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This book considers the promise of women's and gender history for revolutionizing our understanding of the past while also acknowledging the current national political, financial, and other contextual realities that can (and do) constrain or promote the possibilities for researching and writing women's history. The editors assert that the promise of women's and gender history is a cutting edge field of research, "a revolutionary development in the politics of historical scholarship," essential for understanding the human past. Further, they argue for the inseparability of women's history and gendered analytical approaches.
The contributors to the volume address questions including: what have been the achievements of women's and gender history over the past two decades? To what extent has it succeeded in making women's history an integral part of historical study rather than an optional specialist area? What impact has the study of manhood, masculinities, and men's gendered power had on our understanding of women's lives? What is the relationship between gender studies and new critical histories of colonialism and empire, contact zones, cross-cultural encounters, and racialization? How is new work on cultural geography and spatial categories impacting on our historical understandings of bodily difference?
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Women's History Review.
Contents
Introduction 1. Women's History at the Cutting Edge: a joint paper in two voices 2. The Dangers of Complacency: women's history/gender history in Canada in the twenty-first century 3. The History of Women and Gender: French perspectives on the last twenty years 4. From Invisibility to Marginality: women's history in Romania 5. Women's History at the Cutting Edge in Japan 6. Women's and Gender Studies of the Russian Past: two contemporary trends 7. 'A Glass Half Full'? Women's history in the UK 8. Women's History in Many Places: reflections on plurality, diversity and polyversality
