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This stimulating volume offers a cross-disciplinary selection of recent articles on feminist history. Dismissing essentialist accounts of a universal female identity, the contributors examine how ideas about sexual difference are shaped by specific socio-historical circumstances. How, for example, do issues such as race, class, gender, and sexuality impact on the experience of "women"? How are such categories defined in widely disparate cultures and time periods? Refreshingly open to non-western, as well as western, perspectives, Feminism and History addresses subjects from the experience of women in Colonial Asia to the ideology of sexual difference in Nazi Germany. Timely, provocative, and influential, these essays raise intriguing questions about the future direction of women's history.
| Notes on Contributors | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | Does A Sex Have A History? | 17 |
| 2 | The Dialectics of Black Womanhood | 34 |
| 3 | Theorizing Woman: Funu Guojia, Jiating (Chinese Women, Chinese State, Chinese Family) | 48 |
| 4 | 'Women's History' in Transition: The European Case | 79 |
| 5 | The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex | 105 |
| 6 | Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis | 152 |
| 7 | African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race | 183 |
| 8 | Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Gender, Race, and Morality in Colonial Asia | 209 |
| 9 | Equality and Difference in National Socialist Racism | 267 |
| 10 | Southern Honour, Southern Dishonour: Managerial Ideology and the Construction of Gender, Race, and Class Relations in Southern Industry | 293 |
| 11 | Sex and Skill: Notes Towards a Feminist Economics | 317 |
| 12 | Discipline and Respectability: Prostitution and the Reformation in Augsburg | 333 |
| 13 | The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America | 366 |
| 14 | Creating Boundaries: Homosexuality and the Changing Social Order in France, 1830-1870 | 398 |
| 15 | Female Desires: The Meaning of World War II | 429 |
| 16 | Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke | 453 |
| 17 | Gender in the Critiques of Colonialism and Nationalism: Locating the 'Indian Woman' | 477 |
| 18 | A Gender Diary | 505 |
| 19 | Historiography, Objectivity, and the Case of the Abusive Widow | 547 |
| 20 | Women's Culture and Women's Power: Issues in French Women's History | 568 |
| Bibliography | 597 | |
| Index | 603 |
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This stimulating volume offers a cross-disciplinary selection of recent articles on feminist history. Dismissing essentialist accounts of a universal female identity, the contributors examine how ideas about sexual difference are shaped by specific socio-historical circumstances. How, for example, do issues such as race, class, gender, and sexuality impact on the experience of "women"? How are such categories defined in widely disparate cultures and time periods? Refreshingly open to non-western, as well as ...