scholarly journals A Novel Attempt at Writing the Women’s History of the Russian Revolution (Reviewing: Cox’s J. The Women's Revolution: Russia 1905–1917. Chicago, Haymarket Book Publ., 2019, 133 p.)

2021 ◽  
pp. 149-154
Author(s):  
И.К. Богомолов
Keyword(s):  
Women's Movement ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women’S History

В рецензии анализируется монография Джуди Кокс о «женском» взгляде на российскую революцию. Констатируется, что эта новая попытка создать историю «женской революции» в целом оказалась неудачной. История женского движения в России на рубеже XIX–ХХ веков прослежена автором поверхностно с привлечением узкого круга источников и с явным перекосом в сторону большевистской партии. В результате в работе обойдены вниманием многие известные деятели революционного движения, например Мария Спиридонова. В то же время появление такой работы позволяет задуматься о целесообразности отдельных, «мужских» и «женских», обобщающих историй российской революции, как и других социальных катаклизмов сопоставимого масштаба. The article analyzes Judi Cox’s monograph which views the Russian revolution through the lens of female perception. The author of the article maintains that Cox’s attempt to write the women’s history of the Russian Revolution can hardly be called successful. The author of the monograph investigates the history of the women’s movement in Russia at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries in a rather superficial way. The author of the monograph relies on a meager number of sources and views the situation from the Bolshevist perspective. As a result many prominent revolutionaries, such as Maria Spiridonova, remain in the shadow of oblivion. However, the monograph makes one wonder about the necessity of investigating social dramas, such as the Russian revolution, through the prism of male and female perception.

scholarly journals COMPETING NARRATIVES: HISTORIES OF THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT IN IRAQ, 1910–58

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 466a-466a
Author(s):  
Noga Efrati
Keyword(s):  
Women's Rights ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women’S History

The history of the women's movement in Iraq before 1958 has received little attention in contemporary scholarly literature published in English. Moreover, when surveying the brief accounts in secondary sources, one is struck by their inconsistency. Upon closer examination, two historiographical approaches emerge. One primarily follows the development of women's activities sanctioned by the regime, focusing on organizations and activists associated with the Iraqi Women's Union, established in 1945. The second approach traces developments and organizations linked with the underground League for the Defense of Women's Rights, founded in 1952. This essay argues that members of the rival union and league constructed two competing narratives in presenting the history of the women's movement in pre-1958 Iraq. The article unpacks these two different narratives as they were originally articulated by activists in order to piece together a more elaborate portrayal of the evolution of the early Iraqi women's movement. The essay also explores how scholars have reproduced these narratives, arguing that both activists and researchers were active participants in a “war of narratives” that left women's history the unfortunate casualty

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 Introduction: Women’s history month and the history of women in neurosurgery

2021 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 315
Author(s):  
Katharine J. Drummond ◽  
Gail Rosseau
Keyword(s):  
Women's History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women’S History

"I Will Not Eat Stone": A Women's History of Colonial Asante (review)

Africa Today ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-101
Author(s):  
Hannington Ochwada
Keyword(s):  
Women's History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women’S History

Interlocutors? Men Authoring Women’s History in the 1890s

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Booth
Keyword(s):  
Young Men ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
French History ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Subject Choice ◽  
Islamic Women ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women’S History

This chapter juxtaposes Fawwaz’s use of female biography with selected works by male contemporaries that include biographies or mention of famous women. These comprise a treatise on marriage by Hamza Fathallah; a translation of a French history of ancient Egypt focusing on women, authored by Georges Paturet and translated by ‘Ali Jalal; a history of pre-Islamic women by Habib al-Zayyat al-Dimashqi; and a marriage and conduct manual for young men, by Husayn Fawzi. They all differ markedly from Fawwaz’s dictionary, in emphasis and subject choice. It is fascinating that several Arab male intellectuals of the late 19th century wrote on the ancient history of women in the region, but what kinds of messages did their works yield?

Imagined Communities: Women's History and the History of Gender in Mexico

2007 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 200-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Teresa. Fernández-Aceves
Keyword(s):  
Women's History ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women’S History

An agenda for women’s history in Ireland, 1500–1900: Part I: 1500–1800

1992 ◽  
Vol 28 (109) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret MacCurtain ◽  
Mary O’Dowd
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Women's History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Historical Inquiry ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women’S History

In the last twenty years women’s history has emerged as a major field of scholarly inquiry. An extensive literature has accumulated on the history of women in western Europe and North America, and the contribution which women have made to many different aspects of western society has been rediscovered. New areas of study have been developed as the gender differences in men’s and women’s lives have been recognised and researched. The expanding secondary literature has also led to a lively debate about the purpose, methodology and theory of women’s history. A central focus of discussion has been the relationship between women’s history and mainstream history. Initially research on the history of women tended to work within the parameters of traditional history: to be fitted into its ‘empty spaces’. But dissatisfaction with the male-centred and patriarchal nature of the predominant historical discourse has led women historians to seek out new methodologies and to argue that consideration of history from the perspective of women, as well as of men, is a major challenge to the whole nature of historical inquiry. As Gerda Lerner, a pioneer of women’s history in the United States, put it, women’s history challenges the traditional assumption that man is the measure of all that is significant, and that the activities pursued by men are by definition significant, while those pursued by women are subordinate in importance. It challenges the notion that civilization is that which men have created, defended, and advanced while women had babies and serviced families and to which they, occasionally and in a marginal way, ‘contributed’.

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