Current Issues in Women's History

ISBN-13: 9780415752411 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014

International Conference on Women's History; Arina Angerman; Geerte Binnema

Opis

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 research in women's studies.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Politics, Identification and the Writing of Women’s History  2. Maria Winkelmann: the Clash between Guild Traditions and Professional Science  3. Female Education and Spiritual Life: the Case of Ministers’ Daughters  4. Brick Stamps and Women’s Economic Opportunities in Imperial Rome  5. Witchcraft in the Northern Netherlands  6. Emancipated Integration or Integrated Emancipation: the Case of Post-revolutionary Yugoslavia  7. Female Culture, Pacifism and Feminism: Women Strike for Peace  8. Gossipy Letters in the Context of International Feminism  9. The Origins of Feminism in Egypt  10. Female Aspiration and Male Ideology: School-teaching in Nineteenth-century New England  11. ‘Embittered, Sexless or Homosexual’: Attacks on Spinster Teachers 1918-39  12. Women’s Psychological Disorders in Seventeenth-century Britain  13. Pygmalion, or the Image of Women in Medieval Literature  14. Whores and Gossips: Sexual Reputation in London 1770-1825  15. On the Origins of Dutch Women’s Historiography: Three Portraits (1840-1970)  16. A Paradigm of Androcentric Historiography: Michelet’s Les femmes de la Revolution  17. Ethnocentrism in the Study of Algerian Women

O autorze

The editors were all organisers of the International Conference on Women's History, held in Amsterdam in March 1986.