Product Description

This Reader gathers together key articles, from some of the very best writers in the field that have shaped the dynamic historiography of the past thirty years, and introduces students to the major shifts and turning points in the dialogue of feminism.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #314953 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-21
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

From the Back Cover

Over the past thirty-five years, feminist historians have challenged, debated and transformed the way history is, and should be, written. This self-critical dialogue between women has resulted in the development of a richly reflexive historiography. The Feminist History Reader provides a clearly structured introduction to some of the very best writers in the field of feminist history, gathering together key articles that have shaped this vibrant historiography and introducing students to the major theoretical shifts and turning points in feminist historical discourse.

The Reader is divided into four parts. Part I looks at early feminist historians’ writings following the move from reclaiming women’s past through to the development of gender history. Part II focuses on the interaction of feminist history with ‘the linguistic turn’, addressing the challenges of poststructuralism and the responses it provoked. Part III examines the work of lesbian historians and queer theorists in their interrogation of the heterocentrism of feminist history writing. The fourth part of the Reader explores the concept of ‘difference’ in the work of black feminists, postcolonial critics and Third World scholars and the ways in which this scholarship has sought to decolonise feminist history. Each reading has a critical introduction with suggested further reading for each part.

Including a specially written, comprehensive introduction by the editor, this is a wide-ranging guide to both past developments and future orientations in the theorising of feminist history and is essential reading for all students of history.

About the Author

Sue Morgan is Principal Lecturer in History and Head of the School of Cultural Studies at the University of Chichester. She is the author of A Passion for Purity: Ellice Hopkins and the politics of gender in the late-Victorian church (1999), co-editor of Masculinity and Spirituality in Victorian Culture (2000) and editor of Women, Religion and Feminism in Britain, 1750--1900 (2002).

Sheila Rowbotham, Sally Alexander and Barbara Taylor, Judith M. Bennett, Amanda Vickery, Ellen Dubois, Mari Jo Buhle, Temma Kaplan, Gerda Lerner and Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Gisela Bock, Penelope J. Corfield, June Purvis and Amanda Weatherill,  Joan W. Scott, Denise Riley, Sonya Rose, Kathleen Canning, Anna Clark and Mariana Valverde, Joan Hoff, Susan Kingsley Kent and Caroline Ramazanoglu, bell hooks, Judith Butler, Lillian Faderman, Sheila Jeffreys, Martha Vicinus, Donna Penn, Judith M. Bennett, Leila J. Rupp, Elizabeth V. Spelman, Valerie Amos and Pratibha Parmar, Audre Lorde, Elsa Barkley Brown, Ania Loomba, Mrinalini Sinha, Catherine Hall, Sanjam Ahluwalia and Antoinette Burton, Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Joan W. Scott

Customer Reviews

Thought provoking and accessible
As a student of Sue Morgan's who has used this work heavily for undergraduate studies I would just like to correct a slight error....this is a collection of essays on feminist/women's history issues by leading historians; NOT Keith Jenkins. (Who's works are also well worth reading though!) Sue Morgan's book is a fabulous accompaniament to any study of feminist history providing an excellent introduction to many of the leading theorists whilst also being accessible and thought provoking.