Beschreibung:
This book considers the promise of women's and gender history for revolutionizing our understanding of the past, while also acknowledging the national political, financial, and other contextual realities that constrain women's history research. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Women's History Review.
Introduction 1. Women's History at the Cutting Edge: a joint paper in two voices 2. The Dangers of Complacency: women's history/gender history in Canada in the twenty-first century 3. The History of Women and Gender: French perspectives on the last twenty years 4. From Invisibility to Marginality: women's history in Romania 5. Women's History at the Cutting Edge in Japan 6. Women's and Gender Studies of the Russian Past: two contemporary trends 7. 'A Glass Half Full'? Women's history in the UK 8. Women's History in Many Places: reflections on plurality, diversity and polyversality