Writing women's history
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Writing women's history
Blackwell, 1992
- : hard
- : pbk
- Other Title
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Une Histoire des femmes est-elle possible?
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Translation of: Une Histoire des femmes est-elle possible?
Papers from a symposium suggested by Alain Paire and held in Saint-Maximin (Var) in July 1983
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Over the past two decades women's history has won for itself a place in academic institutions, in the media, and in public awareness. The question to be addressed is no longer whether there is such a thing as women's history, but rather how historians should go about writing this history. In this volume, a team of distinguished contributors set out to `measure the difficulties, extrinsic and above all intrinsic' in writing a history of women. They consider a variety of issues, such as that of sources - the caution needed with respect to written sources and their interpretation, and the importance of oral sources to our understanding of women's culture. They stress the need not simply to find out what has not been reported, but to ask why so much relating to women has been `forgotten'. A further important and controversial issue is the question of whether any history of women must begin with their bodies, and with the traditional roles attributed to women. The contributors express a desire to avoid portraying women as victims, but is the answer to concentrate on exceptional women who have acted alongside men in history, or to take a fresh look at the lives of the mass of women?
The book concludes that we must look at the relationship between the sexes, the differences between them and see this as a force in history.
Table of Contents
- 1. Twenty Years of Women's History in France: A Preface to the English Edition - Michelle Perrot 2. Introduction - Michelle Perrot 3. Method and Effects of Women's History - Arlette Farge (CNRS, Paris) 4. The Medievalist, Women and the Serial Approach - Christine Klapisch-Zuber (Ecole des Hautes-Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) 5. Chronology and Women's History - Yvonne Knibiehler (University of Provence) 6. The Oral Sources for Women's History - Sylvie Van de Casteele-Schweiter, Daniele Voldman ((CNRS, Universite Lumiere, Lyon
- CNRS, Paris) 7. The Unavoidable Detour or Must a History of Women Begin with the History of Their Bodies? - Catherine Fouquet (University of Aix-en-Provence) 8. Body, Remains, Text - Elisabeth Ravoux-Rallo, Anne Roche (University of Provence) 9. The Difference Between the Sexes, History, Anthropology and the Greek City - Pauline Schmitt Pantel (Centre de Recherches Louis Gernet, Paris) 10. Masculine/Feminine: on the Historiographical Use of Sexual Roles - Jacques Revel (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) 11. `A Sex in Mourning' and the History of Women in the nineteenth century - Alain Corbin (University of Paris I) 12. A Consideration of the Trousseau: A Feminine Culture? - Agnes Fine (University of Toulouse) 13. Feminist Singularity: A Critical Historiography of the History of Feminism in France - Genevieve Fraisse (CNRS, Paris) 14. Women, Power and History - Michelle Perrot (University of Paris VII, Jussieu).
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