Authors: Sue Morgan, Jenkins
ISBN-13: 9780415318105, ISBN-10: 0415318106
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: February 2006
Edition: 1st Edition
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 how they 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.
Introduction : writing feminist history : theoretical debates and critical practices | ||
1 | The trouble with 'patriarchy' | 51 |
2 | Feminism and history | 59 |
3 | Golden age to separate spheres? : a review of the categories and chronology of English women's history | 74 |
4 | Politics and culture in women's history : a symposium | 87 |
5 | Women's history and gender history : aspects of an international debate | 104 |
6 | History and the challenge of gender history | 116 |
7 | Gender : a useful category of historical analysis | 133 |
8 | Does a sex have a history? | 149 |
9 | Gender history/women's history : is feminist scholarship losing its critical edge? | 160 |
10 | Gender as a postmodern category of paralysis | 175 |
11 | Postmodern blackness | 191 |
12 | Contingent foundations : feminism and the question of 'postmodernism' | 197 |
13 | Who hid lesbian history? | 205 |
14 | Does it matter if they did it? | 212 |
15 | Lesbian history : all theory and no facts or all facts and no theory? | 219 |
16 | Queer : theorizing politics and history | 232 |
17 | 'Lesbian-like' and the social history of lesbianisms | 244 |
18 | Toward a global history of same-sex sexuality | 260 |
19 | Gender & race : the Ampersand problem in feminist thought | 273 |
20 | Challenging imperial feminism | 284 |
21 | An open letter to Mary Daly | 295 |
22 | 'What has happened here' : the politics of difference in women's history and feminist politics | 300 |
23 | Dead women tell no tales : issues of female subjectivity, subaltern agency and tradition in colonial and post-colonial writings on widow immolation in India | 309 |
24 | Gender and nation | 323 |
25 | 'Introduction' to civilising subjects | 339 |
26 | Rethinking boundaries : feminism and (inter)nationalism in early-twentieth-century India | 351 |
27 | Actions louder than words : the historical task of defining feminist consciousness in colonial West Africa | 360 |
28 | 'Under western eyes' revisited : feminist solidarity through anticapitalist struggles | 373 |
29 | Feminism's history | 387 |