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Writing women's history: international perspectives

Karen M. Offen, Ruth Roach Pierson and Jane Rendall c1991 © Karen M. Offen
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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements (page xi)
  • Foreword (Ida Blom, President, International Federation for Research in Women's History/Fédération internationale pour la recherce de l'histoire des femmes, page xiii)
  • Editorial Note (Karen Offen, Ruth Roach Pierson, and Jane Rendall, page xvii)
  • Introduction (The Editors, page xix)
  • PART ONE: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
    • 1 Challenging Dichotomies: Perspectives on Women's History (Gisela Bock, page 1)
    • 2 Demographic History and its Perception of Women from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century (Anne-Lise Head-König, page 25)
    • 3 Uneven Developments: Women's History, Feminist History, and Gender History in Great Britain (Jane Rendall, page 45)
    • 4 Finding Our Own Ways: Different Paths to Women's History in the United States (Phyllis Stock-Morton, page 59)
    • 5 Experience, Difference, Dominance and Voice in the Writing of Canadian Women's History (Ruth Roach Pierson, page 79)
    • 6 Women's Culture and Women's Power: Issues in French Women's History (Cécile Dauphin, Arlette Farge, Geneviève Fraisse, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Rose-Marie Lagrave, Michelle Perrot, Pierette Pfzerat, Yannick Ripa, Pauline Schmitt-Pantel, Danièle Voldman, page 107)
    • 7 Global Women's History: Organising Principles and Cross-Cultural Understandings (Ida Blom, page 135)
  • PART TWO: THE STATE OF THE ART IN WOMEN'S HISTORY
    • 8 Writing the History of Australian Women (Patricia Grimshaw, page 151)
    • 9 The Development of Women's History in Japan (Noriyo Hayakawa, page 171)
    • 10 Women's History in India: An Historiographical Survey (Aparna Basu, page 181)
    • 11 Writing Women into History: The Nigerian Experience (Bolanle Awe, page 211)
    • 12 Women's History in Norway: A Short Survey (Ingeborg Fløystad, page 221)
    • 13 The State of Women's History in Denmark (Nanna Damsholt, page 231)
    • 14 The State of Women's History in Sweden: An Overview (Yvonne Hirdman, page 239)
    • 15 Women's History Behind the Dykes: Reflections on the Situation in the Netherlands (Francisca de Haan, page 259)
    • 16 Women's History in Austria (Brigitte Mazohl-Wallnig, page 279)
    • 17 Historical Research on Women in the Federal Republic of Germany (Ute Frevert, Heide Wunder, and Christina Vanja, page 291)
    • 18 Historical Research on Women in the German Democratic Republic (Petra Rantzsch and Erika Uitz, page 333)
    • 19 Women's History in Switzerland (Regina Wecker, page 355)
    • 20 Women's History in Brazil: Production and Perspectives (Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva, page 369)
    • 21 Two Decades of Women's History in Spain: A Reappraisal (Mary Nash, page 381)
    • 22 Women's History in Yugoslavia (Andrea Feldman, page 417)
    • 23 The 'History of Women' in Greece (Efi Avdela, page 423)
    • 24 Women's History in Ireland (Mary Cullen, page 429)
    • 25 Women's History in Italy (Paola Di Cori, page 443)
    • 26 Women, Gender and Family in the Soviet Union and Central/East Europe: A Preliminary Bibliography (Mary F. Zirin, page 457)
  • Notes on Contributors (page 517)
  • Index (Beth McAuley, page 525)
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AHR 98.1 (Feb. 1993): 130-131 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199302%2998%3A1%3C130%3AWWHIP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V
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