Women's History and Digital Media: Uniting Scholarship and Pedagogy

This book is an important contribution to the historiography of women's history as well as to women in the historical profession in the United States. Thirty years after the founding of the Coordinating Committee on Women in the Historical Profession (CCWHP) in 1969 (known as the Coordinating Committee of Women in History [CCWH] since 1995), twenty women who have been closely related to the organization trace interconnections among their private lives, political activities, and professional engagements. Editors Eileen Boris and Nupur Chaudhuri provide a short, but useful introduction to CCWH's intentions and achievements. Their aim in Voices of Women Historians is no less than to encourage women to enter the historical profession, oppose discrimination of women in the pro-fession, and promote research and instruction in women's history. Hostile forces were overcome gradually, and today the CCWH is an important national organization, able to offer prizes and support to graduate students, untenured faculty, and independent scholars. While successfully advancing research in women's and gender history, the CCWH continues to address such present day problems as planned closures of feminist research centers, welfare reform, and affirmative action. Cooperation in many fields has supplanted the originally cold relationship to the American Historical Association (AHA), and historians of women have occupied--and still occupy--central offices in the AHA.

Women Writing History:Looking Backward and Forward Durba Ghosh (bio) Kathleen Canning . Gender History in Practice: Historical Perspectives on Bodies, Class, and Citizenship (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006). 224 pp. ISBN 0-8014-8971-6 (pb). Kate Davies . Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren: The Revolutionary Atlantic and the Politics of Gender (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). 336 pp. ISBN 0-19-928110-6 (cl). Julie des Jardins . Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880–1945 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003). 400 pp. ISBN 0-8078-5475-1 (pb). Devoney Looser . British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670–1820 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). 288 pp. ISBN 0-8018-7905-1 (cl). Bonnie G. Smith , ed. Women's History in Global Perspective, 3 vols. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004–2005). 960 pp. Volume 1: ISBN 0-252-02931-3 (cl); 0-252-07183-2 (pb). Volume 2: ISBN 0-252-02997-6 (cl); 0-252-07249-9 (pb). Volume 3: ISBN 0-252-02990-9 (cl); 0-252-07234-0 (pb). Reginald Zelnik . Perils of Pankratova: Some Stories from the Annals of Soviet Historiography (Seattle: Donald Treadgold Studies on Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, 2005). 152 pp. ISBN 0-252-07234-0 (pb). Devoney Looser's British Women Writers begins with a summary of "herstory," a mode of writing history that grew out of Second Wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Bridging a political commitment between feminist activism and feminist scholarship, "herstorians" attempted to produce histories written by women about women (1–3). A generation later, the herstory movement may seem outdated, but it remains a reference point for explaining the emergence of the particular books in this review. Several of these books challenge this particular chronology of the emergence of herstory; Kate Davies, Julie des Jardins, and Devoney Looser [End Page 162] analyze women who felt themselves to be historians in periods when the writing of history by women was unusual. Reginald Zelnik's account of the life and work of Anna Pankratova treats her more as a historian and a committed Communist Party member than as a woman. All, though, reframe the project of herstory by arguing that women were always in one way or another engaged in writing history—collecting records, making arguments, and constructing narratives—well before they were recognized as historically significant and welcomed into the historical profession in the late twentieth century. While five of the titles reviewed focus on women writers of history in American and European contexts, the three volumes of Bonnie Smith's Women's History in Global Perspective, commissioned by the American Historical Association's Committee on Women Historians, chronicle another aspect of the early-twenty-first-century emergence of women's history as a field within the profession. The three volumes have distinct goals and ambitions, but they share a political commitment to integrate women's and gender history into the subdiscipline of global and world history, which has largely resisted critical feminist analysis. The essays in this series are synthetic accounts, written by distinguished feminist historians who address history writing and history making by women in both Western and non-Western communities. This review is organized somewhat chronologically and, in the spirit of dialogue, in pairs in order to read one scholar's methodologies against another's. Although the books themselves are wide ranging—three are academic monographs, one is a revised set of previously published essays, one a posthumously published book, and the final three a set of synthetic essays—each offers us rich possibilities for how one might write the history of women at particular sites and moments. Looser's British Women Writers takes up a broad timespan and a broader range of authors than does Davies's Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren, which examines the correspondence of two women. Nonetheless, they have some significant overlaps, both in argument and in material. They both examine Catharine Macaulay, who was widely known in late-eighteenth-century Anglo-American circles. While Looser situates Macaulay among the other figures in her study, Davies examines...

ABSTRACTThis piece addresses the key questions posed by Chen Yan and Karen Offen in their joint position paper on the current state of women's history and its place at the cutting edge of historical practice. Having made the case that women's and gender history has had a significant and multi-level impact (empirical, conceptual, methodological and theoretical) on that practice, my article observes that acknowledgement of this is still very limited among those not centrally involved in the field. It notes the tensions between the aspiration both to identify and pursue women's and gender history as discrete fields of scholarly endeavour and the aspiration for women and gender to be treated as topics/categories which should be constitutive of all historical inquiry. It goes on to consider the relationship of women's history to gender history, to post-colonial and cross-cultural scholarship, and to recent work in spatial histories. It argues that in the first case the two approaches are mutually reinforcing, and that in the other two cases women's and gender history has been at the leading edge of these developing fields and is uniquely positioned to make innovative contributions there. The capacity of women's and gender history to continue as a leading edge area of historical practice will be grounded in its ongoing commitment to reflexivity about problems and limitations in the field, and to sustaining its key insights into the links between the personal and the structural, the global and the local, and the material and the cultural.

address here the issue of gendering national historiographies in Canada by considering national narratives and counter narratives and the efforts to integrate more effectively gender, class, race, and sex in Canadian his- tory. I will accentuate the positive, but then comment on difficulties. Over the last thirty-five years, Canadian feminist historians—whether they have identified primarily as a women's or gender historian or some other type of historian—have been critical to the writing and teaching of far more inclusive, if uneven and contested, Canadian histories. Certainly, in contrast to Central Eastern Europe and Mexico, women's and, more recently, gender history in Canada has enjoyed a degree of on- going institutional support. There is an established and growing literature in Canadian women's history and a rapidly growing number of gendered histories—which include many studies that do not fit a homogenizing postmodern gender history label but are grounded analyses of gender relations and power within different social arenas. Specific figures are not available but qualitatively speaking, there are Canadian feminist historians in history departments, women and/or gender studies, and Canadian stud- ies programs across the country. There is no specific journal in Canadian women's and gender history but the established Canadian women's studies journals and history journals are receptive venues for publication. Faculty teach specific courses in these fields and integrate women and gender into their surveys and other courses. The Canadian Committee on Women's History (CCWH, founded in 1975) is the most successful of the societies affiliated with the Canadian Historical Association. Although the most prestigious awards and endowed chairs still go mostly to men, and men still outnumber women at the full professor rank, the greater influence of feminist historians within the wider profession is evident in their increased presence as journal and book series editors, the many scholarly prizes, the strong presence of women's and gender history on conference programs, and the growing number of their students who are in full-time positions. One can pursue a career in Canadian women's and gender history but most scholars simultaneously train in various fields. We are acutely aware of U.S. scholarly domination and that Canada is a rich but not particularly powerful country, and suspect that many of our U.S. colleagues regard Canada, apart from Quebec, as a similar but less interesting place than their own. My involvement in a transnational project on Italian women

Dialogue From time to time, the "Dialogue" section of the JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY will feature complete sessions from historical conferences. Our first one appears below. These articles were originally presented at the session on History and Theory at the Eighth Berkshire Conference on the History of Women at Douglass CoUege on June 8, 1990. A future issue will cover protective legislation in various nations, with articles from both the "Eighth Berks" and the 1990 Social Science History Conference. Critical Theory and the History of Women: What's At Stake in Deconstructing Women's History Louise M. Newman The challenge for those of us who are convinced both that real historical women do exist and share certain experiences and that deconstruction ... makes theoretical sense is to work out some way to think both women and "woman." Mary Poovey, 19881 This paper explores a shift away from women's history to a new and different practice, gender history, and the tensions that arise as feminist scholars adapt methodologies from post-structuraUst theorists such as Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. In part, I hope to forge a bridge between the work of historians of women and historians of gender. I would Uke to see the field move beyond the impasse toward which it seems to be heading—an impasse sometimes characterized by academic name-calling, with historians of women accusing historians of gender of poUtical irrelevancy and historians of gender calling historians of women theoreticaUy naive. The fields of women's history and gender history are at a crucial juncture in their development. The conflict is partly over what categories of analysis should be used and how power or human agency should be conceptualized. Historians of women use the terms "experience," "identity ," and "woman" and invest individuals—women and men—with the power to alter material conditions of oppression. Historians of gender, on the other hand, offer as substitutes the terms "representation," "discourse ," and "gender." In place of experience, historians of gender speak of representations that are either present or absent in texts; in place of © 1991 Journal of Women's History, Vol. 2 No. 3 (Winter) 1991 DIALOGUE: LOUISE M. NEWMAN 59 identities, they speak of discourses constructing subjects; and in place of women's experiences, they speak of "gender" as that which gives meaning to sexual differences. For many theorists influenced by post-structuraUsm, oppression and power reside in the operations of language, although it is not always clear how subjects may resist the oppression produced by the operations of language. As Mary Poovey explains, for those who take post-structuralism to its logical conclusion, the term " 'woman' is only a social construct that has no basis in nature... a term whose definition depends upon the context in which it is bang discussed and not upon some set of sexual organs or social experiences."2 Historians of women reject this way of using the term "woman." They insist on retaining a focus on the coUective and individual experiences of flesh-and-blood women. Such historians are skeptical of the overdetermining role or power which some post-structuraUsts attribute to language. They remain committed to maintaining power for people to resist or escape from what oppresses them.3 Thus, for the purposes of this discussion, I wül speak of women's history as a practice concerned with why specific groups of women share certain experiences, while gender history provides analyses concerning how gender operates through specific cultural forms. I am using "gender" here to mean the set of meanings constructing sexual difference. When defined this way, gender may, at first glance, seem to have nothing to do with the experiences of men and women, but, as I argue throughout, understanding how gender works to construct the meanings associated with "male," "female," "masculine," "feminine," "womanly," "manly," etc., is instrumental to understanding how and why specific groups of women share certain experiences. Although I am distinguishing between these two practices, women's and gender history, ultimately I beUeve that the two practices do and should converge: writing meaningful accounts of women's (and men's) experiences, I shaU argue, cannot be accompUshed without also examining the ways in which cultural meanings...

Thepurpose of this essay is not to provide a review of the extensive literature on women's history, gender history, or feminist scholarship, but to reflect on the implications that these three vantage points have for the practice of writing German history. The framework for these reflections is the charge of the conference at which an earlier version of this paper was presented, namely, to consider the interdisciplinary, theoretical, and methodological challenges to historiography raised by “postmodernism.” These challenges are roughly similar for all national historiographies, though Germany's historians, it could be argued, have distinguished themselves by their especially intense focus on state institutions, national events, aggregated socioeconomic structures, large organizations, and the theories and methods appropriate to these concerns. Such foci stand in particular danger of being dissolved by alternate historiographic interests, like feminist, women's, and gender history. When the center no longer holds, that is the “postmodern” condition; their part in dissolving the center is what links feminist, women's, and gender history to “postmodernism.” Rather than rehearsing specific examples of how, say, women's history has challenged the received picture of German history, and thereby implicitly to suggest methods of damage control, this essay instead attempts to discuss some of the broader theoretical and methodological issues that feminist scholarship poses to historians and to do so within the context of the “postmodern.” References to the specific German context are mostly in the footnotes.

Imagined Communities:Women's History and the History of Gender in Mexico María Teresa Fernández-Aceves (bio) The purpose of this paper is not to discuss all, or a large part, of what has been done in the Mexican women and gender historiography since the mid-1970s. My aim instead is to pinpoint the trends in the national academic culture, the most important developments of women's and gender history, mainly in Mexico, recent publications, research policies, and finally, the difficulties in doing transnational history. In twentieth-century Mexico, trained historians from different academic settings—public and private universities as well as federal and state research centers—have applied diverse perspectives from Marxism to the diverse approaches of the Annales School. In the late 1960s, Luis González y González proposed the development of regional history and microhistory in his study of San José de Gracia, a rural town in western Mexico.1 For González, microhistory referred to the local historical experience that was representative of, or more importantly a contrasting variant of, national narratives. This perspective stimulated and consolidated regional studies of different states, localities, and the revolutionary experience. Recently, Mexican historiography has moved from structural to cultural analyses incorporating the new French cultural history, promoted by Roger Chartier and the proposals of Michel de Certeau about everyday life; the Italian school of microhistory led by Carlo Ginzburg; the German historical sociology of Norbert Elias; and Benedict Anderson's study of nations and nationalism in Imagined Communities.2 However, social history, with its emphasis on structure and class analysis, remains important. Most Mexican historiography, however, has neglected women and gender. Those who do this work still comprise a small academic ghetto. During the second feminist wave in the 1970s and 1980s some feminist scholars emerged to work in periods from the colony through the Revolution of 1910. They have looked at issues of marriage, sexuality, labor, education, and politics. As elsewhere in the first stages of women's history, Mexican historians have concentrated on demonstrating that women have been historical actors and have raised questions about the traditional periodization that leaves them out.3 In 1987, Julia Tuñón Pablos wrote Mujeres en la historia de México, the first comprehensive and synthetic narrative that incorporated women from Prehispanic times to the twentieth century.4 By using a traditional periodization, Tuñón plotted the different roles ascribed to women and the changing feminine representations and practices. At [End Page 200] the same time, Carmen Ramos Escandón edited Presencia y transparencia: la mujer en la historia de México, another global vision of women in Mexican history. General bibliographies, like El álbum de la mujer, were compiled. In the 1980s, more extensive studies examined convents, sexuality, and education in colonial Mexico; women's culture, roles, and representations; female labor force participation; women and the law in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; women and the Mexican Revolution; and the Mexican woman suffrage campaigns in the 1920s and 1950s.5 In the 1990s, as elsewhere, there has been a move from women's history to gender history. However, a gender perspective in Mexico is still identified mostly with women. Women's and gender history in Mexico have been recognized as historical fields, but the growing literature has not been incorporated into other, more mainstream historical approaches. Most of the time, these studies are read only by specialists on gender. In contrast to the Mexican and feminist historians, Mexicanist scholars from the Anglo world have drawn more upon the linguistic turn.6 Thus, their work is more embedded in feminist theory and poststructuralism. In the United States, these fields have not only been recognized but also incorporated into the academy. Unlike North American and British feminist scholars, Mexican feminist scholars tend to combine French social history perspectives—private life, everyday life, sexuality, and work—with Anglophone approaches to cultural history and discourse analysis. They cite Michèlle Perrot's, Georges Duby's, and Phillipe Ariès's multivolume works on women's and private life histories; French cultural history; Mexican and Italian microhistory; Norbert Elias's configuration and civilizing processes concepts; and E. P. Thompson's history from...

This chapter traces the birth of professional women's and gender history in the United States amid the broader social, political, and intellectual currents of the 1960s. In particular, it examines four conceptual “turns” in women's and gender history, along with their influence on the practices of American historians and the study of women: the emergence of women's history as an intellectual pursuit; the shift in focus from women to gender; the interrelationships among gender analysis, poststructuralism, and cultural studies; and the increasing importance of transnational history. The chapter explains how writing women into history arose as a political project riding the crest of second-wave feminism and how the shift to gender history helped move women's history “from periphery to center” in the field of U.S. history.

Editors' Note Jean Allman and Antoinette Burton In July 2004, the Journal of Women's History moved to the University of Illinois from Ohio State University, where it had been edited by Leila Rupp—and recently co-edited by Donna Guy—for eight prosperous years. Thanks to the good offices of everyone at OSU, the transition has been a smooth one. We are grateful to Susan Hartmann, Birgitte Søland, and Anne Collinson for hosting us in Columbus as we prepared to move the files and talked through the joys and challenges of journal work. We are especially indebted to OSU Managing Editor Stephanie Gilmore, who drove with us back to Champaign-Urbana and helped unload the boxes from our van to the new JWH offices in 318 Gregory Hall. With characteristic energy and generosity, Stephanie carefully walked us through what we have come to know as "the life of a manuscript." Words cannot express our gratitude. Her eye for detail and her willingness to hold our hands for those first dizzying days made a world of difference in how quickly we were able to get up and running. Last but certainly not least, as we take up our new responsibilities, we want to thank Leila Rupp, whose sage advice on matters large and small continues to help us as we adjust to the rhythms of production day to day. Leila's tenure as journal editor has profoundly shaped the directions of women's and gender history over the last decade. As the new joint editors, we hope to build upon her impressive legacy by continuing the journal's tradition of innovative scholarship that at once showcases state-of-the-art research and points to new avenues of historical inquiry. The changes that have occurred over the past several months, in the journal offices and in its staff, are reflected in this issue's opening pages, where we introduce our new local editorial staff and acknowledge our gratitude to the journal's founding editor, Christie Farnham, and its editors emeritae: Christie Farnham, Joan Hoff, Leila Rupp, and Donna Guy. New on these pages is a listing of the members of the journal's founding board of associate editors in 1989—many of whom continued to serve for many years. Because the journal constitutes a living archive of what women's and gender history has been, as well as a testament to its indispensable place in the historical profession at large, we consider it important to acknowledge the foundational role of these scholars. Finally, readers will find the new listing for the journal's Editorial Board. In the past, there were listings for a U.S. Board of Associate Editors and an International Board of Advisers. Because we are dedicated to expanding the journal's transnational breadth and because email and cyber technology now make it possible for an article to wing its way from Singapore to [End Page 6] Cape Town in two seconds, we have, in line with the journal's new constitution, done away with the distinction between U.S. and International, and have consolidated membership into one board. For those who have rotated off the board and to all international advisers, we wish to express our profound gratitude for your hard work and ongoing support for the journal. To those now joining us—welcome! The nature of journal transitions is such that we step into our new editorial roles as significant beneficiaries of the hard work of our predecessors. We are delighted to introduce this issue, whose articles and reviews began life almost a year ago under the careful supervision of Leila and Donna. We are especially pleased to open with the section "New Directions in African American Women's History," which features three essays emphasizing the complex tangle of social context and individual agency that produces historical change—large and small. Laila Haidarali's article, "Polishing Brown Diamonds," charts the emergence of "Brownskin" models in the post-World War II United States, arguing that they produced a "racial corrective" to dominant visual discourses by offering new, and newly professionalized, images of the African American working woman in the postwar economy. Haidarali highlights the roles of both...

Remembering Alton Parker Hornsby, Jr., 1940–2017

In the thirty years since the publication of ‘An agenda for women's history in Ireland’, the study of women's and gender history has been transformed. The introduction to this special issue contextualises the ‘Agenda’ within this evolving landscape, underlining the significant role it played in stimulating scholarship by outlining some of the major developments in the field since 1992. The introduction also points to developments that the authors, Margaret MacCurtain, Mary O'Dowd and Maria Luddy, could not have foreseen when writing the ‘Agenda’, such as rapid technological advances and the possibilities they have opened up for scholars of women and gender in Irish history. By tracing these developments, the introduction serves as a gateway into the articles that form the special issue: contributions that demonstrate the wide-reaching and multifaceted impact of the ‘Agenda’ and the three pioneering scholars who authored it, and that provide thought-provoking analysis of existing and future scholarship in the field.

IT IS A RARE ISSUE OF THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION OR OF THE newsletters of the American Studies Association, the Organization of American Historians, and the American Historical Association that does not contain some reference to multiculturalism. Within academia it has been hailed as an exciting breakthrough in contemporary pedagogy, a powerful antidote to abuses of the past, and a potent weapon in the assault on the narrowness of tradition. Yet, I admit that I am greatly disturbed by much of what I hear and read about multiculturalism, and I find myself frequently at odds with those around me who are so excited by its prospects. It is ironic for me to be cast in the position of critic here. My entire scholarly career has been oriented toward the study of race, ethnicity, and gender. From my first days in graduate school, I knew that I wanted to concentrate on immigration and ethnic history because I found this the most exciting and vital area for inquiry. I have published in the fields of Jewish, Irish, and black history in America as well as women's history, and I also teach these topics. So, my problems with multiculturalism may seem perplexing. This actually leads me to my first point. I am not sure exactly what multiculturalism is. Is it, as a pedagogic mandate, a statement that all courses, regardless of content, include material on a variety -a multitude

Reviewed by: All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack and a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles, and: On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed Catherine Clinton All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack and a Black Family Keepsake. Tiya Miles. New York: Random House, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-9848-5499-5, 416 pp., cloth, $28.00 On Juneteenth. Annette Gordon-Reed. New York: W. W. Norton, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-63149-883-1, 152 pp., cloth, $15.95. A few years ago I began labeling my graduate course "Civil War and Emancipation," in recognition of the turn within the academy, with scholarship rippling outward into a more diverse audience and perhaps trickling down into textbooks and curriculum. A slow, deliberate change from the days of the Civil War centennial—as the 1960s was an era of racialized conflagrations, and a national commemoration fraught with competing, explosive agendas. By the Civil War sesquicentennial in 2011–15, the destruction of slavery was acknowledged as a major war aim of the federal government. During the past half century, historians of nineteenthcentury America escalated the debates over war's cause and effect to include the significance of Emancipation and the struggles during and after Reconstruction by former slaves and Black Americans seeking rights and citizenship. This new era has yielded a bounty of important, prizewinning work. A large contingent of Civil War scholars are engaged in including Black perspectives and African American resources to reshape the era. During this same transformative turn, women have come to the forefront, both as scholars of the slave experience and as a dynamic topic within Black history: African American women in slavery and freedom. When I dipped my toe into the Civil War field during the 1980s after being immersed in African American history during the '60s and women's history during the '70s, little did I imagine the creative and interventionist ways these fields might meet to create an era of intersectionalism. However, there were clearly visionary scholars at work, paving the way. These two new books by Tiya Miles and Annette Gordon-Reed herald an era of metanarrative, whereby prizewinning authors challenge the fallacy of objectivism. Their bracing, interrogative [End Page 217] accounts allow readers to experience the full powers of their intellects and narrative gifts. Surely the bevy of prizes won in 2021 by Thavolia Glymph's The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation (from the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Society of Civil War Historians, and the Southern Association for Women Historians, among others) signals the way Civil War studies is seeking important new terrain to bring this burgeoning field into alignment with the twenty-first century. Tiya Miles's new volume, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack and a Black Family Keepsake, follows a productive parade of impressive books, including a novel (The Cherokee Rose). Miles's historical talents were evident from her first monograph, Ties That Bound (winning the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize in 2006) to her 2017 Dawn of Detroit (awarded the Frederick Douglass Prize), receiving a MacArthur Fellowship (2011) along the way. Her scholarship has always been praised as meticulous, and she earns accolades for her prose style, which is characterized as both "luminous" and "accessible." In the story of Ashley's sack, we are given layered lessons about the historian's craft. How does one approach an object? What are the objectives for the story to be told? What is the value of speculation? How does the empowerment of context supply content when no particulars are evident, when no evidence is forthcoming? Miles patiently pieces together her story as brilliantly and creatively as the recovered sack deposited at Middleton plantation. It is not just an object for a repository, but the beginning of a journey for Miles—who takes the family history of the ancestor Rose, who lovingly prepared this cotton bag for her nine-year-old daughter Ashley's sale and departure. Ripped away from her home, from her family—with a tattered dress, three handfuls of nuts, a lock of her mother's hair, and the...

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Acknowledgments Writing Women's History across Time and SpacePamela S. Nadell and Kate HaulmanImagining New Histories 1. Women's Past and the Currents of U.S. History Kathy Peiss 2. New Directions in Russian and Soviet Women's History Barbara Alpern Engel 3. Putting the Political in EconomyClaire Robertson 4. Sexual Crises, Women's History, and the History of Sexuality in Europe Anna ClarkEngendering National and Nationalist Projects 5. Gender and the Politics of Exceptionalism in the Writing of British Women's History Arianne Chernock 6. Amateur Historians, the Woman Question, and the Production of Modern History in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Egypt Lisa Pollard 7. Women's and Gender History in Modern India: Researching the Past, Reflecting on the Present Mytheli SreenivasExploring Transnational Approaches 8. World History Meets History of Masculinity in Latin American StudiesUlrike Strasser and Heidi Tinsman 9. Connecting Histories of Gender, Health, and U.S.-China Relations Cristina Zaccarini 10. A Happier Marriage? Feminist History Takes the Transnational TurnJocelyn Olcott About the Contributors Index