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Writing Women’s History

International Perspectives

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Karen Offen

    1. Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University, USA

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  2. Ruth Roach Pierson

    1. The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada

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  3. Jane Rendall

    1. University of York, UK

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xli
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  2. Conceptual and Methodological Issues

    1. Challenging Dichotomies: Perspectives on Women’s History

      • Gisela Bock
      Pages 1-23

    2. Demographic History and Its Perception of Women from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century

      • Anne-Lise Head-König
      Pages 25-44

    3. ‘Uneven Developments’: Women’s History, Feminist History and Gender History in Great Britain

      • Jane Rendall
      Pages 45-57

    4. Finding Our Own Ways: Different Paths to Women’s History in the United States

      • Phyllis Stock-Morton
      Pages 59-77

    5. Experience, Difference, Dominance and Voice in the Writing of Canadian Women’s History

      • Phyllis Stock-Morton
      Pages 79-106

    6. Women’s Culture and Women’s Power: Issues in French Women’s History

      • Cécile Dauphin, Arlette Farge, Geneviève Fraise, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Rose-Marie Lagrave, Michelle Perrot et al.
      Pages 107-133

    7. Global Women’s History: Organising Principles and Cross-Cultural Understandings

      • Ida Blom
      Pages 135-149

  3. The State of The Art in Women’s History

    1. Writing the History of Australian Women

      • Patricia Grimshaw
      Pages 151-169

    2. The Development of Women’s History in Japan

      • Noriyo Hayakawa
      Pages 171-179

    3. Women’s History in India: An Historiographical Survey

      • Aparna Basu
      Pages 181-209

    4. Writing Women into History: The Nigerian Experience

      • Bolanle Awe
      Pages 211-220

    5. Women’s History in Norway: A Short Survey

      • Ingeborg Floystad
      Pages 221-230

    6. The State of Women’s History in Denmark

      • Nanna Damsholt
      Pages 231-238

    7. The State of Women’s History in Sweden: An Overview

      • Yvonne Hirdman
      Pages 239-258

    8. Women’s History Behind the Dykes: Reflections on the Situation in the Netherlands

      • Francisca de Haan
      Pages 259-277

    9. The State of Women’s History in Austria

      • Brigitte Mazohl-Wallnig
      Pages 279-290

    10. Historical Research on Women in the Federal Republic of Germany

      • Ute Frevert, Heide Wunder, Christina Vanja
      Pages 291-331

    11. Historical Research on Women in the German Democratic Republic

      • Petra Rantzsch, Erika Uitz
      Pages 333-353

    12. Women’s History in Switzerland

      • Regina Wecker
      Pages 355-367
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Five essays address such themes as the relationship between feminist history and women's history, the use of the concept of "experience", the development of the history of gender, demographic history and women's history and the importance of post-structuralism to women's history.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University, USA

    Karen Offen

  • The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada

    Ruth Roach Pierson

  • University of York, UK

    Jane Rendall

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