Description
Book SynopsisThis book presents a wide-ranging and important collection of new work on gender history. It includes a variety of international contributions which provide the reader with a global perspective on how gender history has developed and where it is going.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Leonore Davidoff, Keith Mcclelland and Eleni Varikas.
1. Woman in Nineteenth-Century America: Christine Stansell (Princeton University).
2. Silences Broken, Silences Kept: Gender and Sexuality in African-American History: Michele Mitchell (University of Michigan).
3. Giving Masculinity a History: Some Contributions from the Historiography of a Colonial India: Mrinalini Sinha (Southern Illinois University At Carbondale).
4. The Gender of Militancy: Notes on the Possibilities of a Different History of Political Action: Marco Aurelio Garcia (Universidade Estadual de Campinas).
5. Women and the Public Sphere: Jane Rendall (University of York).
6. The Difficulties of Gender in France: Reflections on a Concept: Michele Riot Sarcey (University of Paris VIII).
7. The Body as Method? Reflections on a Concept: Kathleen Canning (University of Michigan).
8. Gender and Science: Ilana Lowy (Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Scientifique).
9. Work, Gender & History in the 1990's and Beyond: Efi Avdela (University of Athens).
10. Close Relations? Bringing Together Gender and Family in English History: Megan Doolittle (Middlesex University).
11. Gendered Space: A New Look at Turkish Modernisation: Ferhinde Ozbay (Booazici University).
12. Paradoxes of Gender: Writing History in Post-Communist Russia 1987-1998: Irina Korovushkina (University of Essex).
13. Conceptualising Gender in a Swedish Context: Asa Lundqvist (Lund University).
14. Gender and the Categories of Experienced History: Selma Leydesdorff (Belle van Zuylen Onderzoeks Instituut).
15. Writing Gender into History and History in Gender: Creating a Nation and Australian Historiography: Joy Damousi (University of Melbourne).
