayed the struggle for filial freedom, both in terms of his own vocational aspirations as a young poet and in the struggle of young women to assert their freedom in the choice of spouse or vocation.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1177/03631990231198860
Christopher Ewing
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Pub Date : 2023-09-06DOI: 10.1177/03631990231196822
D. Akenson
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Pub Date : 2023-07-16DOI: 10.1177/03631990231187137
Shelby Martens
According to Jennifer Helgren’s newest book, Camp Fire Girls—an extracurricular weekly girls’ group similar in many ways to the Girl Guides—tried to instill the values of beauty and usefulness into twentieth-century American girls. Helgren shows that the question of how these girls responded to such teachings is much more complicated. The Camp Fire Girls: Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910–1980 demonstrates that girls in the organization found a “space to develop their own identities,” identities that at times were “consistent” with its general principles, but at other times directly challenged Camp Fire’s “vision of twentieth-century American girlhood” (6). Through her examination of Camp Fire, Helgren shows how studying an extracurricular girls’ organization not only informs us about girls’ experiences in the program, but also uncovers the ways that the girls themselves actively shaped and redefined a broader American girlhood. The Camp Fire Girls traces the evolution of Camp Fire as an organization from its earliest informal years in the 1910s, to its explosion as America’s largest girls’ organization, and then to its eventual fading in the 1970s and 80s. Through a chronological and thematic approach, Helgren argues that Camp Fire was both empowering and exclusionary. Camp Fire assumed and esteemed girls’ future roles in the family and home, while simultaneously providing space to explore “civic” and “outdoor” life in ways that were otherwise closed to them (14). This understanding of the complicated dichotomy of essential feminism informs Helgren’s analysis and helps her to situate the organization within the earliest years of the women’s movement. The sheer numbers of children Camp Fire reached makes the subject worthy of study. But Helgren goes further by weaving the evolution of American society in the twentieth century through her work, making the book a masterful and widely applicable contribution to historiography. This is not just a study of the history of girlhood (although more such studies are needed); it describes nearly an entire century through the lens of one organization, showing the dramatic ebbs and flows of American society and culture in the twentieth century. The second chapter of the book examines how Camp Fire used romanticized and condescending notions of Indigeneity and “Gypsy” culture as the foundation for girls’ connection to nature. Until well after World War II, Camp Fire girls were required to don European versions of Indigenous regalia when participating in any special ceremony. These ceremonies, most often centered around a campfire, were used to connect girls to their “primitive emotions” and thus help them to better respect and understand nature and the “great mystery” of life (60–61). Camp Fire organizers believed this inclusion of Indigenous customs and apparel would show respect and an appreciation for Indigenous cultures, while simultaneously reducing any differences of race, class, or religion betw
根据Jennifer Helgren的新书，Camp Fire girls——一个在很多方面类似于Girl guides的课外每周女生团体——试图向20世纪的美国女孩灌输美丽和实用的价值观。Helgren表示，这些女孩如何回应这些教导的问题要复杂得多。营火女孩:《性别、种族和美国少女时代，1910-1980》表明，该组织中的女孩找到了“发展自己身份的空间”，这些身份有时与它的一般原则“一致”，但有时又直接挑战了“篝火夏令营”的“20世纪美国女孩的愿景”(6)。通过对“篝火夏令营”的考察，Helgren展示了研究一个课外女孩组织如何不仅告诉我们女孩在这个项目中的经历，而且揭示了女孩们自己积极塑造和重新定义更广泛的美国女孩的方式。《营火女孩》追溯了营火作为一个组织的演变历程，从20世纪10年代最早的非正式岁月，到成为美国最大的女孩组织，再到20世纪70年代和80年代最终的衰落。通过时间顺序和主题方法，赫尔格伦认为，“营火”既赋予权力，又具有排他性。Camp Fire承担并尊重女孩未来在家庭和家庭中的角色，同时为她们提供了探索“公民”和“户外”生活的空间，而这些方式对她们来说是封闭的(14)。这种对基本女权主义的复杂二分法的理解为Helgren的分析提供了信息，并帮助她将该组织置于妇女运动的早期。“营火”所涉及的儿童数量之多，使得这个主题值得研究。但赫尔格伦更进一步，通过她的作品编织了20世纪美国社会的演变，使这本书成为历史编纂学的一部精湛而广泛适用的贡献。这不仅仅是对少女时代历史的研究(尽管需要更多这样的研究);它通过一个组织的镜头描述了几乎整整一个世纪，展示了20世纪美国社会和文化的戏剧性兴衰。本书的第二章探讨了“营火”如何将浪漫化和居高俯下的土著观念和“吉普赛”文化作为女孩与自然联系的基础。直到第二次世界大战后很久，在参加任何特殊仪式时，“火营”的女孩都被要求穿上欧洲版本的土著服饰。这些仪式通常以篝火为中心，用来将女孩与她们的“原始情感”联系起来，从而帮助她们更好地尊重和理解自然和生命的“伟大奥秘”。营火活动的组织者认为，将土著习俗和服装纳入其中，可以显示对土著文化的尊重和欣赏，同时减少女孩之间的种族、阶级或宗教差异。然而，Helgren认为，对土著文化的挪用只是“放大了种族等级”，并通过将真正的土著文化牢牢地置于过去而将其排除在外(56)。书评
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Pub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.1177/03631990231183666
Nuri Kim
Although kinship groups have lost some of their prominence in South Korea, this article investigates how they continue to act as significant producers of historical knowledge in the present. Especially in writing histories of their own ancient origins, kinship groups have constructed narratives that clash with national histories or the scholarly consensus. This article sheds light on how kinship groups navigate countervailing narratives and reassert their epistemological agency through their own production of scholarship. Through this study, kinship groups emerge as potent sources of alternative knowledge that amplifies the plurality and contentiousness of historical knowledge in Korea.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1177/03631990231172086
K. Sundsback
This paper explores the lives and agency of three generations free colored women on St. Croix, an island in the Danish-Norwegian West-Indies from the period 1760–1850. Different social strategies these women adopted in finding and defining their identities in a racially prejudiced society and how their social networks and family bonds affected their choices and lives have been studied. By applying a combination of prosopography and microhistory, new insights, and perspectives of free colored women's agency is gained. This paper suggests that free women of color were resourceful and independent and consciously employed complex social practices to climb the social ladder.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-22DOI: 10.1177/03631990231177794
Christopher Thomas Goodwin
The Nazi regime used state-run marriage mediation of disabled veterans and war widows to align women's marital choices with the Nazi goal of raising the German birth rate. Marriage centers were intended as a gateway to wider acceptance of population policy and to eventually abolish the marriage “free marketplace” in favor of demographic management to create collective outcomes of hereditary fitness. This involved creating new marital and reproductive duties among Germans and channeling this social responsibility to convince Germans to willingly participate in marriage mediation for the greater good. Yet, individual desire and self-reliance in the broader marketplace almost always trumped Nazi policy.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-16DOI: 10.1177/03631990231175313
G. Frost
{"title":"Book Review: Constructing the Family: Marriage and Work in Nineteenth-Century English Law by Luke Taylor","authors":"G. Frost","doi":"10.1177/03631990231175313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03631990231175313","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45991,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Family History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46698419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-03DOI: 10.1177/03631990231172421
C. Morgan
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