Theory and Method in Women's History

ISBN-13: 9783598414770 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 211 str.

Nancy F. Cott

Opis

This text examines the evolving discussion of theory and method in women's history. The articles span from the first articulation of a framework to be designated women's history, to more recent discussion of the concept of gender in history.

Spis treści

i-iv -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- Reflections on Twentieth-Century American Women's History -- What the Women's Movement Has Done to American History -- Placing Women's History in History -- White Women/Black Women: The Dualism of Female Identity and Experience in the United States -- Women in History: The Modern Period -- On Seeing and Not Seeing: A Case of Historical Invisibility -- Beyond the Search for Sisterhood: American Women's History in the 1980s -- Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis -- History and Difference -- Copyright Information -- Index