Donna R. Gabaccia is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She is author of We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans (1998), Italy’s Many Diasporas (2000), and Foreign Relations: Global Perspectives on U.S. Immigration (2012); she is also co-editor of Intimacy and Italian Migration: Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World (with Loretta Baldassar, 2010). Gabaccia is on the editorial board of Gender & History, Journal of American Ethnic History and Journal of Modern Italian Studies.  Mary Jo Maynes is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Taking the Hard Road: Life Course and Class Identity in French and German Workers' Autobiographies of the Industrial Era (1995) and co-author of Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History (with Jennifer Pierce and Barbara Laslett, 2008) and Family: A World History (with Ann Waltner, 2012). She is on the editorial board of Gender & History, the Journal of Global History, and the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth.

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• Notes on Contributors viiIntroduction: Gender History Across Epistemologies 1DONNA R. GABACCIA AND MARY JO MAYNES1 Master Narratives and the Wall Painting of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii 20BETH SEVERY-HOVEN2 ‘More Beautiful than Words & Pencil Can Express’: Barbara Bodichon’s Artistic Career at the Interface of her Epistolary and Visual Self Projections 61MERITXELL SIMON-MARTIN3 Public Motherhood in West Africa as Theory and Practice 80LORELLE SEMLEY4 Profiling the Female Emigrant: A Method of Linguistic Inquiry for Examining Correspondence Collections 97EMMA MORETON5 Beyond Constructivism?: Gender, Medicine and the Early History of Sperm Analysis, Germany 1870–1900 127CHRISTINA BENNINGHAUS6 ‘I Just Express My Views & Leave Them to Work’: Olive Schreiner as a Feminist Protagonist in a Masculine Political Landscape with Figures 157LIZ STANLEY AND HELEN DAMPIER7 Gender without Groups: Confession, Resistance and Selfhood in the Colonial Archive 181CHRISTOPHER J. LEE8 The Power of Renewable Resources: Orlando’s Tactical Engagement with the Law of Intestacy 198JAMIE L. MCDANIEL9 The Politics of Gender Concepts in Genetics and Hormone Research in Germany, 1900–1940 215HELGA SATZINGER10 The Language of Gender in Lovers’ Correspondence, 1946–1949 235SONIA CANCIAN11 Gender-Bending in El Teatro Campesino (1968–1980): A Mestiza Epistemology of Performance 246MEREDITH HELLER12 Changing Paradigms in Migration Studies: From Men to Women to Gender 262NANCY L. GREEN13 Reconsidering Categories of Analysis: Possibilities for Feminist Studies of Conflict 279SHIRIN SAEIDI14 An Epistemology of Collusion: Hijras, Kothis and the Historical (Dis)continuity of Gender/Sexual Identities in Eastern India 305ANIRUDDHA DUTTAIndex 331