Gender and History Retrospect and Prospect

This book presents a wide-ranging and important collection of new work on gender history. It includes a variety of international contributions which provide the reader with a global perspective on how gender history has developed and where it is going. The subjects covered include gendered space, colonial identites, biology and science, politics, citizenship and the public shere, work, family, and oral history. Ranging from Europe to Asia, Australia to North and South America, together the essays provide an essential guide to the recent and future direction of gender history.

Leonore Davidoff, the founding editor of Gender & History, is Research Professor in Social History, University of Essex. She is the author of numerous works in gender history including, with Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes (1987), and The Family Story (1999) with Megan Doolittle, Janet Fink and Katherine Holden.

Keith McClelland teaches history at Middlesex University, London, is co-editor of Gender & History, and is the author with Catherine Hall and Jane Rendall of Defining the Victorian Nation (2000).

Eleni Varikas teaches in the Department de Sciences Politiques, Universit7eacute; de Paris VIII and has written widely on the history of political thought and social theory, on gender history and on Greek women's history.

Preface

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Leonore Davidoff

Keith McClelland

Eleni Varikas

Woman in Nineteenth-Century America

1

(14)

Christine Stansell

Silences Broken, Silences Kept: Gender and Sexuality in African-American History

15

(12)

Michele Mitchell

Giving Masculinity a History: Some Contributions from the Historiography of Colonial India

27

(16)

Mrinalini Sinha

The Gender of Militancy: Notes on the Possibilities of a Different History of Political Action

43

(14)

Marco Aurelio Garcia

Women and the Public Sphere

57

(14)

Jane Rendall

The Difficulties of Gender in France: Reflections on a Concept

71

(10)

Michele Riot-Sarcey

Emily Salines

The Body as Method? Reflections on the Place of the Body in Gender History

81

(15)

Kathleen Canning

Gender and Science

96

(14)

Ilana Lowy

Work, Gender & History in the 1990s and Beyond

110

(14)

Efi Avdela

Close Relations? Bringing Together Gender and Family in English History

124

(13)

Megan Doolittle

Gendered Space: A New Look at Turkish Modernisation

137

(14)

Ferhunde Ozbay

Paradoxes of Gender: Writing History in Post-Communist Russia 1987-1998

151

(14)

Irina Korovushkina

Conceptualising Gender in a Swedish Context

165

(14)

Asa Lundqvist

Gender and the Categories of Experienced History

179

(15)

Selma Leydesdorff

Writing Gender into History and History in Gender: Creating A Nation and Australian Historiography

194

(13)

Joy Damousi

Notes on Contributors

207

(2)

Index

209

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Gender and History Retrospect and Prospect

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