Alison Twells
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1004969 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alison Twells |
| PRENOMES | Alison |
| SOBRENOME | Twells |
| ASSINATURA | TWELLS A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Sheffield Hallam University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2602-0029 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Undisciplined History
This article explores the relationship between scholarly practice and the growing field of creative histories. Drawing on examples from the United Kingdom, it seeks to unsettle dominant approaches to creative methodologies within our discipline and suggest what these more playful and experimental approaches might add to our practice as historians. Prompted by our encounters with the rich and vital histories made by schoolchildren, community group…
Eros the Great Leveller
This article focuses on the domestic and transnational dimensions of Edward Carpenter’s arguments for the naturalness and cultural significance of same-sex love. Drawing on the concept of “aspirational cosmotopianism,” defined by Clare Midgley as “a transnational and transcultural utopian space of interaction,” I explore the relationship between Carpenter’s representations of “comradely love” between men in Ancient Greece, Hindu mythology and cul…
Sex, Gender, and Romantic Intimacy in Servicemen's Letters During the Second World War
This article explores sex and romance as under-examined aspects of wartime masculinities through a focus on letters from servicemen recipients of woollen ‘comforts’ to girls and women who knitted for them during the Second World War. It examines the tension between the cultural ideal of ‘temperate heroism’ that formed the hegemonic masculinity during the Second World War and evidence of predatory male sexuality and sexual violence, both in combat…
Iron Dukes and Naked Races
This article explores the development of a public history walk based on the life of Edward Carpenter (1844–1929), late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Sheffield-based writer, campaigner and sex reformer. It argues that understanding the world in which Carpenter and his comrades, friends and lovers lived, dreamed and loved, requires attention to both the alterity of sexual experiences in the past and historical continuity in terms of sexua…
Migrant Women’s Voices
Migrant Women’s Voices: talking about life and work in the UK since 1945." Social History, 42(1), pp. 147–148
Women in Transnational History
Women in Transnational History offers a range of fresh perspectives on the field of women's history, exploring how cross-border connections and global developments since the nineteenth century have shaped diverse women's lives and the gendered social, cultural, political and economic histories of specific localities
Went into raptures
Despite the emergence of studies attentive to the difference between discourses about emotion and the experience of emotion, particularly within the histories of gender and sexuality, social class has been a neglected category. More specifically, those historical sources which enable engagement with a subject’s emotional life have been largely produced by middle-class and elite individuals and groups. It remains notoriously difficult to gain acce…
Infidel Feminism
Laura Schwartz's important new study opens with a vignette from 1860, where Freethinking feminist Harriet Law defends Eve's rebellion against an authoritarian God. This snapshot of a woman refusing
Jane SHAW. Octavia, Daughter of God
Jane Shaw's book explores the history of the Panacea Society, founded in 1919 by Mabel Bartrop, a curate's widow and a mother of four children. As Shaw outlines in her preface, some seventy members of the society lived together in Bedford in the 1920s and 1930s, and membership peaked in 1923 at 130,000 in Britain and throughout the world. Bartrop was renamed Octavia by her followers, who believed she was a female messiah. The book is organized in…
The innate yearnings of our souls’
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in women's involvement in nineteenth-century religious cultures. However, the overwhelming focus remains firmly on the role of religion in providing motivation, sustenance and justification for women's involvement in feminism and other public campaigns. Questions of faith and devotion, spirituality and Christian selfhood, and the relationship of spiritual freedom to other liberations – religious iss…
Victorians and the Virgin Mary
CAROL ENGELHARDT HERRINGER Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2008 Pp. x + 221. £55.00. ISBN 978 0 7190 7753 1 Victorians and the Virgin Mary, by Carol Engelhardt Herringer, is a
Introduction
Writing of the Somerset village of Cheddar in 1789, Martha (Patty) More stated that there was ‘as much knowledge of Christ in the interior of Africa as there is to be met with in this wretched, miserable place.’ 1 The people were ‘savages’, ‘depraved and wretched’, ‘brutal in their natures and ferocious in their manners.’ 2 According to Martha More’s more famous sister Hannah, writing to Elizabeth Montagu about her plans for a Sunday school, they…
‘Bringing about the World’s Restoration’
Heathenism and savagery were bound up in the evangelical imagination with domestic cruelty and women’s oppression, and the necessity for domestic reform was in evidence all over the globe. In India, home to the first mission station of the Baptist Missionary Society (BMS) and the destination of the pioneering independent female missionaries of the 1820s and 1830s, the low status accorded to women was believed to prevent social change. As suggeste…
The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1792–1850
This volume concerns the missionary philanthropic movement which burst onto the social scene in early nineteenth century in England, becoming a popular provincial movement which sought no less than na
British Women’s History
This new anthology brings together excerpts from over one hundred documents detailing women's experiences from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of World War I. It looks in detail at all aspects of life for women in Britain in this period, including motherhood, marriage and domestic life; religion, philanthropy and politics; work; education; the migration of Irish, Jewish and Black and Asian women to Britain; women in the Empire; and ea…
Missionary ‘Fathers’ and Wayward ‘Sons’ in the South Pacific, 1797–1825
Fatherhood was central to nineteenth-century evangelical theology and social theory.1 As Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall have shown, the family on earth was to emulate the heavenly family. Women’s role was to ‘guide the house’ and bring up children, extending their maternal skills to the care of the local community and, more contestedly, to the regeneration of the nation. Sermons and conduct books disseminated knowledge of biblical fathers su…
Missionary Domesticity, Global Reform and ‘Woman's Sphere’ in Early Nineteenth‐Century England
Happy english children”
Thematic Reviews
Clare Midgley, Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780‐1870 Moira Ferguson (ed.) The Hart Sisters: Early African Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and Radicals Moira Ferguson, Colonialism and Gender from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid: East Caribbean Connections Doris Y. Kadish and Françoise Massardier‐Kenney (eds) Translating Slavery: Gender and Race in French Women's Writing, 1783‐1823 Michael Moon and Cathy N. Davidson (eds) …
A state of infancy’
So distant and wild a scene
Hannah Kilham (1774-1832), a Sheffield Quaker, was involved in philanthropic, educational and missionary work with women in Britain, Ireland and West Africa in the early nineteenth century. In this article the author focuses upon Hannah Kilham's. engagement in the religious and domestic education of African girls and women in the 1820s and 1830s. Through representations of African women as in need of her ‘civilising influence’, Kilham was able to…
Happy english children”
Migrant Women’s Voices
Migrant Women’s Voices: talking about life and work in the UK since 1945." Social History, 42(1), pp. 147–148
Went into raptures
Despite the emergence of studies attentive to the difference between discourses about emotion and the experience of emotion, particularly within the histories of gender and sexuality, social class has been a neglected category. More specifically, those historical sources which enable engagement with a subject’s emotional life have been largely produced by middle-class and elite individuals and groups. It remains notoriously difficult to gain acce…
Missionary Domesticity, Global Reform and ‘Woman's Sphere’ in Early Nineteenth‐Century England
So distant and wild a scene
Hannah Kilham (1774-1832), a Sheffield Quaker, was involved in philanthropic, educational and missionary work with women in Britain, Ireland and West Africa in the early nineteenth century. In this article the author focuses upon Hannah Kilham's. engagement in the religious and domestic education of African girls and women in the 1820s and 1830s. Through representations of African women as in need of her ‘civilising influence’, Kilham was able to…
Undisciplined History
This article explores the relationship between scholarly practice and the growing field of creative histories. Drawing on examples from the United Kingdom, it seeks to unsettle dominant approaches to creative methodologies within our discipline and suggest what these more playful and experimental approaches might add to our practice as historians. Prompted by our encounters with the rich and vital histories made by schoolchildren, community group…
So distant and wild a scene
Hannah Kilham (1774-1832), a Sheffield Quaker, was involved in philanthropic, educational and missionary work with women in Britain, Ireland and West Africa in the early nineteenth century. In this article the author focuses upon Hannah Kilham's. engagement in the religious and domestic education of African girls and women in the 1820s and 1830s. Through representations of African women as in need of her ‘civilising influence’, Kilham was able to…
Thematic Reviews
Clare Midgley, Women Against Slavery: The British Campaigns, 1780‐1870 Moira Ferguson (ed.) The Hart Sisters: Early African Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and Radicals Moira Ferguson, Colonialism and Gender from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid: East Caribbean Connections Doris Y. Kadish and Françoise Massardier‐Kenney (eds) Translating Slavery: Gender and Race in French Women's Writing, 1783‐1823 Michael Moon and Cathy N. Davidson (eds) …
A state of infancy’
Happy english children”
Missionary Domesticity, Global Reform and ‘Woman's Sphere’ in Early Nineteenth‐Century England
British Women’s History
This new anthology brings together excerpts from over one hundred documents detailing women's experiences from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of World War I. It looks in detail at all aspects of life for women in Britain in this period, including motherhood, marriage and domestic life; religion, philanthropy and politics; work; education; the migration of Irish, Jewish and Black and Asian women to Britain; women in the Empire; and ea…
Missionary ‘Fathers’ and Wayward ‘Sons’ in the South Pacific, 1797–1825
Fatherhood was central to nineteenth-century evangelical theology and social theory.1 As Leonore Davidoff and Catherine Hall have shown, the family on earth was to emulate the heavenly family. Women’s role was to ‘guide the house’ and bring up children, extending their maternal skills to the care of the local community and, more contestedly, to the regeneration of the nation. Sermons and conduct books disseminated knowledge of biblical fathers su…
Introduction
Writing of the Somerset village of Cheddar in 1789, Martha (Patty) More stated that there was ‘as much knowledge of Christ in the interior of Africa as there is to be met with in this wretched, miserable place.’ 1 The people were ‘savages’, ‘depraved and wretched’, ‘brutal in their natures and ferocious in their manners.’ 2 According to Martha More’s more famous sister Hannah, writing to Elizabeth Montagu about her plans for a Sunday school, they…
‘Bringing about the World’s Restoration’
Heathenism and savagery were bound up in the evangelical imagination with domestic cruelty and women’s oppression, and the necessity for domestic reform was in evidence all over the globe. In India, home to the first mission station of the Baptist Missionary Society (BMS) and the destination of the pioneering independent female missionaries of the 1820s and 1830s, the low status accorded to women was believed to prevent social change. As suggeste…
The Civilising Mission and the English Middle Class, 1792–1850
This volume concerns the missionary philanthropic movement which burst onto the social scene in early nineteenth century in England, becoming a popular provincial movement which sought no less than na
Victorians and the Virgin Mary
CAROL ENGELHARDT HERRINGER Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2008 Pp. x + 221. £55.00. ISBN 978 0 7190 7753 1 Victorians and the Virgin Mary, by Carol Engelhardt Herringer, is a
The innate yearnings of our souls’
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in women's involvement in nineteenth-century religious cultures. However, the overwhelming focus remains firmly on the role of religion in providing motivation, sustenance and justification for women's involvement in feminism and other public campaigns. Questions of faith and devotion, spirituality and Christian selfhood, and the relationship of spiritual freedom to other liberations – religious iss…
Jane SHAW. Octavia, Daughter of God
Jane Shaw's book explores the history of the Panacea Society, founded in 1919 by Mabel Bartrop, a curate's widow and a mother of four children. As Shaw outlines in her preface, some seventy members of the society lived together in Bedford in the 1920s and 1930s, and membership peaked in 1923 at 130,000 in Britain and throughout the world. Bartrop was renamed Octavia by her followers, who believed she was a female messiah. The book is organized in…
Infidel Feminism
Laura Schwartz's important new study opens with a vignette from 1860, where Freethinking feminist Harriet Law defends Eve's rebellion against an authoritarian God. This snapshot of a woman refusing
Women in Transnational History
Women in Transnational History offers a range of fresh perspectives on the field of women's history, exploring how cross-border connections and global developments since the nineteenth century have shaped diverse women's lives and the gendered social, cultural, political and economic histories of specific localities
Went into raptures
Despite the emergence of studies attentive to the difference between discourses about emotion and the experience of emotion, particularly within the histories of gender and sexuality, social class has been a neglected category. More specifically, those historical sources which enable engagement with a subject’s emotional life have been largely produced by middle-class and elite individuals and groups. It remains notoriously difficult to gain acce…
Migrant Women’s Voices
Migrant Women’s Voices: talking about life and work in the UK since 1945." Social History, 42(1), pp. 147–148
Iron Dukes and Naked Races
This article explores the development of a public history walk based on the life of Edward Carpenter (1844–1929), late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Sheffield-based writer, campaigner and sex reformer. It argues that understanding the world in which Carpenter and his comrades, friends and lovers lived, dreamed and loved, requires attention to both the alterity of sexual experiences in the past and historical continuity in terms of sexua…
Sex, Gender, and Romantic Intimacy in Servicemen's Letters During the Second World War
This article explores sex and romance as under-examined aspects of wartime masculinities through a focus on letters from servicemen recipients of woollen ‘comforts’ to girls and women who knitted for them during the Second World War. It examines the tension between the cultural ideal of ‘temperate heroism’ that formed the hegemonic masculinity during the Second World War and evidence of predatory male sexuality and sexual violence, both in combat…
Eros the Great Leveller
This article focuses on the domestic and transnational dimensions of Edward Carpenter’s arguments for the naturalness and cultural significance of same-sex love. Drawing on the concept of “aspirational cosmotopianism,” defined by Clare Midgley as “a transnational and transcultural utopian space of interaction,” I explore the relationship between Carpenter’s representations of “comradely love” between men in Ancient Greece, Hindu mythology and cul…
Undisciplined History
This article explores the relationship between scholarly practice and the growing field of creative histories. Drawing on examples from the United Kingdom, it seeks to unsettle dominant approaches to creative methodologies within our discipline and suggest what these more playful and experimental approaches might add to our practice as historians. Prompted by our encounters with the rich and vital histories made by schoolchildren, community group…
History (17 obras) · Sociology (16 obras) · Gender Studies (13 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Art (9 obras) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (8 obras) · Philosophy (8 obras) · History (7 obras) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (5 obras)