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PublisherHachette Learning

ISBN-100340975164

ISBN-139780340975169

eBay Product ID (ePID)74702948

Product Key Features

Number of Pages256 Pages

Publication NameWriting Gender History

LanguageEnglish

SubjectWomen, Historiography, Study & Teaching, Women's Studies

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorLaura Lee Downs

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight11.4 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

Publication Year0002

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsThis fills an important gap in the range of books available on historiography. I envisage that the 'case-study' approach in chapters will be useful to students (i.e hopefully will encourage them to read the texts featured)., "Puts the entire range of women's and gender history into context, showing how it challenges the conventional pieties, opens up new veins of research, and transforms our understanding of every aspect of history. Her command of the literature is simply astounding and her work is sure to be seen as a landmark in the development of the field of history in the broadest sense."-Lynn Hunt, UCLA (first edition) "Ingenuity and perspicuity shine through Laura Lee Downs superb distillation and analysis of women's and gender history. To understand accomplishments and changes in the field, put this book at the top of your list."-Nancy Cott, Harvard University (first edition), "Puts the entire range of women's and gender history into context, showing how it challenges the conventional pieties, opens up new veins of research, and transforms our understanding of every aspect of history. Her command of the literature is simply astounding and her work is sure to be seen as a landmark in the development of the field of history in the broadest sense." -- Lynn Hunt, UCLA (first edition) "Ingenuity and perspicuity shine through Laura Lee Downs superb distillation and analysis of women's and gender history. To understand accomplishments and changes in the field, put this book at the top of your list." -- Nancy Cott, Harvard University (first edition), "The author's grasp and presentation of such diverse material is astounding ... [This is] a sophisticated examination of some of the applications of theory and one which offers an indispensable bibliography ... The author presents and explores a dazzling array of voices, which together can form no easy narrative - and this is much the point of the book." -- Cultural and Social History (of the first edition) "Downs puts the entire range of women's and gender history into context, showing how it challenges the conventional pieties, opens up new veins of research, and transforms our understanding of every aspect of history. Her command of the literature is simply astounding and her work is sure to be seen as a landmark in the development of the field of history in the broadest sense." -- Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of Modern European History, UCLA (about the first edition) "Ingenuity and perspicuity shine through Laura Lee Downs' superb distillation and analysis of women's and gender history. To understand accomplishments and changes in the field, put this book at the top of your list." -- Nancy F. Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History, Harvard University (about the first edition) "This fills an important gap in the range of books available on historiography. I envisage that the 'case-study' approach in chapters will be useful to students (i.e hopefully will encourage them to read the texts featured)." -- Anne Logan, University of Kent, UK (about the first edition) "No better guide to the field exists than this richly satisfying text." -- Gender and History (about the first edition), This fills an important gap in the range of books available on historiography. I envisage that the 'case-study' approach in chapters will be useful to students i.e hopefully will encourage them to read the texts featured.)

Dewey Decimal305.40722

Edition DescriptionRevised edition,New Edition

Table Of ContentIntroduction; Before the second wave: scholarship on women from the early twentieth century into the 1960s; Second-wave feminism and the rediscovery of women's history, 1968-1975; Feminist historians and the 'new' social history: the case of England, 1968-1995; Is female to male as nature is to culture? Feminist anthropology and the search for a key to all misogynist mythologies; Beyond separate spheres: from women's history to gender history; Gender history, cultural history and the history of masculinity; Gender, poststructuralism and the 'cultural/linguistic turn' in history; Gender and history in a postcolonial world; From separate spheres to the public sphere: gender and the sexual politics of citizenship; Gender and history in a post-poststructuralist world; Conclusion: women's and gender history as a work in progress

SynopsisHow has feminist scholarship changed history? Writing Gender History explores the evolution of historical writing about women and gender from the 1930s until the early twenty-first century. With chapters on the history of Europe, the USA, colonial India and Africa, the discussion moves from women's history to gender history, and then to poststructuralist challenges to that history. ..This revised edition includes an exciting new chapter looking at recent scholarship on race, gender and sexuality in colonial and transnational history, and on the history of the body. Highly accessible but also encouraging new debate, this book provides students with a comprehensive understanding of gender history, as well as its possible future...Praise for the first edition:..'Ingenuity and perspicuity shine through Laura Lee Downs' superb distillation and analysis of women's and gender history. To understand accomplishments and changes in the field, put this book at the top of your list.' Nancy F. Cott, Professor of American History, Harvard University...'Puts the entire range of women's and gender history into context, showing how it challenges the conventional pieties, opens up new veins of research, and transforms our understanding of every aspect of history. Her command of the literature is simply astounding. Sure to be seen as a landmark in the development of the field of history in the broadest sense.' Lynn Hunt, Professor of Modern European History, UCLA., How has feminist scholarship changed history? Writing Gender History explores the evolution of historical writing about women and gender from the 1930s until the early twenty-first century. With chapters on the history of Europe, the USA, colonial India and Africa, the disucssion moves from women's history to gender history, and then to poststructuralist challenges to that history. This revised edition includes an exciting new chapter looking at recent scholarship on race, gender and sexuality in colonial and transnational history, and on the history of the body. Highly accessibly but also encouraging new debate, this book provides students with a comprehensive understanding of gender history, as well as its possible future. Reviews of the first edition: 'Ingenuity and perspicuity shine through Laura Lee Downs' superb distillation and analysis of women's and gender history. To understand accomplishments and changes in the field, put this book at the top of your list.' Nancy F. Cott, Professor of American History, Harvard University. 'Puts the entire range of women's and gender history into context, showing how it challenges the conventional pieties, opens up new veins of research, and transforms our understanding of every aspect of history. Her command of the literature is simply astounding... Sure to be seen as a landmark in the development of the field of history in the broadest sense.' Lynn Hunt, Professor of Modern European History, UCLA., Essential for students and scholars alike, Writing Gender History, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive critical overview of the evolution and influence of gender in historical writing. Revised and updated to include recent scholarship by such figures as Judith Butler and Irène Théry, this edition adds material on psychoanalytic ways of thinking about gender--including Lacanian and Kleinian concepts--as examples of a third way to consider identity. It also examines the possible future of gender history and the link between scholarship and politics in the twenty-first century.

LC Classification NumberHQ1121