| Feminism and History Contributor(s): Scott, Joan Wallach (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0198751699 ISBN-13: 9780198751694 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $19.94 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1996 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - History | Historiography |
| Dewey: 305.420 |
| LCCN: 95049602 |
| Lexile Measure: 1550 |
| Physical Information: 1.32" H x 5.44" W x 8.45" (1.47 lbs) 622 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This stimulating volume offers a cross-disciplinary selection of recent articles on feminist history. Dismissing essentialist accounts of a universal female identity, the contributors examine how ideas about sexual difference are shaped by specific socio-historical circumstances. How, for example, do issues such as race, class, gender, and sexuality impact on the experience of "women"? How are such categories defined in widely disparate cultures and time periods? Refreshingly open to non-western, as well as western, perspectives, Feminism and History addresses subjects from the experience of women in Colonial Asia to the ideology of sexual difference in Nazi Germany. Timely, provocative, and influential, these essays raise intriguing questions about the future direction of women's history. |