Making women's histories : beyond national perspectives / edited by Pamela S. Nadell and Kate Haulman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nadell, Pamela Susan.

Haulman, Kate.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Historiography.

Women.

Sex role--Historiography.

Sex role.

World history--Historiography.

World history.

Historiography--Social aspects.

Historiography.

Historiography--Political aspects.

Women historians.

Physical Description:

x, 278 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2013.

Summary:

Making Women's Histories showcases the transformations that the intellectual and political production of women's history has engendered across time and space. It considers the difference women's and gender history has made to and within national fields of study, and to what extent the wider historiography has integrated this new knowledge. What are the accomplishments of women's and gender history? What are its shortcomings? What is its future?

The contributors discuss their discovery of women's histories, the multiple turns the field has taken, and how place has affected the course of this scholarship. Noted scholars of women's and gender history, they stand atop such historiographically-defined vantage points as Tsarist Russia, the British Empire in Egypt and India, Qing-dynasty China, and the U.S. roiling through the 1960s. From these and other peaks they gaze out at the world around them, surveying trajectories in the creation of women's histories in recent and distant pasts and envisioning their futures. Book jacket.

Contents:

Writing Women's History across Time and Space : Introduction / Pamela S. Nadell and Kate Haulman

[part 1]. Imagining New Histories : Late-Twentieth-Century Trajectories

Women's Past and the Currents of U.S. History / Kathy Peiss

New Directions in Russian and Soviet Women's History / Barbara Alpern Engel

Africa : Using Women and Gender to Put the Political in Economy, 1992-2010 / Claire Robertson

Sexual Crises, Women's History, and the History of Sexuality in Europe / Anna Clark

[part 2]. Engendering National and Nationalist Projects

Gender and the Politics of Exceptionalism in the Writing of British Women's History / Arianne Chernock

Amateur Historians, the "Woman Question," and the Production of Modern History in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Egypt / Lisa Pollard

Women's and Gender History in Modern India : Researching the Past, Reflecting on the Present / Mytheli Sreenivas

[part 3]. Exploring Transnational Approaches

World History Meets History of Masculinity in Latin American Studies / Ulrike Strasser and Heidi Tinsman

Connecting histories of Gender, Health, and U.S.-China Relations / Cristina Zaccarini

A Happier Marriage? Feminist History Takes the Transnational Turn / Jocelyn Olcott.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814758908

0814758908

9780814758915

0814758916

OCLC:

780483670