Gender and Change: Agency, Chronology and Periodisation: 2 (Gender and History Special Issues) - Softcover

 
9781405192279: Gender and Change: Agency, Chronology and Periodisation: 2 (Gender and History Special Issues)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1405192275 ISBN 13: 9781405192279
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

Synopsis

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

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About the Author

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).

From the Back Cover

Gender and Change: Agency, Chronology and Periodisation brings together a collection of essays that explore the ways in which gender analysis suggests alternative chronologies to conventional periodisation. Written by leading scholars in the fields of women's and gender history, the book marks the twentieth anniversary of the influential journal Gender & History. By investigating the ways in which gender history challenges received chronologies, these essays revive a critical goal of feminist history and reassess the relationship between gender, agency, and change. Among the issues examined are the ways in which gender functioned as a force of endurance or transition, and how gender may have been constitutive rather than merely reflective of either continuity or change.

This volume will have broad appeal to feminists and historians by engaging questions at the heart of the relationship between gender and history.

From the Inside Flap

Gender and Change: Agency, Chronology and Periodisation brings together a collection of essays that explore the ways in which gender analysis suggests alternative chronologies to conventional periodisation. Written by leading scholars in the fields of women's and gender history, the book marks the twentieth anniversary of the influential journal Gender & History. By investigating the ways in which gender history challenges received chronologies, these essays revive a critical goal of feminist history and reassess the relationship between gender, agency, and change. Among the issues examined are the ways in which gender functioned as a force of endurance or transition, and how gender may have been constitutive rather than merely reflective of either continuity or change.

This volume will have broad appeal to feminists and historians by engaging questions at the heart of the relationship between gender and history.

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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1405192275
ISBN 13 
9781405192279
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
306
Editor
Shepard Alexandra