Representing the 1819 Cohort in the Dictionary of National Biography

Kingstone, Helen

doi:10.1093/jvcult/vcz048

Journal of Victorian Culture

2019

DOI: 10.1093/jvcult/vcz048

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Representing the 1819 Cohort in the Dictionary of National Biography

Helen Kingstone

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“…Recent research using new methods, such as Helen Kingstone's corpus-linguistic cohort study, has suggested new tools for examining systematically this gender bias within the Dictionary: she has found that of those subjects in the DNB who were born in the year 1819, 172 were men and only eight were women. 4 Other scholarship has suggested some degree of variation over time within the Dictionary in terms of the balance of its representation of male and female subjects. In 1994 a supplementary volume on Missing Persons was published and in the same year Gillian Fenwick published a book entitled Women and the Dictionary of National Biography, which demonstrates an increase of representation of women over time, both in terms of subjects and contributors.…”

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National Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women: a renaissance of becoming visible

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2021

Women's History Review

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This article demonstrates some of the possibilities of the structured database, National Biographical Dictionary of Swedish Women (Svenskt Kvinnobiografiskt Lexikon, www.skbl.se, hereafter SKBL) for research in women's and gender history. SKBL is a digitally published biographical dictionary of articles with data on 2,000 Swedish women living from the Middle Ages to the present, published in both Swedish and English. The article examines how the Dictionary aims to make visible the contributions of women, often overlooked previously, with emphasis on their contributions to societal development. However, both interface and tagging entail classifications that are governed by principles decided in accordance with present-centred values and technological and cataloguing systems. These principles enable certain advanced searches in SKBL on historical social conditions, demonstrated here by a discussion of the group, 'pioneers'. Despite all the difficulties and obvious limitations of SKBL, this article argues that the project of making visible women's contributions in the past continues to remain necessary.The growth of the fields of women's and gender studies since the 1970s has re-orientated Swedish historiography. A superficial measure of the change is the ever-growing number of doctoral theses published in these areas. The database GENA, produced by the University Library in Gothenburg in collaboration with the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research, lists published doctoral theses in the scholarly field of 'women and gender studies' in all disciplines at all universities in Sweden. A search for doctoral theses in History for the time period 1960-2020 illuminates the increasing scholarly interest: in the 1960s there was only one, in the 1970s there were three, in the 1980s there were ten, and by 2020 the total was 153. 1 In 2018, 10 doctoral theses were produced in the fields of gender and women's history.In this context of the evidence of expanding research on women subjects (as well as men), and gender history topics, one might ask why a national biographical Dictionary of Swedish-born women is still seen as necessary? In this article, I argue that despite expansive research on women's and gender history by scholars of Swedish history, the

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Generational identities: Historical and literary perspectives

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2021

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Discussions of generational identities need to take into account their long and non-linear history. Our present focus on intergenerational inequity Baby-Boomers vs. Millennials disregards the much more complex history of this social identity. This paper by a historian and literary scholar teases apart (1) the diachronic and synchronic meanings of 'generation' , (2) the difference between 'a generation in itself' from 'a generation for itself' that has a social identity, and ( 3) generational identities that are claimed from within or ascribed from without. This paper places the question of how generational change takes place into historical context, showing that while generational identities came to focused attention during the First World War, they arguably began a century earlier, in the upheavals of the French Revolution and worldwide Napoleonic Wars. Nineteenth-century intellectual movements were often generation-conscious, though these identities did not translate across the social spectrum. The paper emphasises the intersectional nature of any generational taxonomy in relation to class, gender, race and national context, drawing brief examples from independence-era Jamaica, post-Soviet Russia, and mid-twentieth-century UK and USA. A final section highlights the value of 'intergenerational' approaches over those that emphasize a 'generation gap' .

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