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Book SynopsisChallenges the assumption that an archive is a neutral, immutable, and a historical repository of information. This volume demonstrates innovative research on diverse women from the sixteenth century to the present in Spain, Mexico, Tunisia, India, Iran, Poland, Mozambique, and the United States.
Trade ReviewReceived the Barbara "Penny" Kanner Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians, 2011.
"A pleasure to read. . . . A terrific primer on how to research the seemingly invisible and silent."--
Pacific Historical Review.""A compelling exploration of topics in women's and gender history across several continents and through several centuries."--
The American Archivist"
Contesting Archives makes vivid and concrete the way historians must proceed when faced with partial or contradictory sources. Historians and anyone interested in how historians work will appreciate the authors' strategies for, and cautions about, unearthing information about women from documents inside and outside the archive."--Margaret Strobel, coeditor of
Expanding the Borders of Women's HistoryTable of ContentsContributors are: Janet Afary, Maryam Ameli-Rezai, Antoinette Burton, Nupur Chaudhuri, Julia Clancy-Smith, Mansoureh Ettehadieh, Malgorzata Fidelis, Joanne L. Goodwin, Kali Nicole Gross, Daniel S. Haworth, Sherry J. Katz, Elham Malekzadeh, Mary Elizabeth Perry, Kathleen Sheldon, Lisa Sousa, and Ula Y. Taylor
