Gender and Protest: On the Historical and Contemporary Interrelation of Two Social Phenomena

Open Access For centuries women and other “gendered minorities” had to protest to gain equality. Their demands were often matched by counter-protest from conservative forces within historical societies that intended to return to “old orders” or “good old times.” The present volume will take a closer look at the interrelationship between gender and protest and analyze in detail how gender-related perspectives stimulated protests and initiated historical changes. Through historical case studies that range from antiquity until modern times, specialists from different countries and disciplines discuss reasons for protest, gender as a factor that stimulated social conflicts, and the power of gendered protests of the past with regards to their impact and long-term impact until today. Table of Contents 1 Introduction: On the Interrelation of Gender and Protest 2 Women, War, and Dynasty: Tomyris versus Kyros in Herodotos and Polyainos 3 The Voice of Reason or Unintended Protest? Whetting by Servile Women in the Íslendingasǫgur 4 Aristocratic Women as Leaders of Dissent in Medieval Scandinavia: Source Misrepresentation, or Agency through Ultranormativity? 5 Secrecy, Seduction and Protest among Women: Litigation over a Marriage in 17th-Century Barcelona 6 Emma Goldman, Gender Related Protest, and Anarchist Radicalism as a Crime 7 Female Education as a Form of Protest: How 19 th -Century Women Were Trained to Resist in New York City 8 Male Radicalism in the Wake of Revolution and Antimilitarism: A Norwegian Case Study 9 On the Role and Patterns of Female (Protest) Action in the February Uprising of 1934 10 The Cultivation of Militant Masculinity: Gender-Specific Dimensions of Violence and the National Socialist Stormtroopers 11 Feminist Protest as Body Politics 12 Antifeminism, Anti-genderism, and the (Religious) Right: A Case Study of Antiabortion Activism in Saarbrücken 13 Contributors Index Terms