The Feminist History Reader

"The Feminist History Reader" gathers together key articles that have shaped the dynamic historiography of the past thirty years, and introduces students to the major shifts and turning points in this dialogue. The "Reader" is divided into four sections: early feminist historians' writings following the move from reclaiming women's past through to the development of gender history; the interaction of feminist history with 'the linguistic turn' and the challenges made by poststructuralism and the responses it provoked; the work of lesbian historians and queer theorists in their challenge of the heterosexism of feminist history writing; 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, and with a comprehensive general introduction as well, this wide-ranging guide to developments in feminist history is essential reading for all students of history.

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<p> Advanced readers are likely to find much of interest in the Feminist History Reader Morgan 's was a difficult editorial task and the result is a stylish set of readings which will enable important issues about feminist historical theorizing to be addressed and debated in the classroom, particularly given that Morgan 's editorial viewpoint on the field is discussed in such an interesting and in-depth way. Feminist Review

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Acknowledgements. Introduction. Part 1 Bringing the female subject into view. 1. The trouble with patriarchy "Sheila Rowbotham, Sally Alexander and Barbara Tay"lor 2. Feminism and history "Judith M. Bennett" 3. Golden age to separate spheres? A review of the categories and chronology of english women's history "Amanda Vickery" 4. Politics and culture in women's history. A symposium "Ellen Dubois, Mari Jo Buhle, Temma Kaplan, Gerda Lerner and Carroll Smith-Rosenberg" 5. Women's 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/women's 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 Jo"an 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 women's 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. Feminism's history "Joan W. Scott" Guide to further reading.

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