The contributors of "Contesting Archives" challenge the assumption
that an archive is a neutral, immutable, and a historical
repository of information. Instead, these historians view it as a
place where decisions are made about whose documents--and therefore
whose history--is important. Finding that women's voices and their
texts were often obscured or lost altogether, they have developed
many new methodologies for creating unique archives and uncovering
more evidence by reading documents "against the grain," weaving
together many layers of information to reveal complexities and
working collectively to reconstruct the lives of women in the past.
Global in scope, this volume demonstrates innovative research on
diverse women from the sixteenth century to the present in Spain,
Mexico, Tunisia, India, Iran, Poland, Mozambique, and the United
States. Addressing gender, race, class, nationalism,
transnationalism, and migration, these essays' subjects include
indigenous women of colonial Mexico, Muslim slave women, African
American women of the early twentieth century, Bengali women
activists of pre-independence India, wives and daughters of Qajar
rulers in Iran, women industrial workers in communist Poland and
socialist Mozambique, and women club owners in modern Las Vegas. A
foreword by Antoinette Burton adroitly synthesizes the disparate
themes woven throughout the book. Contributors are Janet Afary,
Maryam Ameli-Rezai, Antoinette Burton, Nupur Chaudhuri, Julia
Clancy-Smith, Mansoureh Ettehadieh, Malgorzata Fidelis, Joanne L.
Goodwin, Kali Nicole Gross, Daniel S. Haworth, Sherry J. Katz,
Elham Malekzadeh, Mary Elizabeth Perry, Kathleen Sheldon, Lisa
Sousa, and Ula Y. Taylor.
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