Gender History Across Epistemologies
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Epistemological critiques--questions about how we know what we know--are intrinsic to gender history. The essays in this collection reveal the divers ways in which historians of gender are crossing boundaries--disciplinary, methodological, and national--to explore new opportunities for viewing gender as a category of historical analysis. The result is a broad range of innovative approaches to gender history. This important examination of how various ways of knowing operate in current historical research on gender demonstrates that recent approaches to gender history encompass surprising…mehr

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Epistemological critiques--questions about how we know what we know--are intrinsic to gender history. The essays in this collection reveal the divers ways in which historians of gender are crossing boundaries--disciplinary, methodological, and national--to explore new opportunities for viewing gender as a category of historical analysis. The result is a broad range of innovative approaches to gender history. This important examination of how various ways of knowing operate in current historical research on gender demonstrates that recent approaches to gender history encompass surprising crossovers and common grounds unimaginable even two decades ago.
Gender History Across Epistemologies offers broad rangeof innovative approaches to gender history. The essays reveal howhistorians of gender are crossing boundaries - disciplinary,methodological, and national - to explore new opportunities forviewing gender as a category of historical analysis.

Essays present epistemological and theoretical debates centralin gender history over the past two decades
Contributions within this volume to the work on gender historyare approached from a wide range of disciplinary locations andapproaches
The volume demonstrates that recent approaches to genderhistory suggest surprising crossovers and even the discovery ofcommon grounds
Autorenporträt
Donna R. Gabaccia is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She is author of We Are What We Eat: Ethnic Food and the Making of Americans (1998), Italy's Many Diasporas (2000), and Foreign Relations: Global Perspectives on U.S. Immigration (2012); she is also co-editor of Intimacy and Italian Migration: Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World (with Loretta Baldassar, 2010). Gabaccia is on the editorial board of Gender & History, Journal of American Ethnic History and Journal of Modern Italian Studies. Mary Jo Maynes is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Taking the Hard Road: Life Course and Class Identity in French and German Workers' Autobiographies of the Industrial Era (1995) and co-author of Telling Stories: The Use of Personal Narratives in the Social Sciences and History (with Jennifer Pierce and Barbara Laslett, 2008) and Family: A World History (with Ann Waltner, 2012). She is on the editorial board of Gender & History, the Journal of Global History, and the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth.