Writing Womens History International Perspectives [Paperback]

Five essays address such themes as the relationship between feminist history and women's history, the use of the concept of experience , the development of the history of gender, demographic history and women's history and the importance of post-structuralism to women's history.Part 1 Conceptual and methodological issues: challenging dichotomies - perspectives on women's history, Gisela Bock; demographic history and its perception of women from the 17th to the 19th century, Anne-Lise Head-Konig; uneven developments - women's history, feminist history, and gender history in Great Britain, Jane Rendall; finding our own ways - different paths to women's history in the United States, Phyllis Stock-Morton; experience, difference, dominance and voice in the writing of Canadian women's history, Ruth Roach Pierson; women's culture and women's power - issues in French women's history, Cecile Dauphin et al; global women's history - organizing principles and cross-cultural understandings, Ida Blom. Part 2 The state of the art in women's history: writing the history of Australian women, Patricia Grimshaw; the development of women's history in Japan, Noriyo Hayakawa; women's history in India - a historiographical survey, Aparn Basu; writing women into history - the Nigerian experience, Bolanle Awe; women's history in Norway - a short survey, Ingeborg Floystad; the state of women's history in Denmark, Nanna Damsholt; the state of women's history in Sweden - an overview, Yvonne Hirdman; women's history behind the dykes - reflections of the situation in the Netherlands, Francisca de Haan; women's history in Austria, Brigette Mazohl-Wallnig; issues in women's history in the Federal Republic of Germany, Ute Frevert and Christina Vanja; historical research on women in the German Democratic Republic, Petra Rantzsch and Erika Uitz; women's history in Switzerland, Regina Wecker; women's history in Brazil - production and perspectives, Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva; two decades of women'sl•