Gender and Change
Agency, Chronology and Periodisation
Published on 22. May 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-4051-9227-9 (ISBN)
Description
Through a collection of essays by leading scholars on women's history and gender history, Gender and Change: Agency, Chronology and Periodisation questions conventional chronologies while reassessing the relationship between gender, agency, continuity and change.
* Celebrates 20 years of the publication of the journal Gender & History
* Reflects the extent to which gender analysis suggests alternatives to conventional periodisation. For example, whether the European Renaissance can be classified as the same period of great cultural advance when viewed from the perspective of women
* Offers innovative historiographical and theoretical reflection on approaches to gender, agency, and change
Reviews / Votes
"This edited collection of essays, published to mark the 20th anniversary of the journal Gender and History, is a welcome and timely reminder of the way in which gender and women's history has successfully challenged historical orthodoxies . . .This book presents an at times quite staggering breath of historical coverage and debate bringing to light new and diverse histories of women and demanding that historians of women and gender don't become complacent." (Shepard's Gender and Change, 14 October 2010)More details
Product info
Paperback
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
446 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-9227-9 (9781405192279)
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Alexandra Shepard teaches Early Modern History at the University of Glasgow. She is the author of several articles on the history of masculinity and Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England (2003).
Garthine Walker is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Cardiff. She has published on various aspects of gender and crime and is the author of Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England (2003).
Content
Notes on Contributors
1. Gender, Change and Periodisation
2. Somatic Styles of the Early Middle Ages (c. 600-900)
3. Gendering the History of Women's Healthcare
4. The Gender of Europe's Commercial Economy, 1200-1700
5. Do Women Need the Renaissance?
6. Gender as a Question of Historical Analysis
7. Change and the Corporeal in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Gender History: Or, Can Cultural History Be Rigorous?
8. Agency, Periodisation and Change in the Gender and Women's History of Colonial India
9. The Unseamed Picture: Conflicting Narratives of Women in the Modern European Past
10. The Gendered Genealogy of Political Religions Theory
11. Forgetting the Past
Index