Women in Eighteenth Century Europe

Hunt, Margaret R.

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“…Earlier age of growth disruption and improved environmental or nutritional conditions have been shown to effect catch up growth (Cameron, 2002; Martorell, 1989). In 18th and early 19th century Europe, older children often acquired resources and contributed to the economic status of their household, thus contributing to a potential improvement in their nutritional environment (Heywood, 2002; Hunt, 2009). Evidence of catch up growth has been reported in other archeological and contemporary populations (eg, Adair, 1999; Godoy et al, 2010; Johnston & Macvean, 1995; Klaus & Tam, 2009; Martorell, Khan, & Schroeder, 1994; Temple, 2008; Teranishi, Nakagawa, & Marmot, 2001; Vercellotti et al, 2014).…”

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An integrative approach to studying plasticity in growth disruption and outcomes: A bioarchaeological case study of Napoleonic soldiers

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Jankauskas

Dupras

2020

American J Hum Biol

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Objectives The aim of this study was to investigate how much variation in adult stature and body mass can be explained by growth disruption among soldiers who served in Napoleon's Grand Army during the Russian Campaign of 1812. Methods Linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) were recorded as representations of early life growth disruption, while the impact on future growth was assessed using maximum femur length (n = 73) as a proxy for stature and maximum femoral head diameter (n = 25) as a proxy for body mass. LEH frequency, severity, age at first formation, and age at last formation served as explanatory variables in a multiple regression analysis to test the effect of these variables on maximum femur length and maximum femoral head diameter. Results The multiple regression model produced statistically significant results for maximum femur length (F‐statistic = 3.05, df = 5 and 67, P = .02), with some variation in stature (adjusted r2 = 0.13) attributable to variation in growth disruption. The multiple regression model for maximum femoral head diameter was not statistically significant (F‐statistic = 1.87, df = 5 and 19, P = .15). Conclusions We hypothesized stress events during early life growth and development would have significant, negative, and cumulative effects on growth outcomes in adulthood. The results did not support our hypothesis. Instead, some variables and interactions had negative effects on stature, whereas others had positive effects. This is likely due to catch‐up growth, the relationship between acute and chronic stress and growth, resilience, and plasticity in human growth over the life course.

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An integrative approach to studying plasticity in growth disruption and outcomes: A bioarchaeological case study of Napoleonic soldiers

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Jankauskas

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2020

American J Hum Biol

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“…Headed by Fred (Joseph Fiennes), Serena and her book, "A Woman's Place," the pre-Gilead movement advocated for a "women's culture," encouraging women to return to the home and "embrace [their] biological destiny" ("A Woman's Place," Season 1, Episode 6; "First Blood," Season 2, Episode 6). However, like the eighteenth and nineteenth century versions (see Epstein 1981;Hunt 2009;Matthews 1989), this "domestic feminism" has a boomerang effect: rather than elevating the status of women and mothers, its principles allow anti-feminists and proponents of cis-heteronormative gender asymmetry to strengthen their counterarguments against feminist movement. Serena and Gilead's "domestic feminism" tames and contains feminism.…”

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“Domestic Feminism”: The Politics of Reproduction and Motherhood in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale

Boyle

2023

Television & New Media

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Popularized by Hulu’s television adaptation, the allegories and iconography of The Handmaid’s Tale have been used in women’s reproductive rights activism around the world. However, at the same time, the series has been recognized and critiqued as offering white, conservative feminism. This article explores how Hulu’s adaptation often works to domesticate Margaret Atwood’s novel and the series’ feminist implications in regard to reproduction and motherhood. While The Handmaid’s Tale has become spectacularly visible as a popular feminist television series, its reproductive politics and representations of women, family and motherhood are largely conservative: waging a limited resistance on behalf of neotraditional white Anglo-western mothers. In light of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, this article is motivated by the conviction that it is increasingly important to hold sociocultural representations of reproduction and motherhood to account.

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“…The geographical coverage of the volume, Italy, France, Germany, England, Spain, Netherlands, some forays into Poland, Portugal, Scotland and Scandinavia, reflects the state of the art, my limited linguistic knowledge and my personal research interests, but it would be absurd, on a subject of such vastness and on which the bibliography continues to be enriched, to demand completeness. Moreover, in recent years, new important research has enlarged our horizons to the history of women in the Ottoman Empire showing also that in cities under Islamic law, like Cairo or Istanbul, women had sometimes more important property rights than in north-western Europe, regardless of their marital status (Hunt 2009;Sperling and Wray 2010). The purpose of this book is not and cannot be to offer a complete overview of decades of research, but rather to question chronologies, evolutions and geographical polarisations that are too often considered obvious.…”

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Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe

Bellavitis

2018

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Women in Eighteenth Century Europe

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An integrative approach to studying plasticity in growth disruption and outcomes: A bioarchaeological case study of Napoleonic soldiers

An integrative approach to studying plasticity in growth disruption and outcomes: A bioarchaeological case study of Napoleonic soldiers

“Domestic Feminism”: The Politics of Reproduction and Motherhood in Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale

Women’s Work and Rights in Early Modern Urban Europe

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