Current Issues in Women's History

International Conference on Women's History, Arina Angerman, Geerte Binnema, Annemieke Keunen, Vefie Poels, Jacqueline Zirkzee

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9781136248801
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Social History
• Index: History

This lively collection of essays, originally published in 1989, illustrated recent developments in the area, with chapters by contributors from many different countries and disciplines.

Asking new questions and using sources in a challenging way, the contributors reflect 1980s debates about politics and academic research in women's studies. They cover a wide range of topics, dealing for example with opportunities and obstacles for women within male-defined power-structures and institutions such as science, religious communities, and ancient Roman industry. They discuss feminists and feminist movements, analyse the utterances of women and men in medieval literature and in defamation cases, and give insights into the ways femaleness and femininity are given meaning. The essays on theory deal with such important issues as women's historiography, and androcentrism and ethnocentrism in history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Politics, identification and the writing of women’s history
• Maria Winkelmann: the clash between guild traditions and professional science
• Female education and spiritual life: the case of ministers’ daughters
• Brick stamps and women’s economic opportunities in Imperial Rome
• Witchcraft in the Northern Netherlands
• Emancipated integration or integrated emancipation: the case of post-revolutionary Yugoslavia
• Female culture, pacifism and feminism: Women Strike for Peace
• Gossipy letters in the context of international feminism
• The origins of feminism in Egypt
• Female aspiration and male ideology: school-teaching in nineteenth-century New England
• ‘Embittered, sexless or homosexual’: attacks on spinster teachers 1918-39
• Women’s psychological disorders in seventeenth-century Britain
• Pygmalion, or the image of women in medieval literature
• Whores and gossips: sexual reputation in London 1770-1825
• On the origins of Dutch women’s historiography: three portraits (1840-1970)
• A paradigm of androcentric historiography: Michelet’s Lesfemmes de la Révolution
• Ethnocentrism in the study of Algerian women
• Notes on contributors with selected bibliographies
• Index