| Description |
xii, 417 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements. Introduction -- Part 1. Bringing the female subject into view -- 1. The trouble with patriarchy / Sheila Rowbotham, Sally Alexander and Barbara Taylor -- 2. Feminism and history / Judith M. Bennett -- 3. Golden age to separate spheres? a review of the categories and chronology of English womens' history / Amanda Vickery -- 4. Politics and culture in womens' history : a symposium / Ellen Dubois, Mari Jo Buhle, Temma Kaplan, Gerda Lerner, and Carroll Smith-Rosenberg -- 5. Womens' history and gender history : aspects of an international debate / Gisela Bock -- 6. History and the challenge of gender history / Penelope J. Corfield, June Purvis, and Amanda Weatherill -- Part 2. Deconstructing the female subject : feminist history and the linguistic turn.-- 7. Gender: a useful category of historical analysis / Joan W. Scott -- 8. Does sex have a history? / Denise Riley -- 9. Gender history/womens history : is feminist scholarship losing its critical edge? / Sonya Rose, Kathleen Canning, Anna Clark and Mariana Valverde -- 10. Gender as a postmodern category of paralysis / Joan Hoff, Susan Kingsley Kent and Caroline Ramazanoglu -- 11. Postmodern blackness bell hooks -- 12. Contingent foundations: feminism and the question of "postmodernism" / Judith Butler -- Part three.-- Searching for the subject : lesbian history -- 13. Who hid lesbian history? / Lillian Faderman -- 14. Does it matter if they did it? / Sheila Jeffreys -- 15. Lesbian history : all theory and no facts or all facts and no theory? / Martha Vicinus -- 16. Queer : theorizing politics and history / Donna Penn -- 17. "Lesbian-like" and the social history of lesbianisms / Judith M. Bennett -- 18. Toward a global history of same-sex sexuality / Leila J. Rupp -- Part 4 -- Centres of difference : decolonising subjects : rethinking boundaries -- 19. Gender & race : the ampersand problem in feminist thought / Elizabeth V. Spelman -- 20. Challenging imperial feminism / Valerie Amos and Pratibha Parmar -- 21. An open letter to Mary Daly / Audre Lorde -- 22."What has happened here" : the politics of difference in womens' history and feminist politics / Elsa Barkley Brown -- 23.Dead women tell no tales : issues of female subjectivity, subaltern agency and tradition in colonial and postcolonial writings on widow immolation in India / Ania Loomba -- 24. Gender and nation / Mrinalini Sinha-- 25. "Introduction" to civilising subjects / Catherine Hall -- 26. Rethinking boundaries : feminism and (inter)nationalism in early-twentieth-century India / Sanjam Ahluwalia and Antoinette Burton -- 27. Actions louder than words : the historical task of defining feminist consciousness in colonial West Africa / Cheryl Johnson-Odim -- 28. "Under western eyes" revisited : feminist solidarity through anticapitalist struggles / Chandra Talpade Mohanty Afterword -- 29. Feminisms history / Joan W. Scott -- Guide to further reading |
| Subject |
Women -- History.
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Women -- Historiography.
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Feminism -- Historiography.
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| Author |
Morgan, Sue, 1957-
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| LC no. |
2005031180 |
| ISBN |
0415318106 paperback |
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0415318092 |
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