Writing Women's History

By Ruth Roach Pierson, Karen Offen, Jane Rendall

Subjects: Women, Congresses, Femmes, Historiographie, Vrouwengeschiedenis (wetenschap), Historiography, Women, history, women's history, Congrès

Description: WRITING WOMEN'S HISTORY offers an unrivalled introduction to different approaches to women's history across the world. Seven theoretical 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 the influence of poststructuralism on women's history. Individual essays survey the "state of the art" of women's history in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Denmark, the former German Democratic Republic, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Yugoslavia, together with a bibliography of women's history in Eastern Europe. These contributions trace the distinctive character of different national approaches, as well as the importance of international influences, in the writing of the history of women.