Author : Laura Lee Downs
Release : 2010-03-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 169/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Writing Gender History by : Laura Lee Downs
Download or read book Writing Gender History written by Laura Lee Downs. This book was released on 2010-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has feminist scholarship changed history? Writing Gender History explores the evolution of historical writing about women and gender from the 1930s until the early twenty-first century. With chapters on the history of Europe, the USA, colonial India and Africa, the discussion moves from women's history to gender history, and then to poststructuralist challenges to that history. This revised edition includes an exciting new chapter looking at recent scholarship on race, gender and sexuality in colonial and transnational history, and on the history of the body. Highly accessibly but also encouraging new debate, this book provides students with a comprehensive understanding of gender history, as well as its possible future.