Writing women's history since the Renaissance /
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| Author / Creator: | Spongberg, Mary, 1965- |
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| Imprint: | Disability, counselling, and psychotherapyNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. |
| Description: | xii, 308 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4815853 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: 'Hardly Any Women At All?'? Women Writers and the Gender of History
- Gendering History
- Gender and Genre
- Women Writing History
- Part I. Men's History
- 1. The Classical Inheritance
- The Classical Heritage
- Ancient Historians and the Gendering of History
- 2. 'All Histories Are Against You': Women and the History Men
- Reforming History
- The Historical Defence of Women
- The Science of History
- Enlightened History?
- The Romantic Reaction
- The History Men
- Part II. Women's History
- 3. 'Above Their Sex'? Women's History 'before' Feminism
- History as Feminine Pedagogy
- Before Feminism
- Reforming Women
- Local Heroines
- The History Women
- 4. History's Romantic Heroines: Women's History and Revolutionary Feminism
- The Salon
- Revolutionary Feminism
- Foreign Correspondence
- Romantic Revolutionaries
- The Staelian Legacy
- 5. 'Heroines of Domestic Life': Women's History and Female Biography
- Domestic Woman
- Domestic Heroism
- Female Biography
- History as Domestic Science
- Feminising History
- 6. Women's History and the 'Woman Question'
- Women's History and Feminist Consciousness
- Before Suffrage
- First-wave Feminism
- First-wave Feminism and the Social Sciences
- The Social Sciences and Social History
- 7. Amateurs or Professionals? Women's History in the Academy
- Women and Higher Education
- The European Experience
- The Impact of War
- Women's History in the Academy
- History and the Feminine Mystique
- 8. 'Clio's Consciousness Raised'? Women's Liberation and Women's History
- The Emergence of Women's Liberation
- Radical History?
- Women's Historians and Women's Liberation
- Clio's Consciousness Raised?
- 9. Liberating Women's History? Feminism and the Reconstruction of History
- Radical Feminism and the History of Women's Oppression
- Victim History?
- The Culture of True Womanhood
- The Class Challenge
- Women's Culture and Cultural Feminism
- 10. Surpassing the History of Men: Women's History and Lesbian History
- Sex Wars
- Women's History and the Lesbian Continuum
- The Elusive Qustion of Female Friendship
- Lesbian Sex and Sexology
- Sex Radical, Butch/Femme
- Doing 'It'?
- Making Things Perfectly Queer?
- Conclusion: Dealing with Difference
- All the Women Were White?
- Dealing with Difference
- Poststructuralist Postscript
- Notes
- Index
