The Feminist History Reader

Introduction  Part 1: Bringing the Female Subject into View  1. The Trouble With Patriarchy  2. Feminism and History  3. Golden Age to Separate Spheres? A Review of the Categories and Chronology of English Women's History  4. Politics and Culture in Women's History: A Symposium  5. Women's History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate  6. History and the Challenge of Gender History  Part 2: Deconstructing the Female Subject: Feminist History and 'The Linguistic Turn'  7. Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis  8. Does Sex Have a History?  9. Gender History/Women's History: Is Feminist Scholarship Losing its Critical Edge?  10. Gender as a Postmodern Category of Paralysis  11. Postmodern Blackness  12. Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of 'Postmodernism'  Part 3: Searching for the Subject: Lesbian History  13. Who Hid Lesbian History?  14. Does it Matter if They Did it?  15. Lesbian History: All Theory and No Facts or All Facts and NoTheory?  16. Queer: Theorizing Politics and History  17. 'Lesbian-Like' and the Social History of Lesbianisms  18. Toward a Global History of Same-Sex Sexuality  Part 4: Centres of Difference: Decolonising Subjects: Rethinking Boundaries  19. Gender and Race: The Ampersand Problem in Feminist Thought  20. Challenging Imperial Feminism  21. An Open Letter to Mary Daly  22. 'What Has Happened Here?': The Politics of Difference in Women's History and Feminist Politics  23. Dead Women Tell No Tales: Issues of Female Subjectivity, Subaltern Agency and Tradition in Colonial and Postcolonial Writings on Widow Immolation in India  24. Gender and Nation  25. 'Introduction' to Civilizing Subjects  26. Rethinking Boundaries: Feminism and (Inter)Nationalism in Early-Twentieth-Century India  27. Actions Louder than Words: The Historical Task of Defining Feminist Consciousness in Colonial West Africa  28. 'Under Western Eyes' Revisited: Feminist Solidarity Through Anticapitalist Struggles  29.Feminism's