Gender and History
Retrospect and Prospect
Gender and History Special Issues
1. Auflage April 2000
232 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
ISBN:
978-0-631-21998-9
John Wiley & Sons
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.
Introduction: Leonore Davidoff, Keith Mcclelland and Eleni Varikas.
1. Woman in Nineteenth-Century America: Christine Stansell
(Princeton University).
2. Silences Broken, Silences Kept: Gender and Sexuality in
African-American History: Michele Mitchell (University of
Michigan).
3. Giving Masculinity a History: Some Contributions from the
Historiography of a Colonial India: Mrinalini Sinha (Southern
Illinois University At Carbondale).
4. The Gender of Militancy: Notes on the Possibilities of a
Different History of Political Action: Marco Aurelio Garcia
(Universidade Estadual de Campinas).
5. Women and the Public Sphere: Jane Rendall (University of
York).
6. The Difficulties of Gender in France: Reflections on a
Concept: Michele Riot Sarcey (University of Paris VIII).
7. The Body as Method? Reflections on a Concept: Kathleen
Canning (University of Michigan).
8. Gender and Science: Ilana Lowy (Institut National de la Sante
et de la Recherche Scientifique).
9. Work, Gender & History in the 1990's and Beyond: Efi
Avdela (University of Athens).
10. Close Relations? Bringing Together Gender and Family in
English History: Megan Doolittle (Middlesex University).
11. Gendered Space: A New Look at Turkish Modernisation:
Ferhinde Ozbay (Booazici University).
12. Paradoxes of Gender: Writing History in Post-Communist
Russia 1987-1998: Irina Korovushkina (University of Essex).
13. Conceptualising Gender in a Swedish Context: Asa Lundqvist
(Lund University).
14. Gender and the Categories of Experienced History: Selma
Leydesdorff (Belle van Zuylen Onderzoeks Instituut).
15. Writing Gender into History and History in Gender: Creating
a Nation and Australian Historiography: Joy Damousi (University of
Melbourne).
1. Woman in Nineteenth-Century America: Christine Stansell
(Princeton University).
2. Silences Broken, Silences Kept: Gender and Sexuality in
African-American History: Michele Mitchell (University of
Michigan).
3. Giving Masculinity a History: Some Contributions from the
Historiography of a Colonial India: Mrinalini Sinha (Southern
Illinois University At Carbondale).
4. The Gender of Militancy: Notes on the Possibilities of a
Different History of Political Action: Marco Aurelio Garcia
(Universidade Estadual de Campinas).
5. Women and the Public Sphere: Jane Rendall (University of
York).
6. The Difficulties of Gender in France: Reflections on a
Concept: Michele Riot Sarcey (University of Paris VIII).
7. The Body as Method? Reflections on a Concept: Kathleen
Canning (University of Michigan).
8. Gender and Science: Ilana Lowy (Institut National de la Sante
et de la Recherche Scientifique).
9. Work, Gender & History in the 1990's and Beyond: Efi
Avdela (University of Athens).
10. Close Relations? Bringing Together Gender and Family in
English History: Megan Doolittle (Middlesex University).
11. Gendered Space: A New Look at Turkish Modernisation:
Ferhinde Ozbay (Booazici University).
12. Paradoxes of Gender: Writing History in Post-Communist
Russia 1987-1998: Irina Korovushkina (University of Essex).
13. Conceptualising Gender in a Swedish Context: Asa Lundqvist
(Lund University).
14. Gender and the Categories of Experienced History: Selma
Leydesdorff (Belle van Zuylen Onderzoeks Instituut).
15. Writing Gender into History and History in Gender: Creating
a Nation and Australian Historiography: Joy Damousi (University of
Melbourne).
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.
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.
