Table of Contents

Issue Information
Issue Information (pages 1–3)
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Abstracts

ABSTRACTS (pages 4–7)
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Articles

Gendering Dark Age Jesus (pages 8–33)
Lynda Coon
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Handywomen and Birthing in Rural Ireland, 1851–1955 (pages 34–56)
Ciara Breathnach
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12176

The Curse of Civilised Woman: Race, Gender and the Pain of Childbirth in Nineteenth-Century American Medicine (pages 57–76)
Miriam Rich
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12177

Achilles or Adonis: Controversies Surrounding the Male Body as National Symbol in Georgian England (pages 77–101)
Henk de Smaele
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12178

Erotic Attachment, Identity Formation and the Body Politic: The Woman-as-nation in Canadian Graphic Satire, 1867–1914 (pages 102–126)
Carmen J. Nielson
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12179

An Archive of Difference: Syrian Women, the Peddling Economy and US Social Welfare, 1880–1935 (pages 127–149)
Charlotte Karem Albrecht
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12180

‘The Gospel of Health’: American Missionaries and the Transformation of Ottoman/Turkish Women's Bodies, 1890–1932 (pages 150–176)
Caroline Kahlenberg
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12181

The Problem that Had a Name: French High-Rise Developments and the Fantasy of a Suburban Homemaker Pathology, 1954–73 (pages 177–198)
Michael Mulvey
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12182

The Company Owns the Mine but They Don't Own Us: Feminist Critiques of Capitalism in the Coalfields of Kentucky in the 1970s (pages 199–220)
Jessica Wilkerson
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Reviews

Post-1800

R. Tyson Smith, Fighting for Recognition: Identity, Masculinity, and the Act of Violence in Professional Wrestling (London: Duke University Press, 2014), pp. xvi + 220. ISBN 978-0-8223-5709-4 (hb); 978-0-8223-5722-3 (pb). (pages 221–222)
ALEX CHANNON
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12184

Jad Adams, Women & the Vote: A World History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 516. ISBN 978-0-198-70684-7 (hb). (pages 223–224)
SUMITA MUKHERJEE
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12185

Tracy Adams, Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014), pp. 220. ISBN 978-0-271-05071-3. (pages 225–226)
ZITA EVA ROHR
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12186

Paula J. Martin, Suzanne Noël: Cosmetic Surgery, Feminism and Beauty in Early Twentieth-Century France (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014), pp. 157. ISBN 978-1-472-41188-4 (hb). (pages 227–228)
SUSANNAH WILSON
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12187

Molly Tambor, The Lost Wave: Women and Democracy in Postwar Italy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. ix + 231. ISBN 978-0-199-37823-4 (hb). (pages 229–230)
PERRY WILLSON
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12188

Kimberly A. Martin, From Eve to Evolution: Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age America (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2014), pp. 238. ISBN: 978-0-226-13461-1 (hb); ISBN: 0-226-13461-X (pb). (pages 231–232)
JANET FLOYD
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12189

Megan Threlkeld, Pan American Women: US Internationalists and Revolutionary Mexico (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014), pp. 246. ISBN 978-0-812-24633-9 (hb). (pages 233–234)
MARK PETERSEN
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12190

Katharine Mitchell, Italian Women Writers: Gender and Everyday Life in Fiction and Journalism 1870–1910 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), pp. xii + 250. ISBN 978-1-442-64641-4 (hb). (pages 235–236)
JOANNE LEE
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12191

Laura Seddon, British Women Composers and Instrumental Chamber Music in the Earliest Twentieth Century (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 248. ISBN 978-1-409-43945-5 (hb). (pages 237–238)
LISA COLTON
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12192

Hester Vaizey, Born in the GDR: Living in the Shadow of the Wall (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. xiii + 224. ISBN 978-0-198-71873-4 (hb). (pages 239–240)
MARCEL THOMAS
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12193

Pre-1800

Simone Laqua-O'Donnell, Women and the Counter-Reformation in Early Modern Münster (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. xiv + 240. ISBN: 978-0-199-68331-4 (hb). (pages 241–242)
ULRIKE STRASSER
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12194

Kenneth Loiselle, Brotherly Love: Freemasonry and Male Friendship in Enlightenment France (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014), pp. xiii + 261. ISBN 978-0-801-45243-7 (hb). (pages 243–244)
SUZANNE DESAN
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12195

Fiona J. Griffiths and Julie Hotchin (eds), Partners in Spirit: Women, Men, and Religious Life in Germany, 1100–1500 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), pp. x + 427. ISBN 978–2-503-54096-2 (hb). (pages 245–246)
AMY HOLLYWOOD
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12196

Jennifer Evans, Aphrodisiacs, Fertility and Medicine in Early Modern England (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2014), pp. x + 215. ISBN: 978-0-861-93324-2 (hb). (pages 247–248)
VICTORIA SPAREY
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12197

Kimberley Schutte, Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485–2000: An Open Elite? (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. xi + 290. ISBN 978-1-137-32779-6 (hb). (pages 249–250)
MARK ROTHERY
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12198

Sarah Apetrei and Hannah Smith (eds), Religion and Women in Britain, c.1660–1760 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014), pp. vii + 217. ISBN 978-1-409-42919-7(hb). (pages 251–252)
NAOMI PULLIN
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12199

Rebecca Probert (ed.), Cohabitation and Non-marital Births in England and Wales, 1600–2012 (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), pp. 253. ISBN 978-1-137-39625-9 (hb). (pages 253–255)
SARA READ
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12200

Sara Read, Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. xii + 248. ISBN 978-1-137-35502-7 (hb). (pages 256–257)
VALERIE WORTH-STYLIANOU
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12201

Biographies

BIOGRAPHIES (pages 258–259)
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Index to Volume 27
Volume 27 (2015) Index (pages 260–262)
Article first published online: 17 MAR 2016 / DOI: 10.1111/1468-0424.12203