Marjorie Levine‐clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 1122910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marjorie Levine‐clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marjorie |
| FAMILY NAME | Levine‐clark |
| SIGNATURE | CLARK M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6679-4371 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Embodying Unemployment
In their 2007 essay “‘The Body’ as a Useful Category for Working-Class History,” feminist scholars Ava Baron and Eileen Boris urged labor historians to consider “Why and in what ways ... bodies matter for studies of work and the working class.” While scholars have written histories attentive to cultural assumptions about bodies at work, the impact of employment on the human body, and people’s experiences of their working bodies, little considerat…
It is Sometimes Soul-Destroying”
Disability in the Industrial Revolution
David Turner and Daniel Blackie’s fascinating study illuminates the worlds of men (and some women) who suffered lifelong disabilities in three major coal fields in Britain – north-east England, cen
Claire Brock. British Women Surgeons and Their Patients, 1860–1918
Feminist historians writing about the history of women and surgery have almost universally represented surgeons as powerful men who experimented on, exploited, and misused women’s passive bodies, often without their consent. The histories of the gynecological surgeons J. Marion Sims (whose statue was recently removed from New York City’s Central Park) and Isaac Baker Brown of London are perhaps two of the most egregious. Claire Brock takes us far…
Gender and Class in English Asylums, 1890-1914, Louise Hide
"Gender and Class in English Asylums, 1890–1914, Louise Hide." Women's History Review, 26(2), pp. 304–305
Julie-Marie Strange. Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865–1914
Histories of the family have overwhelmingly focused on mothers and children. Julie-Marie Strange’s study of fatherhood is one of several that have appeared in the last decade, showing the maturation of the field to encompass men’s roles within the family and to interrogate men’s gendered identities. In the British case, John Tosh’s work on the history of masculinity in the nineteenth century has made explicit calls to historians to examine men as…
Unemployment, Welfare, and Masculine Citizenship
This book examines how, from the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, British policymakers, welfare providers, and working-class men struggled to accommodate men's dependence on the state within
Childcare, Health and Mortality at the London Foundling Hospital, 1741–1800
Reviewed by: Childcare, Health and Mortality at the London Foundling Hospital, 1741–1800: “Left to the Mercy of the World.” by Alysa Levene Marjorie Levine-Clark Alysa Levene. Childcare, Health and Mortality at the London Foundling Hospital, 1741–1800: “Left to the Mercy of the World.” Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. xi + 223 pp. Ill. £14.99 (978-0-7190-7355-7). In this short, tightly argued book, Alysa Levene provides a quantitati…
The Entombment of Thomas Shaw”
“The Entombment of Thomas Shaw”:Mining Accidents and the Politics of Workers’ Bodies Marjorie Levine-Clark (bio) On 25 January 1877, “a fall of coal” at the Homer Hill Colliery in the West Midlands town of Cradley trapped the miner Thomas Shaw underground. According to James Baker, the government mines inspector for the region, local men worked “vigorously ... for several days and nights” but failed to reach Shaw’s body because a “smouldering fir…
Julia Laite. Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens
Julia Laite has written a smart book in accessible prose that adds significantly to the history of prostitutes as people and prostitution as vice in Britain. She shifts attention forward from the well-studied Contagious Diseases Acts and the movement to abolish them to examine “the trend toward more efficient identification and criminalization of prostitute women” (p. 117). This process first grew out of the 1885 Criminal Amendment Act and became…
The Politics of Preference
This article explores relationships between masculinity and welfare in post-First World War Britain through an analysis of unemployment relief. While their service to the nation entitled them to government benefits, veterans of the First World War fit into a context of already-existing unemployment relief schemes and already-established assumptions about who was deserving of state assistance, which privileged married men with children. The politi…
From ‘Relief’ to ‘Justice and Protection’
In the early twentieth century, local British poor law guardians’ concerns with the maintenance of deserted and neglected families were transformed into imperial, and later transnational, policy promoting justice for abandoned wives and children. Both local court cases concerning maintenance and policy debates at the national and imperial levels reveal the ways in which a breadwinner model of masculinity shaped maintenance policy and practice. Al…
Protesting about Pauperism
Protesting about Pauperism: Poverty, Politics and Poor Relief in Late-Victorian England, 1870–1900." Social History, 34(3), pp. 384–385
Imagined Orphans
Reviewed by: Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London Marjorie Levine-Clark Lydia Murdoch . Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London. The Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006. xii + 252 pp. Ill. $44.95 (ISBN-10: 0-8135-3722-3; ISBN-13:978-0-8135-3722-1). Lydia Murdoch's well-researched, well-illustrated, and cl…
We might be trusted
The Gendered Economy of Family Liability
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Testing the reproductive hypothesis
Using patient case records from University College Hospital in London in the 1830s and 1840s, this article re-evaluates the reproductive model of Victorian women's health. The women who were admitted to UCH were working-class women, and the evidence from the patient records suggests that their understandings of their bodies both conflicted with and supported the Victorian medical model of women as biologically fragile and delicate as a result of …
Dysfunctional Domesticity
Dysfunctional Domesticity” contributes to the growing reevaluation of the importance of the history of the family to understanding the history of insanity. Using patient case histories from the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, this article examines representations of family life among the poor in England in the 1830s and 1840s. Among the so-called moral causes of insanity, family relationships held a prominent place. Female patients more than m…
The Gendered Economy of Family Liability
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Disability in the Industrial Revolution
David Turner and Daniel Blackie’s fascinating study illuminates the worlds of men (and some women) who suffered lifelong disabilities in three major coal fields in Britain – north-east England, cen
Protesting about Pauperism
Protesting about Pauperism: Poverty, Politics and Poor Relief in Late-Victorian England, 1870–1900." Social History, 34(3), pp. 384–385
The Entombment of Thomas Shaw”
“The Entombment of Thomas Shaw”:Mining Accidents and the Politics of Workers’ Bodies Marjorie Levine-Clark (bio) On 25 January 1877, “a fall of coal” at the Homer Hill Colliery in the West Midlands town of Cradley trapped the miner Thomas Shaw underground. According to James Baker, the government mines inspector for the region, local men worked “vigorously ... for several days and nights” but failed to reach Shaw’s body because a “smouldering fir…
Dysfunctional Domesticity
Dysfunctional Domesticity” contributes to the growing reevaluation of the importance of the history of the family to understanding the history of insanity. Using patient case histories from the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, this article examines representations of family life among the poor in England in the 1830s and 1840s. Among the so-called moral causes of insanity, family relationships held a prominent place. Female patients more than m…
Dysfunctional Domesticity
Dysfunctional Domesticity” contributes to the growing reevaluation of the importance of the history of the family to understanding the history of insanity. Using patient case histories from the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, this article examines representations of family life among the poor in England in the 1830s and 1840s. Among the so-called moral causes of insanity, family relationships held a prominent place. Female patients more than m…
Testing the reproductive hypothesis
Using patient case records from University College Hospital in London in the 1830s and 1840s, this article re-evaluates the reproductive model of Victorian women's health. The women who were admitted to UCH were working-class women, and the evidence from the patient records suggests that their understandings of their bodies both conflicted with and supported the Victorian medical model of women as biologically fragile and delicate as a result of …
The Gendered Economy of Family Liability
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Imagined Orphans
Reviewed by: Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London Marjorie Levine-Clark Lydia Murdoch . Imagined Orphans: Poor Families, Child Welfare, and Contested Citizenship in London. The Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006. xii + 252 pp. Ill. $44.95 (ISBN-10: 0-8135-3722-3; ISBN-13:978-0-8135-3722-1). Lydia Murdoch's well-researched, well-illustrated, and cl…
We might be trusted
Protesting about Pauperism
Protesting about Pauperism: Poverty, Politics and Poor Relief in Late-Victorian England, 1870–1900." Social History, 34(3), pp. 384–385
The Politics of Preference
This article explores relationships between masculinity and welfare in post-First World War Britain through an analysis of unemployment relief. While their service to the nation entitled them to government benefits, veterans of the First World War fit into a context of already-existing unemployment relief schemes and already-established assumptions about who was deserving of state assistance, which privileged married men with children. The politi…
From ‘Relief’ to ‘Justice and Protection’
In the early twentieth century, local British poor law guardians’ concerns with the maintenance of deserted and neglected families were transformed into imperial, and later transnational, policy promoting justice for abandoned wives and children. Both local court cases concerning maintenance and policy debates at the national and imperial levels reveal the ways in which a breadwinner model of masculinity shaped maintenance policy and practice. Al…
Julia Laite. Common Prostitutes and Ordinary Citizens
Julia Laite has written a smart book in accessible prose that adds significantly to the history of prostitutes as people and prostitution as vice in Britain. She shifts attention forward from the well-studied Contagious Diseases Acts and the movement to abolish them to examine “the trend toward more efficient identification and criminalization of prostitute women” (p. 117). This process first grew out of the 1885 Criminal Amendment Act and became…
The Entombment of Thomas Shaw”
“The Entombment of Thomas Shaw”:Mining Accidents and the Politics of Workers’ Bodies Marjorie Levine-Clark (bio) On 25 January 1877, “a fall of coal” at the Homer Hill Colliery in the West Midlands town of Cradley trapped the miner Thomas Shaw underground. According to James Baker, the government mines inspector for the region, local men worked “vigorously ... for several days and nights” but failed to reach Shaw’s body because a “smouldering fir…
Unemployment, Welfare, and Masculine Citizenship
This book examines how, from the late nineteenth century through the 1920s, British policymakers, welfare providers, and working-class men struggled to accommodate men's dependence on the state within
Childcare, Health and Mortality at the London Foundling Hospital, 1741–1800
Reviewed by: Childcare, Health and Mortality at the London Foundling Hospital, 1741–1800: “Left to the Mercy of the World.” by Alysa Levene Marjorie Levine-Clark Alysa Levene. Childcare, Health and Mortality at the London Foundling Hospital, 1741–1800: “Left to the Mercy of the World.” Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. xi + 223 pp. Ill. £14.99 (978-0-7190-7355-7). In this short, tightly argued book, Alysa Levene provides a quantitati…
Julie-Marie Strange. Fatherhood and the British Working Class, 1865–1914
Histories of the family have overwhelmingly focused on mothers and children. Julie-Marie Strange’s study of fatherhood is one of several that have appeared in the last decade, showing the maturation of the field to encompass men’s roles within the family and to interrogate men’s gendered identities. In the British case, John Tosh’s work on the history of masculinity in the nineteenth century has made explicit calls to historians to examine men as…
Gender and Class in English Asylums, 1890-1914, Louise Hide
"Gender and Class in English Asylums, 1890–1914, Louise Hide." Women's History Review, 26(2), pp. 304–305
Claire Brock. British Women Surgeons and Their Patients, 1860–1918
Feminist historians writing about the history of women and surgery have almost universally represented surgeons as powerful men who experimented on, exploited, and misused women’s passive bodies, often without their consent. The histories of the gynecological surgeons J. Marion Sims (whose statue was recently removed from New York City’s Central Park) and Isaac Baker Brown of London are perhaps two of the most egregious. Claire Brock takes us far…
Disability in the Industrial Revolution
David Turner and Daniel Blackie’s fascinating study illuminates the worlds of men (and some women) who suffered lifelong disabilities in three major coal fields in Britain – north-east England, cen
It is Sometimes Soul-Destroying”
Embodying Unemployment
In their 2007 essay “‘The Body’ as a Useful Category for Working-Class History,” feminist scholars Ava Baron and Eileen Boris urged labor historians to consider “Why and in what ways ... bodies matter for studies of work and the working class.” While scholars have written histories attentive to cultural assumptions about bodies at work, the impact of employment on the human body, and people’s experiences of their working bodies, little considerat…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · History (9 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (6 works)