Gender and History Retrospect and Prospect

by Davidoff, Leonore; McClelland, Keith; Varikas, Eleni

• ISBN13: 9780631219989
• ISBN10: 0631219986
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-22
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This 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. The subjects covered include gendered space, colonial identites, biology and science, politics, citizenship and the public shere, work, family, and oral history. Ranging from Europe to Asia, Australia to North and South America, together the essays provide an essential guide to the recent and future direction of gender history.

Author Biography

Leonore Davidoff, the founding editor of Gender & History, is Research Professor in Social History, University of Essex. She is the author of numerous works in gender history including, with Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes (1987), and The Family Story (1999) with Megan Doolittle, Janet Fink and Katherine Holden.

Keith McClelland teaches history at Middlesex University, London, is co-editor of Gender & History, and is the author with Catherine Hall and Jane Rendall of Defining the Victorian Nation (2000).

Eleni Varikas teaches in the Department de Sciences Politiques, Universit7eacute; de Paris VIII and has written widely on the history of political thought and social theory, on gender history and on Greek women's history.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Leonore Davidoff
Keith McClelland
Eleni Varikas
Woman in Nineteenth-Century America	1	(14)
Christine Stansell
Silences Broken, Silences Kept: Gender and Sexuality in African-American History	15	(12)
Michele Mitchell
Giving Masculinity a History: Some Contributions from the Historiography of Colonial India	27	(16)
Mrinalini Sinha
The Gender of Militancy: Notes on the Possibilities of a Different History of Political Action	43	(14)
Marco Aurelio Garcia
Women and the Public Sphere	57	(14)
Jane Rendall
The Difficulties of Gender in France: Reflections on a Concept	71	(10)
Michele Riot-Sarcey
Emily Salines
The Body as Method? Reflections on the Place of the Body in Gender History	81	(15)
Kathleen Canning
Gender and Science	96	(14)
Ilana Lowy
Work, Gender & History in the 1990s and Beyond	110	(14)
Efi Avdela
Close Relations? Bringing Together Gender and Family in English History	124	(13)
Megan Doolittle
Gendered Space: A New Look at Turkish Modernisation	137	(14)
Ferhunde Ozbay
Paradoxes of Gender: Writing History in Post-Communist Russia 1987-1998	151	(14)
Irina Korovushkina
Conceptualising Gender in a Swedish Context	165	(14)
Asa Lundqvist
Gender and the Categories of Experienced History	179	(15)
Selma Leydesdorff
Writing Gender into History and History in Gender: Creating A Nation and Australian Historiography	194	(13)
Joy Damousi
Notes on Contributors	207	(2)
Index	209