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Record Nr.

UNINA9910852984903321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, 2013

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

9780814759226

081475922X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

NadellPamela Susan

HaulmanKate

Disciplina

907.2/02

Soggetti

Women - Historiography

Sex role - Historiography

World history - Historiography

Historiography - Social aspects

Historiography - Political aspects

Women historians

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Examines how women's histories are explored and explained around the worldMaking 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 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.