Writing Women’s History: International Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xli
Challenging Dichotomies: Perspectives on Women’s History....Pages 1-23
Demographic History and Its Perception of Women from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century....Pages 25-44
‘Uneven Developments’: Women’s History, Feminist History and Gender History in Great Britain....Pages 45-57
Finding Our Own Ways: Different Paths to Women’s History in the United States....Pages 59-77
Experience, Difference, Dominance and Voice in the Writing of Canadian Women’s History....Pages 79-106
Women’s Culture and Women’s Power: Issues in French Women’s History....Pages 107-133
Global Women’s History: Organising Principles and Cross-Cultural Understandings....Pages 135-149
Writing the History of Australian Women....Pages 151-169
The Development of Women’s History in Japan....Pages 171-179
Women’s History in India: An Historiographical Survey....Pages 181-209
Writing Women into History: The Nigerian Experience....Pages 211-220
Women’s History in Norway: A Short Survey....Pages 221-230
The State of Women’s History in Denmark....Pages 231-238
The State of Women’s History in Sweden: An Overview....Pages 239-258
Women’s History Behind the Dykes: Reflections on the Situation in the Netherlands....Pages 259-277
The State of Women’s History in Austria....Pages 279-290
Historical Research on Women in the Federal Republic of Germany....Pages 291-331
Historical Research on Women in the German Democratic Republic....Pages 333-353
Women’s History in Switzerland....Pages 355-367
Women’s History in Brazil: Production and Perspectives....Pages 369-380
Two Decades of Women’s History in Spain: A Reappraisal....Pages 381-415
Women’s History in Yugoslavia....Pages 417-421
The ‘History of Women’ in Greece....Pages 423-427
Women’s History in Ireland....Pages 429-441
Women’s History in Italy....Pages 443-456
Women, Gender, and Family in the Soviet Union and Central/East Europe: A Preliminary Bibliography....Pages 457-516
Back Matter....Pages 517-552