Issue 6

Spring 2016

Contents

Table of Contents

Chicago Journal of History

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief

Hansong Li

Letter from a Historian

Matthew Briones, University of Chicago

Maturation of a Historian: Conversation with Walter Kaegi

Walter Kaegi, Michael Goodyear, Hansong Li, Kevin Otradovec, University of Chicago

Authorial Voice in Ilkhanid Persian Historiography: Contradiction and Intent in the “Tarikh-e Jahangosha-ye Jovayni”

Darren Wan, University of Chicago

Rivkah bat Meir: Subtle Redefinition of Gender Roles within the Confines of Traditional Jewish Society

Michaela Nakayama Shapiro, Northwestern University

Rationalizing Sex: the Hermaphrodite in Eighteenth Century Medical Writing

Sarah Welz Geselowitzn, Swarthmore College

Workers’ Demonstrations and Liberals’ Condemnations: the Italian Liberal Press’s Coverage of General Strikes, Factory Occupations, and Workers’ Self-Defense Groups during the Rise of Fascism, 1919-1922

Ararat Gocmen, Princeton University

Use Your Buying Power for Justice: the League of Women Shoppers and Innocuous Feminist Radicalism 1935-1948

Kathy Higgins, Smith College

Start Here Now: Interview with Constantin Fasolt

Constantin Fasolt, Hansong Li, Paige Pendarvis, University of Chicago