Feminist history reader / edited by Sue Morgan.

Rs.1995/-
TBH86/202

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-404) and index.

Introduction. Writing feminist history : theoretical debates and critical practices / Sue Morgan -- Part 1. Bringing the female subject into view. 1. The trouble with 'patriarchy' / Sheila Rowbotham, Sally Alexander and Barbara Taylor -- 2. Feminism and history / Judith M. Bennett -- 3. Golden age to separate spheres? : a review of the categories and chronology of English women's history / Amanda Vickery -- 4. Politics and culture in women's history : a symposium / Ellen Dubois, Mari Jo Buhle, Temma Kaplan, Gerda Lerner, and Carroll Smith-Rosenberg -- 5. Women's history and gender history : aspects of an international debate / Gisela Bock -- 6. History and the challenge of gender history / Penelope J. Corfield, June Purvis, and Amanda Weatherill -- Part 2. Deconstructing the female subject : feminist history and the linguistic turn. 7. Gender : a useful category of historical analysis / Joan Wallach Scott -- 8. Does sex have a history? / Denise Riley -- 9. Gender history/women's history : is feminist scholarship losing its critical edge? / Sonya Rose, Kathleen Canning, Anna Clark and Mariana Valverde -- 10. Gender as a postmodern category of paralysis / Joan Hoff, Susan Kingsley Kent and Caroline Ramazanoglu.

11. Postmodern blackness / bell hooks -- 12. Contingent foundations : feminism and the question of 'postmodernism' / Judith Butler -- Part 3. Searching for the subject : lesbian history. 13. Who hid lesbian history? / Lillian Faderman -- 14. Does it matter if they did it? / Sheila Jeffreys -- 15. Lesbian history : all theory and no facts or all facts and no theory? / Martha Vicinus -- 16. Queer : theorizing politics and history / Donna Penn -- 17. 'Lesbian-like' and the social history of lesbianisms / Judith M. Bennett -- 18. Toward a global history of same-sex sexuality / Leila J. Rupp -- Part 4. Centres of difference : decolonising subjects : rethinking boundaries. 19. Gender & race : the ampersand problem in feminist thought / Elizabeth V. Spelman -- 20. Challenging imperial feminism / Valerie Amos and Pratibha Parmar -- 21. An open letter to Mary Daly / Audre Lorde -- 22. 'What has happened here' : the politics of difference in women's history and feminist politics / Elsa Barkley Brown -- 23. Dead women tell no tales : issues of female subjectivity, subaltern agency and tradition in colonial and postcolonial writings on widow immolation in India / Ania Loomba -- 24. Gender and nation / Mrinalini Sinha-- 25. 'Introduction' to civilising subjects / Catherine Hall.

26. Rethinking boundaries : feminism and (inter)nationalism in early-twentieth-century India / Sanjam Ahluwalia and Antoinette Burton -- 27. Actions louder than words : the historical task of defining feminist consciousness in colonial West Africa / Cheryl Johnson-Odin -- 28. 'Under Western eyes' revisited : feminist solidarity through anticapitalist struggles / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- Afterword. Feminism's history / Joan W. Scott.