Gender, Women’s History, and Social History

1989 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise A. Tilly
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Social History ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Analytical Problem ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Olympe De Gouges ◽  
Women’S History ◽  
The Revolution

Recently, I attended a seminar at which a historian of women presented a dazzling interpretation of the polemical writing of Olympe de Gouges and its (not to mention her) reception during the French Revolution. A crusty old historian of the Revolution rose during the question period and inquired, in his own eastern twang, “Now that I know that women were participants in the Revolution, what difference does it make!” This encounter suggested to me what I will argue are two increasingly urgent tasks for women’s history: producing analytical problem-solving studies as well as descriptive and interpretive ones, and connecting their findings to general questions already on the historical agenda. This is not a call for integrating women’s history into other history, since that process may mean simply adding material on women and gender without analyzing its implications, but for writing analytical women’s history and connecting its problems to those of other histories. Only through such an endeavor is women’s history likely to change the agenda of history as a whole.

Women and Gender in the Apocrypha

2021 ◽  
pp. 476-497
Author(s):  
Sara Parks
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Literary Analysis ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Ancient Text ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
Women’S History

In this piece, Sara Parks examines women and gender in the Apocrypha and their adjacent texts. Parks highlights key shifts in the last fifty years in the study of apocryphal female characters, women’s history, and, more recently, theorized gender. She addresses methods for the reconstruction of women’s lived experiences from antique texts written overwhelmingly by and for men, when the nature of the ancient evidence is far from ideal for answering contemporary questions. Parks highlights several key apocryphal texts that have been studied for their female protagonists, but points out that, as masculinity is also under construction in the texts, the question of gender is applicable to every ancient text and artifact. Beyond the analysis of female protagonists and the quest for women’s history, gender is a lens through which all historical and literary analysis should be approached.

scholarly journals Long March of women: Labour movement and its impact on the intellectual and social history of conflicts

2021 ◽  
pp. 169-182
Author(s):  
Jelena Lalatović
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Social History ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Gender History ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Second World ◽  
Women’S History

This paper analyzes basic theoretical notions of the oppression of women, class inequality, women's history, and gender history discussed in the study named Dugi ženski marš. Položaj radnica i ženski aktivizam u Hrvatskoj između dvaju svjetskih ratova authored by a croatian historian Ana Rajković (2021). What is more, the paper examines the role of these assessments in creating the historiographical narrative as a whole. The study by Ana Rajković is an innovative synthesis of various insights about women's history in both the labour and feminist movement in Yugoslavia in the interwar period. Furthermore, the study provides possibilities for (re)interpretation of these insights in the context of women's contemporary social and intellectual history. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to re-examine the theoretical and methodological differences between contemporary historiography, of which Ana Rajković is a representative, and seminal historical syntheses in Yugoslavia after the Second World War, whose main focus was also on female members of the communist movement and their activity in the interwar period.

Introduction

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 551-554
Author(s):  
Beth Baron
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Gender History ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Cultural Turn ◽  
Women’S History

Women's history emerged as a branch of social history in the 1970s, parallel to the feminist movement. Scholars of the Arab world, Iran, and Turkey began producing studies in numbers in the 1980s. The trickle of scholarship became a stream in the 1990s, developing greater theoretical complexity with the incorporation of gender as a category of analysis. The taking up of gender coincided with the cultural turn in historical studies, and gender history built on, or encompassed, women's history, as questions about whether “women” was a category at all were raised. The interest in gender was quickly followed by attention to sexuality, masculinity, and related topics.

scholarly journals Getting Out of a Rut: Decolonizing Western Women's History

2010 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 585-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret D. Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
Women Of Color ◽  
American West ◽  
White Women ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
The West ◽  
Western History ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Do So ◽  
Women’S History

For over three decades, western women's historians have been working not just to challenge male biases within western history scholarship but also to create a more multicultural inclusive narrative. Paradoxically, however, the overarching narrative of western women's history continues to sideline women of color and to advance a triumphalist interpretation of white women in the West. This essay argues that a multicultural approach has not provided an adequate framework for understanding women and gender in the American West. Instead, western women historians must "decolonize" our narrative and our field through seriously considering the West as a colonial site. To do so, we must employ the tools and theories that scholars of gender and colonialism worldwide have developed to analyze other comparable colonial contexts and projects.

Comment: Conceptualizing Gender in American Business History

1998 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan W. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Labor History ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Business History ◽  
American Business ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women’S History

Business history is not a field whose problematic I know, although these papers and one I read by Angel Kwolek-Folland, which was given here last spring, provide a helpful introduction. Instead, I come from exactly those fields, as the papers point out, that have been the traditional ones for thinking about women and gender: women's history and labor history. The challenge is to extend insights from those fields to business history.

scholarly journals Historia, mujeres y género: de una historia sin género a una historia de género

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-50
Author(s):  
Uxía  Otero-González
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
El Paso ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women’S History

Resumen Este artículo tiene por objeto el reflexionar sobre de la historiografía de las mujeres y el género. En primer lugar, se examina de forma sucinta el paso de una historia sin mujeres a una historia de las mujeres. En segundo lugar, se presta atención al “género” como categoría de análisis histórico y al desplazamiento hacia una historia de esta noción. A continuación, se considera la andadura hacia la institucionalización y el reconocimiento de estos estudios. Por último, se presentan algunos problemas y algunos retos actuales que caracterizan a este campo de investigación. Palabras claves Historia, mujeres, (relaciones de) género    Abstract  This article aims to reflect on women and gender historiography. First, we succinctly examine the transition from a history without women to a women’s history. Second, we pay attention to “gender” as a category of historical analysis and to the displacement to a gender history. Third, we consider the path towards institutionalization and recognition of these studies. And finally, we present some current problems and challenges characteristic of this field of research.  Key words  History, women, gender (relations)  

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.

scholarly journals Women and Gender in 1917

Slavic Review ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 694-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Significant Issue ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Revolution

This paper argues for greater integration of considerations of women and gender in the history of the 1917 Russian Revolutions. Two key issues have long been discussed by historians: the spontaneity/consciousness paradigm, and the role of class in the revolution. Neither has been adequately analyzed in relation to gender. Women's suffrage has been largely neglected despite the fact that it was a significant issue throughout the year and represented a pioneering advance won by a countrywide coalition of women and men from the working class and intelligentsia, and from almost all political parties. In this centennial year, accounts of the Revolution remain one-dimensional; women remain the other.

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