This stimulating volume presents an overview of key gender theories and debates, tracing the development of gender as an analytic category in the writing of history. Covering a broad timespan, Kent makes the origins, concepts and methods of gender history accessible to students, showing how they can use genderin their own historical studies. SUSAN KINGSLEY KENT Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Colorado, USA. She is the author of 'Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914, Gender and Power in Britain, 1660-1990 'and 'Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Britain, 1918-1931'. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Introduction: History, Theory, Gender: What AreThey? Who Has Them? - PART I: THEORIZING GENDER - Woman: From the Deficient Male to the Incommensurate Female - The Feminist Challenge: 'One is Not Born a Woman' - PART II: GENDER HISTORY - The Road to 'Gender' - Theorizing Gender and Power - PART III: DOING IT - Writing Gender History: War and Feminism, 1914-1930 - Conclusion: Where We Go From Here - Glossary - Notes - Further Reading - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-29224-6
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 160
- Fecha Publicación: 28/10/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés