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What’s Left of E.P. Thompson? Reflections on an Anti-Progressive
Full text linkCal Winslow, ed., E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and Polemics (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2014).Christos Efstathiou, E.P. Thompson: A Twentieth-Century Romantic (London: Merlin Press, 2015)
Wendy Matsumura, The Limits of Okinawa: Japanese Capitalism, Living Labor, and Theorizations of Community (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015).
Full text linkBrooke N. Newman, A Dark Inheritance: Blood, Race, and Sex in Colonial Jamaica (Yale University Press, 2018).
No full textGaston Leval, Collectives in the Spanish Revolution, translated by Vernon Richards (Oakland: Freedom and PM Press, 2018).
Full text linkFemale Genital Mutilation and Gender Politics in Modern Egypt
Full text linkMaria Frederika Malmström, The Politics of Female Circumcision in Egypt: Gender, Sexuality and the Construction of Identity (London and New York: I.B. Taurus Press, 2016).Heidi Morrison, Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt (London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).Nefissa Naguib, Nurturing Masculinities: Men, Food and Family in Contemporary Egypt (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015)
Barry Wright, Eric Tucker, and Susan Binnie, eds., Security, Dissent, and the Limits of Toleration in War and Peace, 1914-1939, Canadian State Trials, vol. IV (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015).
Full text linkReading the Archives of the Illicit: Gender, Labour, and Race in Helen McGowan’s Motor City Madam
Full text linkThis essay explores the gender, racial, and labour politics in Helen McGowan’s Motor City Madam, an autobiography written by a woman who worked as a prostitute and madam in Detroit, Michigan from the 1920s to the 1960s. Using the text as a case study, it examines how historians can utilize autobiography in order to excavate the subjective experiences of women who worked in illicit forms of labour. In blending feminist literary theory with the methodologies of social and labour historians, this essay moves beyond the strict letter of the text in order to analyze how the author tells her personal narrative. It argues that McGowan frames her story first and foremost as one of labour, and in doing do, forms pointed critiques of gender, class, and racial inequality in industries cities at mid-century. McGowan develops a proto-feminist defense of sex work as work, and pushes for legalized prostitution at a time in which vice codes remained strictly intact. By analyzing autobiographies like Motor City Madam as constructions of subjectivity rather than simply empirical sources, we can gain important insight to the voices of working peoples often relegated to the margins of labour history
