Making Women's Histories: Beyond National Perspectives

by Pamela S. Nadell (Editor), Kate Haulman (Editor)

Overview

Examines how women's histories are explored and explained around the world

Making Women's Histories showcases the transformations that the intellectual and political production of women’s history has engendered across time and space. It considers the difference women’s and gender history has made to and within national fields of study, and to what extent the wider historiography has integrated this new knowledge. What are the accomplishments of women’s and gender history? What are its shortcomings? What is its future?

The contributors discuss their discovery of women’s histories, the multiple turns the field has taken, and how place affected the course of this scholarship. Noted scholars of women’s and gender history, they stand atop such historiographically-defined vantage points as Tsarist Russia, the British Empire in Egypt and India, Qing-dynasty China, and the U.S. roiling through the 1960s. From these and other peaks they gaze out at the world around them, surveying trajectories in the creation of women’s histories in recent and distant pasts and envisioning their futures.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814758922
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	01/07/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	382,474
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Pamela S. Nadell is Professor of History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at American University. She is the author of Women Who Would Be Rabbis: A History of Women’s Ordination, 1889-1985, which was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and co-editor of Women and American Judaism: Historical Perspectives.
Kate Haulman is Assistant Professor of History at American University. She is the author of The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth- Century America.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  Writing Women’s History across Time and SpacePamela S. Nadell and Kate HaulmanImagining New Histories 1. Women’s Past and the Currents of U.S. History Kathy Peiss 2. New Directions in Russian and Soviet Women’s History Barbara Alpern Engel 3. Putting the Political in EconomyClaire Robertson 4. Sexual Crises, Women’s History, and the History of Sexuality in Europe Anna ClarkEngendering National and Nationalist Projects 5. Gender and the Politics of Exceptionalism in the Writing of British Women’s History Arianne Chernock 6. Amateur Historians, the “Woman Question,” and the Production of Modern History in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Egypt Lisa Pollard  7. Women’s and Gender History in Modern India: Researching the Past, Reflecting on the Present Mytheli SreenivasExploring Transnational Approaches 8. World History Meets History of Masculinity in Latin American StudiesUlrike Strasser and Heidi Tinsman  9. Connecting Histories of Gender, Health, and U.S.-China Relations Cristina Zaccarini 10. A Happier Marriage? Feminist History Takes the Transnational TurnJocelyn Olcott About the Contributors Index 

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Making Women’s Histories is an innovative collection that brings together state-of-the-art essays on developments in national, continental, transnational, and thematic areas. In its attention to the politics of women’s history—personal and structural connections to women’s movements, the impact of nationalism and imperialism, the impact of globalization—the volume reminds us how important the history we write and teach is for making the world a better place."-Leila J. Rupp,University of California, Santa Barbara

"A smart, insightful, and thought-provoking book. The juxtaposition of nationally/regionally based historiographical essays by leading scholars offers striking new insights into the origins and diverse trajectories of women’s and gender history, and into the ways in which feminist scholarship is informing comparative, transnational, and international histories. A must-read for anyone interested in world-historical scholarship."-Birgitte Søland,The Ohio State University

Editorial Reviews

"[T]his collection is well worth reading by serious scholars of women's and gender history."

Simone M. Caronn Historical Review

"Making Womens Historiesis an invaluable guide for undergraduate and graduate students with varying levels of experience in history, gender and feminist studies, and historiography."

Feminist Collections

"Making Womens Histories is an innovative collection that brings together state-of-the-art essays on developments in national, continental, transnational, and thematic areas. In its attention to the politics of womens historypersonal and structural connections to womens movements, the impact of nationalism and imperialism, the impact of globalizationthe volume reminds us how important the history we write and teach is for making the world a better place."

Leila J. Rupp

"A smart, insightful, and thought-provoking book. The juxtaposition of nationally/regionally based historiographical essays by leading scholars offers striking new insights into the origins and diverse trajectories of womens and gender history, and into the ways in which feminist scholarship is informing comparative, transnational, and international histories. A must-read for anyone interested in world-historical scholarship."

Birgitte Soland

"This outstanding collection contributes to the usable past" and should help readers understand the present and shape the future. Summing Up: Highly recommended."

Choice

"Fusing the personal, political, and professional, Making Women's Histories situates women's, gender, and sexuality history as an unfinished global project of activist scholarship."

Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

"[T]his collection is well worth reading by serious scholars of women's and gender history."

American Historical Review - Simone M. Caron

"A smart, insightful, and thought-provoking book. The juxtaposition of nationally/regionally based historiographical essays by leading scholars offers striking new insights into the origins and diverse trajectories of women’s and gender history, and into the ways in which feminist scholarship is informing comparative, transnational, and international histories. A must-read for anyone interested in world-historical scholarship."-Birgitte Soland,The Ohio State University

"[T]his collection is well worth reading by serious scholars of women's and gender history."-Simone M. Caron,American Historical Review

From the Publisher