The feminist history reader

The feminist history reader / edited by Sue Morgan.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Morgan, Sue, 1957-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Subjects:
Women > History.
Women > Historiography.
Feminism > Historiography.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements. Introduction : writing feminist history : theoretical debates and critical practices / Sue Morgan
  • Part 1. Bringing the female subject into view
  • 1. The trouble with 'patriarchy' / Sheila Rowbotham, Sally Alexander and Barbara Taylor
  • 2. Feminism and history / Judith M. Bennett
  • 3. Golden age to separate spheres? : a review of the categories and chronology of English women's history / Amanda Vickery
  • 4. Politics and culture in women's history : a symposium / Ellen Dubois, Mari Jo Buhle, Temma Kaplan, Gerda Lerner, and Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
  • 5. Women's history and gender history : aspects of an international debate / Gisela Bock
  • 6. History and the challenge of gender history / Penelope J. Corfield, June Purvis, and Amanda Weatherill
  • Part 2. Deconstructing the female subject : feminist history and the linguistic turn
  • 7. Gender : a useful category of historical analysis / Joan Wallach Scott
  • 8. Does sex have a history? / Denise Riley
  • 9. Gender history/women's history : is feminist scholarship losing its critical edge? / Sonya Rose, Kathleen Canning, Anna Clark and Mariana Valverde
  • 10. Gender as a postmodern category of paralysis / Joan Hoff, Susan Kingsley Kent and Caroline Ramazanoglu
  • 11. Postmodern blackness / bell hooks
  • 12. Contingent foundations : feminism and the question of 'postmodernism' / Judith Butler
  • Part 3
  • Searching for the subject : lesbian history
  • 13. Who hid lesbian history? / Lillian Faderman
  • 14. Does it matter if they did it? / Sheila Jeffreys
  • 15. Lesbian history : all theory and no facts or all facts and no theory? / Martha Vicinus
  • 16. Queer : theorizing politics and history / Donna Penn
  • 17. 'Lesbian-like' and the social history of lesbianisms / Judith M. Bennett
  • 18. Toward a global history of same-sex sexuality / Leila J. Rupp
  • Part 4
  • Centres of difference : decolonising subjects : rethinking boundaries
  • 19. Gender & race : the ampersand problem in feminist thought / Elizabeth V. Spelman
  • 20. Challenging imperial feminism / Valerie Amos and Pratibha Parmar
  • 21. An open letter to Mary Daly / Audre Lorde
  • 22. 'What has happened here' : the politics of difference in women's history and feminist politics / Elsa Barkley Brown
  • 23. Dead women tell no tales : issues of female subjectivity, subaltern agency and tradition in colonial and postcolonial writings on widow immolation in India / Ania Loomba
  • 24. Gender and nation / Mrinalini Sinha-- 25. 'Introduction' to civilising subjects / Catherine Hall
  • 26. Rethinking boundaries : feminism and (inter)nationalism in early-twentieth-century India / Sanjam Ahluwalia and Antoinette Burton
  • 27. Actions louder than words : the historical task of defining feminist consciousness in colonial West Africa / Cheryl Johnson-Odim
  • 28. 'Under western eyes' revisited : feminist solidarity through anticapitalist struggles / Chandra Talpade Mohanty - Afterword
  • 29. Feminism's history / Joan W. Scott
  • Guide to further reading.

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