Abstract
Under the impetus of new modes of historical research and the women's movements in America and Western Europe, gender and history have been conceptualized together so as to transform understandings of how events, social structures, and fundamental elements of social existence such as language, politics, and notions of identity are formulated in particular historical moments. Gender and history have been deployed as part of the larger post-structuralist and postmodern questioning of notions of objectivity in social science. Analysis of gender as the relational systems of power in which both men and women operate and to which both men and women contribute in history has revealed how submerged and seemingly disparate elements of society such as language, work, and identity are actually intimately intertwined. By focusing on gender as a relational category which is culturally produced, historians have been able to recuperate women's experience, historicize masculinity and femininity, and raise probing questions about traditional narratives and periodizations. Gender and history have been utilized to reshape knowledge of the past in ways which have effected contemporary political and social practices in a number of domains.
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