Looking Back to the Road Ahead

2010 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 574-584
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Jameson
Keyword(s):  
Women's History ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Academic Power ◽  
The Road ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Public Politics ◽  
Women’S History

The essays in this forum address the accomplishments and shortcomings of a quarter-century of western women's and gender history, suggesting future directions for the field. The authors differ in their assessments of efforts to achieve multicultural histories and to address relationships of power within western women's history, as well as about the impact of western women's history on western historical scholarship. This essay suggests that the differences in analysis, emphasis, and conclusions in the three essays that follow are only partly due to three authors' addressing different scholarly and popular discourses. Entrenched academic power relationships, conservative public politics, and the difficulty of imagining new narratives have all inhibited historians' efforts to interrogate power and disrupt relationships of domination. It is time to address these difficult and urgent tasks.

‘For pagans laugh to hear women teach’: Gender Stereotypes in the Didascalia Apostolorum

1998 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 23-35
Author(s):  
Charlotte Methuen
Keyword(s):  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Important Distinction ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Femininity And Masculinity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women’S History

The broader theme of gender and Christian religion presupposes three definitions: of Christianity, of religion, and of gender. Probably none of these is as simple as it might first appear, but that of gender is perhaps the most critical for our theme. Although there are still some who would use the terms ‘gender’ and ‘sex’ interchangeably, there is a growing tendency to recognize an important distinction between gender – that is, femininity and masculinity, regarded as largely socially constructed – and sex, the biological distinction between male and female human beings. Gender is best considered as born out of interactions between men and women. This means that the gender roles which make up what we experience as masculinity and femininity cannot be defined by looking only at men or at women, although ideas about both can be gained from looking at one group or the other. That is why gender history is different from women’s history, and that is why both women’s history and gender history are essential enterprises. We need women’s history because we need to know where women were as well as where they were not.

Feminist and Gender History Through the Literary Looking Glass: German Historiography in Postmodern Times

1989 ◽  
Vol 22 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 279-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel V. Hull
Keyword(s):  
Damage Control ◽  
Women's History ◽  
German History ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Gender History ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Vantage Points ◽  
Women’S History

The purpose of this essay is not to provide a review of the extensive literature on women's history, gender history, or feminist scholarship, but to reflect on the implications that these three vantage points have for the practice of writing German history. The framework for these reflections is the charge of the conference at which an earlier version of this paper was presented, namely, to consider the interdisciplinary, theoretical, and methodological challenges to historiography raised by “postmodernism.” These challenges are roughly similar for all national historiographies, though Germany's historians, it could be argued, have distinguished themselves by their especially intense focus on state institutions, national events, aggregated socioeconomic structures, large organizations, and the theories and methods appropriate to these concerns. Such foci stand in particular danger of being dissolved by alternate historiographic interests, like feminist, women's, and gender history. When the center no longer holds, that is the “postmodern” condition; their part in dissolving the center is what links feminist, women's, and gender history to “postmodernism.” Rather than rehearsing specific examples of how, say, women's history has challenged the received picture of German history, and thereby implicitly to suggest methods of damage control, this essay instead attempts to discuss some of the broader theoretical and methodological issues that feminist scholarship poses to historians and to do so within the context of the “postmodern.” References to the specific German context are mostly in the footnotes.

scholarly journals "Stepping up to the Call:" A Historiographical Analysis of Gender in 1930s Soviet Russia

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Habiba Khaled
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women’S History ◽  
The Way

In 1986 Joan Scott published “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,” an article examining the disconnect between the way in which gender is explored within the scholarship and gender history itself. In her work Scott operationalized gender as a framework. Utilizing Scott's framework, this historiographical analysis explores the question of gender as an analytical tool within the scholarship on 1930s Soviet Russia. Works produced prior to and post Scott's “calling” are categorized based upon a gender-based spectrum. Works are categorized as being: descriptive history exploring women; women’s history; beyond women’s history but short of gender history; and gender history. Situating the scholarship of 1930s Soviet Russia alongside Scott's conception of gender history allows for exploration of the evolution of gender- as an analytical tool utilized in the scholarship. Contrasting Scott's conception with scholars' usage of gender alludes to why gender, as a lens, is often overlooked.

scholarly journals La querella de las mujeres en Castilla (siglo XV) y su relación con la historia de las mujeres y la historia de género

2018 ◽  
pp. 36-56
Author(s):  
Roque Sampedro
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Querelle Des Femmes ◽  
The Third ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women’S History

Resumen  Este artículo pretende explorar las conexiones y particularidades de la historia de las mujeres y la historia de género a través de un ejemplo medieval: la llamada querella de las mujeres en la Castilla del siglo XV. Primero, se describirán brevemente los rasgos fundamentales de este debate sobre la condición femenina. A continuación, se analizará brevemente el surgimiento de la historia de las mujeres y la interpretación que se hace de la querella de las mujeres dentro de esta corriente historiográfica. En tercer lugar, se estudiarán la aplicación de postulados del feminismo de la diferencia a la querella en el ámbito castellano. Finalmente, se explicará la emergencia de la historia de género y se expondrán algunas de las posibles aproximaciones desde esta perspectiva al análisis de la querella de las mujeres.  Palabras clave  Historia de las mujeres, historia de género, querella de las mujeres, feminismo de la diferencia Abstract  This article aims to explore the connections and particularities of women's history and gender history through a medieval example: the so-called “querelle des femmes” in fifteenth century Castile. First, the fundamental traits of this debate about the feminine condition will be described. Next, I will analyze the emergence of women's history and the interpretation of the “querelle des femmes” within this historiographical tendency. In the third place, the use of the postulates of difference feminism in relation to the debate in a Castilian context will be studied. Finally, the emergence of gender history will be explained, and some of the posible approaches to the analysis of the “querelle des femmes” from this perspective will be layed out.  Key Words women's history, gender history, querelle des femmes, difference feminism

Women’s and Gender History

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Des Jardins
Keyword(s):  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Race Theory ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women’S History

This chapter looks at women’s history and its successor, gender history, which emerged as strong new approaches beginning in the 1970s—precisely when the wider feminist movement began to have its most profound impact on at least Euro-American societies. Gender history and women’s history are not the same. The former, larger category overlaps with the latter, and also with areas such as masculinity history, critical race theory, and queer studies. However, it has only been since the 1980s that historians have considered ‘gender’ an historical subject or ‘a useful category of historical analysis’. Nevertheless, various radical, Marxist, and progressive historians had planted the seeds of gender history as early as the 1920s and 1930s, even as they privileged neither women nor gender as subjects. Their questioning of power structures and engagement of politics and relativist concepts were integral to the development of the field later in the twentieth century.

scholarly journals Ethnic, Immigrant, and Racialized Women in Canada: A Historiography

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Dinh
Keyword(s):  
New Left ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Fair Share ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Complex Integration ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Women’S History

Since the emergence of ̳new left‘, bottom up approach to history in the 1960s and 1970s, women‘s and gender history has become a rich field for historians. Ethnic and immigrant women‘s history, as part of this larger movement, has seen its own fair share of growth. This paper examines the emergence of racialized women‘s history in Canada and analyzes the increasingly inclusive and complex integration of this field through the works of notable authors in recent decades.

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.

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