Women’s History in India: An Historiographical Survey

1991 ◽  
pp. 181-209
Author(s):  
Aparna Basu
Keyword(s):  
Women's History ◽  
Women’S History

Writing Women into the Russian Revolution of 1917

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 214-231
Author(s):  
Adele Lindenmeyr
Keyword(s):  
Labor Force ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
Women’S History ◽  
The Revolution

Abstract While scholarship on Russian women’s history has flourished in recent decades, the participation of women in the 1917 Revolution continues to be under-researched and poorly understood. This article explores various reasons for the marginalization of women in studies of the revolution. It reviews promising recent research that recovers women’s experiences and voices, including work on women in the wartime labor force and soldiers’ wives, and argues for the usefulness of a feminist and gendered approach to studying 1917.

Reconstructing Women’s History in Antiquity

2019 ◽  
pp. 38-58
Author(s):  
Ross S. Kraemer
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Christian Women ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Women’S History

This chapter analyzes the practical and theoretical challenges to writing women’s history, particularly for the period in which Christianity begins. It explores problems of definition and the conjunction of the terms “history,” “women,” and “Christian.” It surveys the surviving data, including literary sources composed by women (or not), literary sources composed by men, documentary evidence, inscriptions, and legal materials, with an eye to both ancient women’s history in general and early Christian women specifically. The chapter concludes that, in spite of the enormous challenges, to abandon the effort to do this work is ethically problematic, in that it reproduces, reauthorizes, and reinscribes the exclusion of women from historical memory.

Women's History: Culture and Feminization

1978 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 155
Author(s):  
Lois W. Banner ◽  
Bell Gale Chevigny ◽  
Ann Douglas ◽  
Linda Gordon ◽  
Barbara Welter
Keyword(s):  
Women's History ◽  
Women’S History

scholarly journals Women, Bridal Girdles, and the Household in Renaissance Prague

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Anna Parker
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Property System ◽  
Women's Power ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Gendered Roles ◽  
Moral Discourses ◽  
Women’S History

Abstract This article addresses early modern women's power through an object study of the wedding girdle, a thickly embellished belt that was the most costly, emblematic, and intimate item in a Renaissance bride's trousseau, and which uniquely illuminates the lives of women. Building on the work that women's history has done to uncover how women navigated the patriarchal system, I propose that a focus on the household is vital to understanding the socially specific ways in which burgher women – members of the citizen class of Renaissance Prague – exerted agency in their daily lives. Burgher sensibilities, specifically the desire to display the prosperity, industry, and piety of their households, created distinct mechanisms for women to assert themselves. This article sets women's lives against the interwoven structures of the household, namely, gendered roles and expectations, the legal property system, and moral discourses surrounding marriage. By levering these structures, the same that constrained them, burgher women were able to express power.

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