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Title Retrieving women's history : changing perceptions of the role of women in politics and society / edited by S. Jay Kleinberg.

Imprint Oxford [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Berg ; Paris, France : Unesco Press, 1988.

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 Moore Stacks  HQ1121 .R48 1989    Available  ---
Description xii, 380 pages ; 22 cm.
Series Berg/Unesco comparative studies
Berg/Unesco comparative studies.
Note Based on papers from the International Meeting of Experts on "Theoretical Frameworks and Methodological Approaches to Studies on the Role of Women in History as Actors in Economic, Social, and Political Ideological Processes" convened by Unesco in Paris, Nov. 1984.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction / S. Jay Kleinberg -- Part I : Theoretical and methodological issues in the study of women in history -- The problem of invisibility / John Wallach Scott -- The presentation of African women in historical writing / Ayesha Mei-Tje Imam -- Making history : women in France / Michelle Perrot -- Redressing the balance or transforming the art? the British experience / Anna Davin -- The role of women in the history of the Arab states / Soha Abdel Kader -- Part II : Women, work, and family -- Women and the slave plantation economy in the Caribbean / Rhoda Reddock -- Historical evolution in the sexual division of labour in Nigeria / Simi Afonja -- Sexual divisions : women's work in late nineteenth-century England / Jane Lewis -- Hidden work : outwork in Dutch industrialization / Selma Leydesdorff -- Women in the economy of the United States from the American Revolution to 1920 / S. Jay Kleinberg -- Part III : Women, the state and politics -- From empire to nation state : transformations of the woman question in Turkey / Deniz Kandiyoti -- Women, state and politics : the Soviet experience / Marietta Stepaniants -- Women's politics and women in politics in Norway since the end of the nineteenth century / Ida Bloom -- Feminism and politics : women and the vote in Uruguay / Silvia Rodriguez Villamil and Graciela Sapriza -- Part IV : Towards developing a history of women : regional and cultural challenges -- The history of women in Latin America / Carmen Ramos -- Breaking out of invisibility : rewriting the history of women in ancient India / Uma Chakravarti and Kum Kum Roy -- Women in Muslim history : traditional perspectives and new strategies / Fatima Mernissi -- Breaking the silence and broadening the frontiers of history : recent studies on African women / Zenebeworke Tadesse.
Subject Women -- History -- Congresses.
Women.
History.
Women's studies -- Congresses.
Women's studies.
Sexual division of labor -- History -- Congresses.
Sexual division of labor.
Women -- Political activity -- History -- Congresses.
Women -- Political activity.
Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Kleinberg, S. J.
Unesco.
International Meeting of Experts on "Theoretical Frameworks and Methodological Approaches to Studies on the Role of Women in History as Actors in Economic, Social, Political, and Ideological Processes" (1984 : Paris, France)
ISBN 0854962646 : $50.00 (U.S. : est.)