Reconsidering Women's History

Lucy Bland teaches history at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. Her publications include Banishing the Beast: Feminism, Sex and Morality (1995, 2002) and Modern Women on Trial: Sexual Transgression in the Age of the Flapper (2013). Katharina Rowold is Senior Lecturer in European History at Roehampton University, UK. Her publications include The Educated Woman: Minds, Bodies and Women’s Higher Education in Britain, Germany, and Spain, 1865-1914 (Routledge, 2010).

• 1. Introduction 2. The Imagined Communities of Women’s History: current debates and emerging themes, a rhizomatic approach 3. Geographies of Belonging: white women and black history 4. Twenty Years On: feminism’s ‘three body problem’ 5. Gendering the Historiography of the Suffragette Movement in Edwardian Britain: some reflections 6. Peg’s War: a story told through letters 7. ‘Fit to Fight, Fit to Mix’: sexual patriotism in Second World War Britain 8. Between the Transnational and the Local: mapping the trajectories and contexts of the Wages for Housework campaign in 1970s Italian feminism 9. An Irregular Period? Participation in the Bradford Women’s Liberation Movement 10. Reassess Your Weapons: the making of feminist memory in young women’s zines 11. Twenty Years On: remembering the origins of the Women’s History Network (UK) 12. With Cauliflowers, Kisses and Banners: ‘community’, radical politics, embodied activity and art in the early Women’s History Network (UK)