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The 2015 Special Issue of G&H will be on the theme \u00ab Men at home \u00bb (as heads of families,<\/span>husbands, partners, fathers, sons, brothers, domestic workers…).<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>The creation of the Special Issue will be approached via a colloquium to be held at the University<\/span>of Urbino, Italy on 11th-12th April 2014.<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span>Context<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
<\/span>In the last two decades, gender historians have increasingly focused on the history of masculinity.<\/span>Their research has helped deconstruct dichotomies that mirrored long-standing ideologies about the<\/span>proper place for men and women and considered the public and private spheres as the domains of<\/span>men and women respectively. Several studies have in fact shown that the reality was generally<\/span>much more nuanced than one could imagine in the light of the aforementioned ideologies.<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>Whereas past studies had emphasized the crucial importance of the changes in civil status, and<\/span>particularly of marriage, for women rather than for men, more recent studies have shown that, in<\/span>pre-industrial times, marriage was crucial for the social status of men, too. These results have<\/span>prompted further debate, because the importance of marriage for men was indeed different in<\/span>different contexts: possibly more relevant in Central and Northern Europe and less important in<\/span>Southern Europe.<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>Being (or not being) the head of one?s family seems on the contrary very important everywhere in<\/span>determining the status of men, probably because this role, though associated with partially different<\/span>rights and duties according to the context, was always an authoritative one. The head of the family<\/span>normally belonged both to the domestic and the public spheres; in many contexts he was the only<\/span>member of the household who represented the other components in the public sphere and\/or<\/span>enjoyed political rights.<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>Thus particular attention should be paid to the importance, for men of different ages, of being in the<\/span>position of heads of their families, or in that of children, co-resident relatives or even servants.<\/span>Further research is needed to conclusively clarify these points and to establish if and which family<\/span>roles were fundamental in defining different types of male identities and status in specific social,<\/span>historical, and geographical contexts.<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>Law, religion and ethic established rights and duties for the head of the family as well as for<\/span>children, servants and other male members of a household, and were therefore important (though<\/span>not exclusive) factors in defining these roles: think, for instance, of the long-standing importance<\/span>(in many parts of Europe) of the definition of paterfamilias given by Roman Law, according to<\/span>2\/3<\/span>which the head of the family was not necessarily married nor necessarily had children; or of the<\/span>differences between the Catholic communities, with their Pope and clergy bound to celibacy, and<\/span>the Protestant ones, where the head of the family played a crucial role in leading and supervising<\/span>the family devotion.<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span><\/span>Related issues include the roles of men within the household in such fields as the education of<\/span>children, the management of family resources, caring and even cooking. While these activities<\/span>are often associated with women, this was\/is not always and everywhere the case. Contributing to<\/span>clarify the boundaries between male and female roles in specific contexts as well as their change<\/span>over time is one of the aims of the special issue.<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>Households were often units of consumption and\/or of production. Their economic role was<\/span>different according to economic sectors (i.e. agriculture, urban crafts, rural home industry, etc.),<\/span>class (i.e. different types of peasants, industrial working class, middle class, aristocracy, etc.),<\/span>periods (i.e. pre-industrial period, industrialization etc.), economic regions (i.e. rural and industrial<\/span>regions, colonies etc.). However, it was likely to play a major influence in shaping the division of<\/span>labour among their members as well as in determining in which way and to which degree the male<\/span>ones participated in the household economy. Thus a particular attention should be paid to the<\/span><\/div>\n
analysis of the economic role of households.<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>Great attention should also be paid to the subjective appraisal of the different roles and to the<\/span>way in which men may have colluded with or subverted dominant cultural constructions of what it<\/span>meant to be a (good) father, husband, son etc. in a given geographical, social, cultural context at a<\/span>given time, thus playing a conservative role or, on the contrary, contributing to cultural and social<\/span>change.<\/span>From this vantage point, the possible importance of personal features such as, for instance,<\/span>heterosexual or homosexual orientation in conditioning the attitude towards one?s
\n position within<\/span>the household should also be evaluated.<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span>Aim of the colloquium and of the Special Issue<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
<\/span>The aim of the colloquium and of the Special Issue is to bring together scholars working on<\/span>the history of masculinity in order to highlight on the one hand the roles performed by men at<\/span>home in different contexts and, on the other, the importance of those roles with regards to the<\/span>definition of different kinds of masculinity in specific social, historical and geographic contexts.<\/span>Periods of rapid transformation of family arrangements seem to be an especially interesting vantage<\/span>point, as particularly (but not only) in these periods tensions might have arisen between old and<\/span>new ideas about the \u00ab proper \u00bb roles of men (and women) on the one hand and the ?traditional’ ones<\/span>on the other, and\/or between (some) norms and (some) practice.<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>Proposals focusing on these issues are welcome, particularly if they try to place case studies in a<\/span>wider context or have a comparative approach (over time or space). Gender & History is<\/span>particularly interested in producing a multi-disciplinary volume which includes scholarship on a<\/span>wide range of periods, places, and cultures, and in which not only historical, but also<\/span>anthropological and sociological approaches are brought to bear on historical treatments of gender.<\/span>Thus trans-national comparative studies and work on pre-modern and non-Western cultures are<\/span>encouraged. Proposals focusing on the contemporary world are welcomed, too, provided that they<\/span>deal with the present in a historical perspective.<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>3\/3<\/span>Papers that, in addition to focusing on particular cases, will contribute to the theoretical thinking<\/span>about masculinity and gender will be especially appreciated. Both papers on specific case-studies<\/span>and papers attempting large overviews will be welcomed.<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span>Submission of proposals and schedule<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
<\/span>1 January 2013 Scholars and researchers are invited to submit proposals (750 words<\/span>maximum) by 1 January 2013.<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>1 March 2013 By 1st March 2013 submitters will be informed if their proposal has been<\/span>selected.<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>1 March 2014 The authors of the selected proposals will be invited to submit a full paper and<\/span>to attend the colloquium in Urbino; they will be expected to send their paper<\/span>by 1st March 2014 as a condition of participation.<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>11-12 April 2014 The colloquium will be held in Urbino on 11th-12th April 2014.<\/span><\/span>G&H asks scholars invited to present their papers to seek funds to cover their<\/span>travel expenses but will contribute as necessary. Accommodation as well as<\/span>breakfast and lunch for will be offered by the University of Urbino; G&H<\/span><\/div>\n
will offer one dinner; participants will fund their own dinners on other nights.<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>31 Dec 2014 After the colloquium, the editor will select about ten-twelve papers for<\/span>publication among those presented in Urbino; the authors of the papers<\/span>accepted for publication will receive the comments by the editor and by the<\/span>referees and will be expected to submit their revised text by 31st December<\/span>2014.<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>March 2014 This will allow the editor to work with the authors to produce the final text of t<\/span>he issue by March 2015 for publication in November 2015.<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/span>November 2015 Publication of the Special Issue.<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span>Proposals must be in English and proposers must make sure that they will present their papers in<\/span>English at the colloquium in Urbino; however, in order to stimulate participation from different<\/span>countries and cultural areas, the papers don’t need to be written in English. Accepted languages<\/span>are the following: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic, Chinese. In<\/span>certain circumstances it may be possible to translate articles submitted in languages other than<\/span>English and selected for publication in the Special Issue.<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span>Please send paper proposals (with return receipt) to raffaella.sarti@uniurb.it<\/a> by 1 January<\/span>2013.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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