Women's History at the Cutting Edge (Hardcover)

This book considers the promise of women's and gender history for revolutionizing our understanding of the past while also acknowledging the current national political, financial, and other contextual realities that can (and do) constrain or promote the possibilities for researching and writing women's history. The editors assert that the promise of women's and gender history is a cutting edge field of research, "a revolutionary development in the politics of historical scholarship," essential for understanding the human past. Further, they argue for the inseparability of women's history and gendered analytical approaches. The contributors to the volume address questions including: what have been the achievements of women's and gender history over the past two decades? To what extent has it succeeded in making women's history an integral part of historical study rather than an optional specialist area? What impact has the study of manhood, masculinities, and men's gendered power had on our understanding of women's lives? What is the relationship between gender studies and new critical histories of colonialism and empire, contact zones, cross-cultural encounters, and racialization? How is new work on cultural geography and spatial categories impacting on our historical understandings of bodily difference? This book was originally published as a special issue of the Women's History Review.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2018
First published:	2019
Editors:	Karen Offen • Chen Yan
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 8mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	120
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-02907-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > History > World history > General
LSN:	0-367-02907-3
Barcode:	9780367029074

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