Women's History in the New Millennium: Carroll Smith-Rosenberg's "The Female World of Love and Ritual" after Twenty-Five Years
2000; Binghamton University; Volume: 12; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/jowh.2000.0056
ISSN1527-2036
AutoresLeila J. Rupp, Molly McGarry, Kanchana Natarajan, Dáša Frančíková, Tânia Navarro Swain, Karin Lützen,
Tópico(s)Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
ResumoContinuing our consideration of classic works in women's history, launched with a retrospective on Louise Tilly and Joan Scott's Women, Work, and Family in the autumn 1999 issue, we turn here to what is certainly the most cited article on women's relationships. Carroll Smith-Rosenberg's pioneering and provocative work has already spawned an extensive literature, most recently responding, as Molly McGarry points out, primarily to questions of the social acceptability and physical nature of relationships in female worlds. For that reason, we decided to take a somewhat different tack in this retrospective. We include only one American voice, that of a newly minted scholar. Our other contributors come from India, Czech Republic, Brazil, and Denmark, and they consider the relevance and impact of this influential article in various ways. McGarry launches the retrospective through a generational lens. Kanchana Natarajan and Dása Francíková look at women's relationships--in literature, sex-segregated social spaces, and correspondence--in India and Bohemia. Finally, Tania Navarro Swain and Karin Lützen in different ways suggest that Smith-Rosenberg's work was "queer" before we knew what "queer history" might be.------Leila J. Rupp
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