Introduction 1. Women’s History at the Cutting Edge: a joint paper in two voices 2. The Dangers of Complacency: women’s history/gender history in Canada in the twenty-first century 3. The History of Women and Gender: French perspectives on the last twenty years 4. From Invisibility to Marginality: women’s history in Romania 5. Women’s History at the Cutting Edge in Japan 6. Women’s and Gender Studies of the Russian Past: two contemporary trends 7. ‘A Glass Half Full’? Women’s history in the UK 8. Women’s History in Many Places: reflections on plurality, diversity and polyversality
Biography
Karen Offen is a Historian and Independent Scholar, affiliated as a Senior Scholar with The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, USA. She publishes on the history of modern Europe, especially France and its global influence, from a women's and gender history perspective. She holds a PhD from Stanford University, USA.
Chen Yan is a Professor and the Vice-Chair of the History Department at Fudan University, Shanghai, China and Co-Director of the UM-Fudan Joint Institute for Gender Studies. She specializes in the modern history of China, especially women's and gender history.
