Gender, Materiality, and Politics: Essays on the Making of Power

Can a silk glove be an expression of power? In this carefully curated volume, internationally renowned historians have come together to explore the interconnected perspectives of gender, materiality, and politics. As the authors elaborate on these topics, the volume offers contributions covering a period from the sixteenth century to the present day, investigating political culture and diplomacy, women’s work and assets, sexuality and queer perspectives, and the role of materiality and objects.

The volume is dedicated to the historian Svante Norrhem, who has published extensively on these topics and contributed invaluable empirical findings and methodological advances throughout his career. In his work, as in this volume, the detail of power is teased out through groundbreaking ideas and innovative research.

Daniel Nyström is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Education, Umeå University. At the moment, he is working on two projects: the first investigates contemporary debates in the daily press, and the second scrutinizes similarities and differences in the use of central concepts in the school’s social studies subjects.

Martin Almbjär is a postdoctoral researcher in History at Uppsala and Copenhagen university. His academic interests range from diplomatic history, petitions, and early modern representative assemblies to the history of fiat currency and the credit market.