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1 online resource (165 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Making History
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Making History.
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Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgement; 1. Woman as a force in history; 2. A moment in history 1969-75; 3. Liberating women's history 1976-83; 4. Gender, a useful category of historical analysis 1983-7; 5. A multiple vision 1988-9; 6. Writing inside the kaleidoscope 1990-3; 7. The shape of an historical community 1993-9; Bibliography; Index. |
Summary |
Why are most famous historians men? How have women changed the writing of history over the last decades? What lives and stories have been hidden from history?Until recently history was predominantly the domain of men. That men were the authors of our past meant that in many cases only half of the story was told. In the second half of the twentieth century, however, the picture changed. Women, and indeed some men as well, started to address gender history. Women had been investigated historically before, but never with such intensity, nor such breadth. The impetus for this writing was. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Women -- History -- Historiography.
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Women. |
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History. |
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Historiography. |
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History -- Methodology.
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History -- Methodology. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
Other Form: |
Print version: Alberti, Johanna. Gender and the Historian. Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2014 9780582404632 |
ISBN |
9781317877103 (electronic book) |
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1317877101 (electronic book) |
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