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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820897603321

Autore

Alberti Johanna <1940-, >

Titolo

Gender and the historian / / Johanna Alberti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-317-87709-8

1-315-83851-6

1-317-87710-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (165 p.)

Collana

Making History

Disciplina

305.4/09

305.409

Soggetti

Women - History - Historiography

History - Methodology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2002 by Pearson Education.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgement; 1. Woman as a force in history; 2. A moment in history 1969-75; 3. Liberating women's history 1976-83; 4. Gender, a useful category of historical analysis 1983-7; 5. A multiple vision 1988-9; 6. Writing inside the kaleidoscope 1990-3; 7. The shape of an historical community 1993-9; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Why are most famous historians men? How have women changed the writing of history over the last decades? What lives and stories have been hidden from history?Until recently history was predominantly the domain of men. That men were the authors of our past meant that in many cases only half of the story was told. In the second half of the twentieth century, however, the picture changed. Women, and indeed some men as well, started to address gender history. Women had been investigated historically before, but never with such intensity, nor such breadth. The impetus for this writing was