Created on February 4th 2008
Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England (2007)
–now available in paperback!
–winner of an Honourable Mention for the 2008 Albert B. Corey Prize/Prix Corey, which is awarded every other year jointly with the American Historical Association to the best book in Canadian-American history.
Reviews:
–in The Boston Globe, December 31, 2007
–on H-NewEngland, July 2007
–in the Journal of American History, September 2007
–in the American Historical Review, December 2007
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No more photos from Abu Ghraib because of rape scenes? : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present on 28 May 2009 at 8:09 am #
[...] was invited to a university to give a talk about Abraham in Arms when it was first published, and a woman in the audience (herself a women’s historian) [...]
Honourable Mention! What an honour! : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present on 06 Jul 2009 at 7:42 am #
[...] Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England won an Honourable Mention for the 2008 Albert B. Corey Prize/Prix Corey from the Canadian Historical Association. The prize is awarded every other year jointly with the American Historical Association to the best book in Canadian-American history. Should the winner of the 2008 Corey Prize (Sharon A. Roger Hepburn, for Crossing the Border: A Free Black Community in Canada, University of Illinois Press, 2007) be unable to fulfill her duties, I’ll be happy to swing into action. Here’s the flattering and generous citation from the CHA: Abraham in Arms argues that religious ideas about gender and family provided the vital context in which the people of colonial New England, New France, and “Indian Country” understood the cross-cultural warfare between them through the 17th and 18th centuries. It is a richly imaginative and theoretically innovative fusion of religion, gender, family, diplomacy, and war that offers yet another persuasive argument that no study of war can avoid addressing the social role of gender and family life in animating the normative use of violence. It is a book destined to be influential to historians of other times and places. [...]
Guns and gender: “many say” that men don’t know what the hell they’re talking about : Historiann : History and sexual politics, 1492 to the present on 05 Dec 2009 at 11:13 am #
[...] not only are we the inheritors of a legacy of gun ownership that is deeply gendered (see my book if you want the details. It’s true! Girls write about the historical patterns and meaning [...]