The Feminist History Reader

ISBN-13: 9780415318099 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 432 str.

Sue Morgan; Sue Morgan

Opis

Over the past thirty years feminist historians have challenged and changed the way history is written. This self-critical dialogue between women has resulted in the development of a richly reflexive feminist historiography. "The Feminist History Reader" gathers together key articles that have shaped this historiography and introduces students to the major shifts and turning points in this dialogue.
The Reader is divided into four sections. Part one looks at early feminist historians' writings following the move from reclaiming women's past through to the development of gender history. Part two focuses on the interaction of feminist history with 'the linguistic turn' and addresses the challenges made by poststructuralism and the responses it provoked. Part three examines the work of lesbian historians and queer theorists in their challenge the heterosexism of feminist history writing. The final part of the Reader looks at the work of black feminists and postcolonial critics/Third World scholars and howthey have laid bare the ethnocentric and imperialist tendencies of feminist theory. Each reading has a critical introduction and guide to further reading.
Including a comprehensive, general introduction, this is a wide ranging guide to developments in feminist history and is essential reading for all students of history.

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Introduction  Part 1: Bringing the Female Subject into View  1. The Trouble With Patriarchy  2. Feminism and History  3. Golden Age to Separate Spheres? A Review of the Categories and Chronology of English Women's History  4. Politics and Culture in Women's History: A Symposium  5. Women’s History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate  6. History and the Challenge of Gender History  Part 2: Deconstructing the Female Subject: Feminist History and 'The Linguistic Turn'  7. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis  8. Does Sex Have a History?  9. Gender History/Women's History: Is Feminist Scholarship Losing its Critical Edge?  10. Gender as a Postmodern Category of Paralysis  11. Postmodern Blackness  12. Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of 'Postmodernism'  Part 3: Searching for the Subject: Lesbian History  13. Who Hid Lesbian History?  14. Does it Matter if They Did it?  15. Lesbian History: All Theory and No Facts or All Facts and No Theory?  16. Queer: Theorizing Politics and History  17. 'Lesbian-Like' and the Social History of Lesbianisms  18. Toward a Global History of Same-Sex Sexuality  Part 4: Centres of Difference: Decolonising Subjects: Rethinking Boundaries  19. Gender and Race: The Ampersand Problem in Feminist Thought  20. Challenging Imperial Feminism  21. An Open Letter to Mary Daly  22. 'What Has Happened Here?': The Politics of Difference in Women's History and Feminist Politics  23. Dead Women Tell No Tales: Issues of Female Subjectivity, Subaltern Agency and Tradition in Colonial and Postcolonial Writings on Widow Immolation in India  24. Gender and Nation  25. 'Introduction' to Civilizing Subjects  26. Rethinking Boundaries: Feminism and (Inter)Nationalism in Early-Twentieth-Century India  27. Actions Louder than Words: The Historical Task of Defining Feminist Consciousness in Colonial West Africa  28. 'Under Western Eyes' Revisited: Feminist Solidarity Through Anticapitalist Struggles  29. Feminism's History

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Sue Morgan is Principal Lecturer in History and Head of the School of Cultural Studies at the University of Chichester. She is the author of A Passion for Purity: Ellice Hopkins and the politics of gender in the late-Victorian church (1999), co-editor of Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture (2000) and editor of Women, Religion and Feminism in Britain, 1750--1900 (2002).