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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452513003321

Titolo

Current issues in women's history / / edited by Arina Angerman. [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-10424-2

1-283-89396-7

1-136-24881-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (522 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions: women's history ; ; v. 1

Altri autori (Persone)

AngermanArina <1954->

Disciplina

305.4/0973

Soggetti

Women - History

Women - Historiography

Feminism - History

Sexism - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1989.

Papers presented at the International Conference on Women's History held in Amsterdam from 24-27 March 1986.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Politics, identification and the writing of women's history; Maria Winkelmann: the clash between guild traditions and professional science; Female education and spiritual life: the case of ministers' daughters; Brick stamps and women's economic opportunities in Imperial Rome; Witchcraft in the Northern Netherlands; Emancipated integration or integrated emancipation: the case of post-revolutionary Yugoslavia; Female culture, pacifism and feminism: Women Strike for Peace; Gossipy letters in the context of international feminism

The origins of feminism in EgyptFemale aspiration and male ideology: school-teaching in nineteenth-century New England; 'Embittered, sexless or homosexual': attacks on spinster teachers 1918-39; Women's psychological disorders in seventeenth-century Britain; Pygmalion, or the image of women in medieval literature; Whores and gossips: sexual reputation in London 1770-1825; On the origins of Dutch women's historiography: three portraits (1840-1970); A



paradigm of androcentric historiography: Michelet's Lesfemmes de la ReĢvolution; Ethnocentrism in the study of Algerian women

Notes on contributors with selected bibliographiesIndex

Sommario/riassunto

This lively collection of essays, originally published in 1989, illustrated recent developments in the area, with chapters by contributors from many different countries and disciplines.Asking new questions and using sources in a challenging way, the contributors reflect 1980s debates about politics and academic research in women's studies. They cover a wide range of topics, dealing for example with opportunities and obstacles for women within male-defined power-structures and institutions such as science, religious communities, and ancient Roman industry. They discuss feminists and f