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- Provides a broad survey of the development of women's historical writing from the Renaissance up to the end of the twentieth century
Traces recurrent themes and the development of feminist ideas as they emerge through women's historical writing
Explores a subject much studied by undergraduates, and which attracts a great deal of general interest
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Men’s History
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Front Matter
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Women’s History
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This study traces the history of women's historical writing, reclaiming the lives of individual women historians, recovering women's historical writings from the past and focusing on how gender has shaped the genre of history. Mary Spongberg brings together for the first time an extensive survey of the progress of women's historical writing from the Renaissance to the present, demonstrating the continuities between women's historical writings in the past and the development of a distinctly woman-centred historiography.
Writing Women's History since the Renaissance also examines the relationship between women's history and the development of feminist consciousness, suggesting that the study of history has alerted women to their unequal status and enabled them to use history to achieve women's rights. Whether feminist or anti-feminist, women who have had their historical writings published have served as role models for women seeking a voice in the public sphere and have been instrumental in encouraging the growth of a feminist discourse.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance
Authors: Mary Spongberg
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-20307-5
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2002
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 308
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Historiography and Method