Sceptical History

Description

A highly original work in history and theory, this survey considers major themes including identity, class and sexual difference, and weaves them into debates on the nature and point of history. Sceptical History arrives at new ways of doing history that consider non-Western history and feminist approaches. Using a wide range of historical and cultural contexts, the study draws extensively on feminist scholarship, both feminist history and postcolonial feminism.

Contents

Preliminaries 1. History, Postmodern Critique and Alternative Visions 2. Reinventing the Wheel: Presenting the Past 3. Negotiating ‘Difference’ 4. The ‘Positioned’ Subject 5. Reflections. Notes. Bibliography

Author Bio

Hélène Bowen Raddeker is Senior Lecturer in the School of History, University of New South Wales, Sydney. The author of Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan (Routledge, 1997), she has published in Asian Studies and Feminist Studies and other journals in Australia, Europe and the U.S.A.

Related Subjects

1. Asian History
2. History: Theory, Method & Historiography
3. Women's & Gender History