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Women in History

Eighty six years ago on June 18, 1928, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic as a passenger aboard a Fokker tri-motor aircraft that was piloted by Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon. Just four years later, in 1932 Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean. She completed her 2,026 mile journey in under 15 hours after departing from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland.

Forty five years later on same date, June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly to space as a crew member on space shuttle Challenger for STS-7.

To celebrate women in history we invite you to browse through some of our Gender Studies titles:

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GENDER HISTORY IN A TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Networks, Biographies, Gender Orders
Edited by Oliver Janz and Daniel Schönpflug Continue reading “Women in History” →

Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Releases for March

German Politics and Society
Volume 32, Issue 1
This special issue is titled West Germany’s Cold War Radio: The Crucible of the Transatlantic Century.

Girlhood Studies
Volume 7, Issue 1
This special issue is titled Cultural Studies and the Re-description of Girls in Crisis.

French Politics, Culture & Society
Volume 32, Issue 1
The special issue is titled Representations, History, and Wartime France.

Historical Reflections
Volume 40, Issue 1
The special issue is titled War, Occupation, and Empire in France and Germany.

International Journal of Social Quality
Volume 3, Issue 2
This issue assembles contributions to inquire into the future of the “social” from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on sociology, political science, and law.

Learning and Teaching
Volume 6, Issue 3
This special issue is titled The Ethnography of the University, and it is dedicated to William F. Kelleher (1950-2013), inspiring teacher, brilliant thinker, activist scholar and co-founder of the Ethnography of the University initiative.

Projections
Volume 8, Issue 1
This issue ranges across avant-garde cinema, tear-jerking melodramas, the nature of historical trauma, and narratives that assume playful, game-like formats and that may be found in title sequences and trailers.

Regions & Cohesion
Volume 4, Issue 1
This issue opens with an article that furthers our critical analysis of regional social policy. This article is followed by two more that examine North American border politics as well as a Leadership Forum section and a Review Essay.

Social Analysis
Volume 58, Issue 1
The special issue is titled War Magic and Warrior Religion: Sorcery, Cognition, and Embodiment.

Transfers
Volume 4, Issue 1
The articles in this issue examine a variety of topics.

 

Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Releases for October

Girlhood Studies
Volume 6, Issue 2
This special issue of Girlhood Studies, titled Nordic Girls’ Studies: Current Themes and Theoretical Approaches, is the first GHS issue to be devoted to the study of girls living in a specific region.

Theoria
Volume 60, Issue 136
This special issue emerges from a concern with academic practice around researching and theorising race, racialism and racism; particularly within the current theoretical climate in which race is, in the majority, accepted as a social construct.

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
Volume 22, Issue 2
This special issue is entitled Being Muslims in the Balkans: Ethnographies of Identity, Politics and Vernacular Islam in Southeast Europe. 

Learning and Teaching
Volume 6, Issue 1
This issue features a selection of articles covering South and North America and concludes with responses to ‘The Academic Rat Race’, which was published in LATISS 5.2.

Journal of Romance Studies
Volume 13, Issue 2
This issue features articles covering a range of topics from short fiction of Portuguese-language writers to Ahmadou Kourouma and Gustave Courbet to a close reading of La Raulito/Little Raoul and, finally, major themes in Jacques Hassoun’s Alexandries. This issue also includes a review article and notes on contributors.

Historical Reflections
Volume 39, Issue 3
This special issue comprises articles exploring issues of nostalgia in modern France. The topics addressed are wide-ranging, from immigration to revolution and more.

Hot Off the Presses – New Journal Releases for June/July

Asia Pacific World
Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 2013
Includes transcripts of two keynote speeches from recent International Association for Asia Pacific Studies conferences.

Sibirica
Volume 12, Number 1, Spring 2013
Explores Siberia’s important role in the study of the emergence of pottery, maintaining the communal knowledge systems of the indigenous peoples of the circumpolar North and the process of cosmopolitan learning among hosts in a hospitality couchsurfing network.

International Journal of Social Quality
Features empirical papers from a large cross-cultural research project investigating social quality across six Asia-Pacific societies.

Journal of Romance Studies
Volume 13, Number 1, Spring 2013
Five articles covering a broad spectrum of topics including: the workings of the Islamic community in Italy, queer and intersex childhood in Argentine filmmaking, the literary and political work of Tunisian poet and theorist Abdelwahab Meddeb.

Anthropology in Action
Volume 20, Number 1, Spring 2013
Explores the relationship between modernist, global health promotion agendas and a more locally rooted approaches to improving health and wellbeing.

Social Analysis
Volume 57, Number 1, Spring 2013
This special issue is titled: Time and the Field.  By exploring and unfolding the temporal properties of the field, anthropology can favorably complement and extend the (spatially anchored) notion of multi-sited fieldwork with one of multi-temporal ethnography.

European Judaism
Volume 46, Number 1, Spring 2013
This issue gathers lectures delivered at four of the most recent Annual International Jewish-Christian-Muslim Student Conferences as well as other papers that reflect aspects of new thinking in the field of interfaith dialogue.

Israel Studies Review
Volume 28, Number 1, Spring 2013
This issue begins with the Forum, which focuses on a very current issue in Israel–the major attacks on, or abuses of, academic freedom.

European Comic Art
Volume 6, Number 1, Spring 2013
This issue is devoted to comics adaptations of literary works.

Girlhood Studies
Volume 6, Number 2, Spring 2013
This is the first issue of Girlhood Studies that we have devoted primarily to method and methodology related to deepening an understanding of girlhood and girls’ lives.

Nature and Culture
Volume 8, Number 2, Spring 2013
This issue covers a variety of topics such as the German energy transition, Love and Kill as mixed constructs in hunting and shifts in governance ushered in by the sustainability paradigm are reshaping knowledge governance.

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
Volume 22, Number 1, Spring 2013
Special issue on history and place-making.

 

Hot Off the Presses: New Journal Releases from Berghahn

Anthropology in Action
Volume 19, Issue 3, Winter 2012
Special issue on Tourism and Applied Anthropology in Theory and Praxis, with articles on village tourism in Cyprus, hospitality in Laos, surf tourism in Costa Rica, and wine tourism in the Temecula Valley.

German Politics and Society
Volume 30, Issue 4, Winter 2012
With articles on “Freie Wähler” in the German political system, migrant interests in Germany, and fairy tale heroes and heroines in an East German Heimat; also featuring a forum on research performance in Germany, and several book reviews.

Girlhood Studies
Volume 5, Issue 2, Winter 2012
Celebrating the tenth issue and the First Annual Day of the Girl (October 11), with articles spanning girls’ aggression and use of violence, quality of life, use of the internet, and book reviews.

Journeys
Volume 13, Issue 2, Winter 2012
Focusing on the places or trails where traumatic or miraculous events took place, and on the significance and meaning people put in the act of walking to and around these sites.

Learning and Teaching
Volume 5, Issue 1, Spring 2012
Special Issue on “Towards and Anthropology of Anthropology: the socialization of aspiring anthropologists”, with articles focusing on the education of anthropologists.

Aspasia
Volume 6, 2012
Celebrating 100 Years of International Women’s Day, with articles focusing on Russia, the Polish lands, and Greece; a review of the book Frauentag! (Women’s Day!); and a report on recent IWD-related events in Ukraine, including two exhibitions.

Is There Such Thing as “Low-Brow?” Taking Pop Culture Seriously

by Martha Hoffman, Journals Editorial and Production Manager

 

Maybe it’s my age, but sometimes I feel like two different people inhabit my mind: there’s the person that was obsessed with sociology in college, reading Critical Race Theory for fun and over-scheduling classes I didn’t need because I was genuinely excited at the thought of learning and figuring out what I was most passionate about. This is the half of me that feels most at home at Berghahn, the intellectually curious and studious parts of me thriving as I help in the production of academic and scholarly journals.

But there’s also the other part of me: the girl that loves reality television, blockbuster movies and popular music. I can spend hours looking for fun dance songs, watching network comedies and am willing to pay NYC movie theatre ticket prices to see a rom-com if a friend is willing to do the same.

The other day, I was working on creating an ad for a new issue of Girlhood Studies. I was looking at the last issue, and an article title caught my eye: “Some Assembly Required: Black Barbie and the Fabrication of Nicki Minaj.” The topic of Minaj has come up in my life from time to time, though it’s usually on the internet, radio or tv, and if anyone’s discussing her it’s usually not her merits or her culture significance but rather her butt, face or the fact that she can’t rap. It’s not that I think Minaj can’t rap, I’ve just noticed that the most vocal commentors of the artist are those insisting she’s not an artist to begin with. With any type of fame, knee-jerk vitriol seems to follow. Admittedly, my comments about her have often fallen into similarly shallow categories, albeit positive: I think she’s beautiful, funny and a decent rapper. However, other than those cursory observations, I don’t think I’ve ever stood back and thought about her in a larger context, whether it be from a gender-, race- or cultural standpoint.

Continue reading “Is There Such Thing as “Low-Brow?” Taking Pop Culture Seriously” →

Girls and Dolls: A Note on Images from the Latest Issue of Girlhood Studies

One of Mandrona's dolls, made when she was 8.

Most of my work deals with text, so it was a bit of a treat when I opened up the files for the latest Girlhood Studies and found them chock full of images of dolls. This journal covers many themes related to the challenges and dangers facing girls all over the world – it’s always such a pleasure to work on but I was particularly excited to see an issue that also speaks to the creative and serious play of girlhood. Dolls, needless to say, are cultural artefacts and reflect the society that makes them as well as the girls who play with them: an American Girl doll capturing an immigrant Jewish girlhood essentially whitewashed of tenements and the memory of pogroms; nineteenth-century paper dolls embodying both moral tales and fashion plates; Barbie and her Dream House reflecting the dimensions of modern architecture. All three of these examples are mediated by commercial culture and present tensions between cultural constructs and individual play. Continue reading “Girls and Dolls: A Note on Images from the Latest Issue of Girlhood Studies” →