Susan Morgan

The Feminist History Reader

Herausgegeben:Morgan, Sue

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This Reader gathers together key articles, from some of the very best writers in the field that have shaped the dynamic historiography of the past thirty years, and introduces students to the major shifts and turning points in the dialogue of feminism.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Readers in History
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: RU1810X
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 760g
• ISBN-13: 9780415318105
• ISBN-10: 0415318106
• Artikelnr.: 20772833

Autorenporträt

Sue Morgan is Principal Lecturer in History and Head of the School of Cultural Studies at the University of Chichester. She is the author of A Passion for Purity: Ellice Hopkins and the politics of gender in the late-Victorian church (1999), co-editor of Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture (2000) and editor of Women, Religion and Feminism in Britain, 1750--1900 (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Bringing the Female Subject into View 1. The Trouble With Patriarchy 2. Feminism and History 3. Golden Age to Separate Spheres? A Review of the Categories and Chronology of English Women's History 4. Politics and Culture in Women's History: A Symposium 5. Women's History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate 6. History and the Challenge of Gender History Part 2: Deconstructing the Female Subject: Feminist History and 'The Linguistic Turn' 7. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis 8. Does Sex Have a History? 9. Gender History/Women's History: Is Feminist Scholarship Losing its Critical Edge? 10. Gender as a Postmodern Category of Paralysis 11. Postmodern Blackness 12. Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of 'Postmodernism' Part 3: Searching for the Subject: Lesbian History 13. Who Hid Lesbian History? 14. Does it Matter if They Did it? 15. Lesbian History: All Theory and No Facts or All Facts and No Theory? 16. Queer: Theorizing Politics and History 17. 'Lesbian-Like' and the Social History of Lesbianisms 18. Toward a Global History of Same-Sex Sexuality Part 4: Centres of Difference: Decolonising Subjects: Rethinking Boundaries 19. Gender and Race: The Ampersand Problem in Feminist Thought 20. Challenging Imperial Feminism 21. An Open Letter to Mary Daly 22. 'What Has Happened Here?': The Politics of Difference in Women's History and Feminist Politics 23. Dead Women Tell No Tales: Issues of Female Subjectivity, Subaltern Agency and Tradition in Colonial and Postcolonial Writings on Widow Immolation in India 24. Gender and Nation 25. 'Introduction' to Civilizing Subjects 26. Rethinking Boundaries: Feminism and (Inter)Nationalism in Early-Twentieth-Century India 27. Actions Louder than Words: The Historical Task of Defining Feminist Consciousness in Colonial West Africa 28. 'Under Western Eyes' Revisited: Feminist Solidarity Through Anticapitalist Struggles 29. Feminism's History

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Introduction Part 1: Bringing the Female Subject into View 1. The Trouble
With Patriarchy 2. Feminism and History 3. Golden Age to Separate Spheres?
A Review of the Categories and Chronology of English Women's History 4.
Politics and Culture in Women's History: A Symposium 5. Women's History and
Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate 6. History and the
Challenge of Gender History Part 2: Deconstructing the Female Subject:
Feminist History and 'The Linguistic Turn' 7. Gender: A Useful Category of
Historical Analysis 8. Does Sex Have a History? 9. Gender History/Women's
History: Is Feminist Scholarship Losing its Critical Edge? 10. Gender as a
Postmodern Category of Paralysis 11. Postmodern Blackness 12. Contingent
Foundations: Feminism and the Question of 'Postmodernism' Part 3: Searching
for the Subject: Lesbian History 13. Who Hid Lesbian History? 14. Does it
Matter if They Did it? 15. Lesbian History: All Theory and No Facts or All
Facts and No Theory? 16. Queer: Theorizing Politics and History 17.
'Lesbian-Like' and the Social History of Lesbianisms 18. Toward a Global
History of Same-Sex Sexuality Part 4: Centres of Difference: Decolonising
Subjects: Rethinking Boundaries 19. Gender and Race: The Ampersand Problem
in Feminist Thought 20. Challenging Imperial Feminism 21. An Open Letter to
Mary Daly 22. 'What Has Happened Here?': The Politics of Difference in
Women's History and Feminist Politics 23. Dead Women Tell No Tales: Issues
of Female Subjectivity, Subaltern Agency and Tradition in Colonial and
Postcolonial Writings on Widow Immolation in India 24. Gender and Nation
25. 'Introduction' to Civilizing Subjects 26. Rethinking Boundaries:
Feminism and (Inter)Nationalism in Early-Twentieth-Century India 27.
Actions Louder than Words: The Historical Task of Defining Feminist
Consciousness in Colonial West Africa 28. 'Under Western Eyes' Revisited:
Feminist Solidarity Through Anticapitalist Struggles 29. Feminism's History

Rezensionen

"a stylish set of readings which will enable important issues about feminist historical theorizing to be addressed and debated in the classroom"

Liz Stanley, Feminist Review