168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
168 Pages
by
Routledge
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Why are most famous historians men? How have women changed the writing of history over the last decades? What lives and stories have been hidden from history?
Until recently history was predominantly the domain of men. That men were the authors of our past meant that in many cases only half of the story was told. In the second half of the twentieth century, however, the picture changed. Women,... Read more
Acknowledgements 1. Woman as a force in history. 2. A moment in history 1969-75. 3. Liberating women's history 1976-83. 4. Gender, a useful category of historical analysis 1983-7. 5. A multiple vision 1988-9. 6. Writing inside the kaleidoscope 1990-3. 7. The shape of an historical community 1993-9. Bibliography. Index.
Biography
Johanna Alberti is Associate Lecturer with the Open University. She is the author of Beyond Suffrage (1989) and Eleanor Rathbone.
