Journal articles: 'Women Historians'

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Berg, Maxine. "The First Women Economic Historians." Economic History Review 45, no. 2 (May 1992): 308. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2597625.

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Lila, Bonghi Yawn. "Medieval Women Artists and Modem Historians." Medieval Feminist Newsletter 12 (September 1991): 10–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.17077/1054-1004.1592.

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Jihhun Park. "The Authors Vividly Describe Women's Lives and Activities of Modern China as the Korean Historians' Viewpoint." Women and History ll, no. 24 (June 2016): 221–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.22511/women..24.201606.221.

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Trofimenkoff, Susan Mann. "Gossip in History." Historical Papers 20, no. 1 (April 26, 2006): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/030929ar.

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Abstract Comment résumer un discours bilingue sur le commérage? What a task! The author dares to suggest that what really goes on at the annual meetings of the CHA is gossip. Que les historiens préfèrent V appeler "le parler boutique" indique leur malaise devant le commérage. And yet gossip, rich in information, evaluation and entertainment is much more descriptive of what historians actually do at the CHA. In order to explain the uneasiness surrounding the word gossip the author traces the origin and changing meanings of the word gossip /commérage. In both French and English the word follows an identical etymological course through history and somewhere around the sixteenth century, the word acquires the modern sense of a chattery woman. The author links this new meaning of the word to a series of other changes, associated with the Scientific Revolution of the same period, the results of which were the subordination of women. Gossip became a language of powerlessness. But it is also a language special to women, revealing a rich oral culture. Without quite knowing it, historians use aspects of that culture in their own work for they are constantly analyzing the changing norms of any given society. The author illustrates the importance of gossip for premodern societies but argues that as many illustrations can be found for the twentieth century, even in Canada. She concludes by suggesting that gossip may be the historian's clue to deciphering what was really going on in Canadian history which, for ease of reference, she divides into three chatty parts. Une histoire du commérage pourrait tout révéler. . ..

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Leonard, Elizabeth D., Michele Gillespie, and Catherine Clinton. "Taking off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women Historians." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 58, no. 4 (1999): 451. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40025517.

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Lewis, Charlene M. Boyer, Michele Gillespie, and Catherine Clinton. "Taking Off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women Historians." Journal of Southern History 66, no. 2 (May 2000): 402. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2587681.

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Iversen, Joan Smyth, Michele Gillespie, and Catherine Clinton. "Taking off the White Gloves: Southern Women and Women Historians." History Teacher 33, no. 2 (February 2000): 269. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/494983.

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Kirkley, Evelyn A. "‘This Work is God's Cause’: Religion in the Southern Woman Suffrage Movement, 1880–1920." Church History 59, no. 4 (December 1990): 507–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3169146.

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As I began researching religion and woman suffrage in the South I asked a prominent historian of southern religion if he knew of any sources. I had assumed that religion and woman suffrage had an intimate relationship in the South, since historians have amply documented the close connection between southern religion and culture. After scraching his head for a moment, however, he commented dryly, “There really aren't any sources. That will be a short paper.” He went on to explain that religious arguments were seldom used in the struggle for woman suffrage, that natural rights ideology and the social benefits of moral women voting were more common defenses than ones based on Scripture. Even antisuffragists relied on the threat of black women voting and the superfluity of women voting when they were represented by their husbands at the ballot box more often than explicitly religious arguments.

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Hufton, Olwen. "Women in History." Index on Censorship 14, no. 6 (December 1985): 25–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03064228508533988.

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Hill, Bridget. "Women, Work and the Census: a Problem for Historians of Women." History Workshop Journal 35, no. 1 (1993): 78–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hwj/35.1.78.

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McCurry, Stephanie, and Anne Firor Scott. "Unheard Voices: The First Historians of Southern Women." Journal of American History 81, no. 4 (March 1995): 1791. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2081803.

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Hamilton, Virginia Van Der Veer, and Anne Firor Scott. "Unheard Voices: The First Historians of Southern Women." Journal of Southern History 60, no. 3 (August 1994): 614. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2211045.

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MARTIN, JANE. "Neglected Women Historians: the case of Joan Simon." FORUM 56, no. 3 (2014): 541. http://dx.doi.org/10.15730/forum.2014.56.3.541.

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Paseta, S. "A 'Manly Study'? Irish Women Historians, 1868-1949." English Historical Review CXXIII, no. 502 (May 30, 2008): 803–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cen169.

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Synnott, Marcia G. "Reshaping Women's History: Voices of Nontraditional Women Historians." Journal of American History 106, no. 4 (March 1, 2020): 1024–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaz687.

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Pushkareva,, N. L., and O. I. Sekenova. "“DOING HOUSEWORK”: DOMESTIC WORKERS IN EVERYDAY LIFE OF WOMEN-HISTORIANS OF THE 1ST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY." Вестник Пермского университета. История, no. 4(51) (2020): 5–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2219-3111-2020-4-5-15.

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The article focuses on the practices used by the first Russian women-historians in the 1st half of the 20th century to reconcile the main job, i.e. academic researches, and the domestic chores. Based on ego-documents (diaries, memoirs and personal letters), the authors try to reconstruct the main principles and strategies that successful Russian women-historians used for managing their various professional and home duties. The article also analyzes the practices of interaction between women-researchers and their maids who helped them to handle household affairs. Before the Great Revolution, nearly all first Russian women-historians were of noble and rich origin (from the families of intellectual Russian nobility). They did not need to take care of money and could spend time not not making a living, but research. Like other women in their position, they used waged labour (cooks, maids, and nannies) to create the conditions for their academic success. The Great Revolution and the Civil War changed the way of life for all the social strata. Those women-historians who chose to stay in their homeland rather than emigrate, had to take care of everyday problems of themselves and their families. Their career became to depend on the opportunity to share the home duties with someone else. When scholars became part of the Soviet elite, using domestic work became a socially upheld behavioral rule. Soviet women-historians hired women from villages who had fled from the collectivization to delegate them their routine domestic chores and to get free time for research and lecturing.

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Clapp, Elizabeth J. "Welfare and the Role of Women: The Juvenile Court Movement." Journal of American Studies 28, no. 3 (December 1994): 359–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875800027638.

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Only in recent years, largely as a consequence of developments in women's history, have scholars begun to explore the role of women in the building of the welfare state. By placing gender at the centre of their vision, these historians have questioned established certainties and undercut old paradigms. Analysis of the role of women in welfare has, moreover, influenced the wider history of women, bringing to light new facets of a major organizing concept for historians of women: the interaction between public and private spheres. This paper, therefore, has two linked purposes: to review recent scholarship on women's role in welfare and, through an analysis of the juvenile court movement, one of the major social welfare reforms of the Progressive Era, to identify issues of controversy and debate among historians of women and welfare.

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Sidorova, Tamara A. "The Women-Historians in F.W. Maitland’s Scientific School: Mary Bateson." IZVESTIYA VUZOV SEVERO-KAVKAZSKII REGION SOCIAL SCIENCE, no. 1 (209) (March 30, 2021): 78–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.18522/2687-0770-2021-1-78-88.

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Women-historians make up a small part of the scientific school of the outstanding British historian and lawyer F.W. Maitland (1850-1906). The gender profile of F.W. Maitland’s school was not the subject of special study. The women’s coming in the historical science of Great Britain in 1880-1890s was the result of a broad suffragist movement, granting women equal rights with men in higher education in national universities. The formation of “female” medieval studies was influenced by F.W. Maitland as a scholar and a professor of Cambridge University - his methodological approach, relevance with archival records as the main base of the historical studies, his fruitful publishing activities. Three prominent women-medievalists - Mary Bateson (1850-1906), Helen Maud Cam (1885-1968) and Bertha Haven Putnam (1872-1960), specialized in different spheres of the English medieval history, but in line with the teacher’s methodology, represented F.W. Maitland’s scientific school the most clearly. The scientific activity of Mary Bateson, a recognized and direct student of F.W. Maitland, one of the most famous British scientists in the field of medieval studies, is being investigated.

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JENSEN, JOAN M. "Telling Stories: Keeping Secrets." Agricultural History 83, no. 4 (October 1, 2009): 437–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00021482-83.4.437.

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Abstract This article addresses the reticence of some farm women to share their experiences with historians and how that desire to keep secrets collides with the desire by scholars to tell the stories of these women. It argues that scholars must continue to struggle with the issue of which stories to tell publicly and which to keep private. The author discusses her own experience telling stories about rural women in the 1970s and the need to give voice to the heritage of rural women, especially of groups that have feared revealing their experiences. She offers examples of historians of rural women who have successfully worked with formerly silenced populations and urges historians to continue to tell stories about these lives, to reevaluate what has been already learned, to ask new questions, and to discuss which secrets need to be shared.

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MacLeod, Roy. "Margaret Mary Gowing CBE FBA. 26 April 1921 — 7 November 1998." Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 58 (January 2012): 67–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbm.2012.0027.

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If some historians are born great, few achieve greatness. But some have greatness thrust upon them. This was certainly true of Margaret Mary Gowing, civil servant, archivist, and Britain’s first official historian of the nuclear age. From modest origins, but armed with a good education, and favoured by the circumstances of Britain at war, Gowing met and seized opportunities that led her eventually to occupy a position of national prominence that few historians—and, at the time, few women historians—could have anticipated, and which even fewer achieved. Her greatest, lasting scholarly contribution takes the form of two books, which in their mastery of official records laid the foundations of archival research upon which later generations of scholars have built. But her progress was never easy, nor were her successes complete. Ever entwined, her personal and her professional lives were deeply touched by moments of acute stress, tinged with tragedy, that came to affect not only her academic performance but also the lives of family, friends, colleagues and students.

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Gunnell, Kristine Ashton. "No Straight Path: Becoming Women Historians, by Elizabeth Jacoway." Women's Studies 49, no. 8 (October 21, 2020): 911–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2020.1826262.

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Crawford, Patricia. "Historians, Women and the Civil War Sects, 1640 - 1660." Parergon 6, no. 1 (1988): 19–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pgn.1988.0015.

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Szadkowski, Paweł. "Rola kobiet we wczesnonowożytnej wojskowości: próba spojrzenia na przykładzie siedemnastowiecznej armii hiszpańskiej." Czasopismo Naukowe Instytutu Studiów Kobiecych, no. 1(14) (2023): 9–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.15290/cnisk.2023.01.14.01.

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This article is devoted to the different roles played by women in the seventeenth-century Spanish army. As the issue of the presence of women in pre-industrial armies has not received much attention among researchers, the problem is still presented according to stereotypes shaped by nineteenth-century historiography and the early works of military historians. In their light, women in the armies of the early modern era assumed at best the role of servants, laundresses, cooks or offered sexual services. More recent works by historians of social military history, however, shed a completely different light on the issue, showing them not only as actively participating in army life, but also as taking up arms or seeking help for themselves and their soldiers’ orphans after the war. In this article, I will present the three roles of women that emerge from the sources – woman in armed combat, widow and mother – for the seventeenth-century Spanish army.

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Shulman, Holly C., and Anna K. Nelson. "Public Documents and Public History: An Interview with Anna K. Nelson." Public Historian 25, no. 1 (2003): 29–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2003.25.1.29.

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Anna K. Nelson is one of the leading members of the second generation of public historians, those women and men who have consolidated the early efforts of the pioneers of the field. A diplomatic historian by training, she has written about American foreign relations during the Mexican-American War and also during the Cold War. Alongside her traditional work as an academic historian, she has become an important expert in public documents: their preservation, access, and management. She was involved in nearly every aspect of the public history movement during the 1970s and 1980s, including serving for two years on the State Department's Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, representing the Organization of American Historians (OAH). She has been granted a number of awards for her work, including the Society for History in the Federal Government's Franklin Delano Roosevelt Prize for the Advancement of Historical Study of the Federal Government. Her achievements were nationally recognized when she received a presidential appointment to the Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board.

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Nelson, Janet L. "Women and the Word in the Earlier Middle Ages." Studies in Church History 27 (1990): 53–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0424208400012018.

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It is a characteristic merit of Richard Southern—recently voted the historians’ historian in The Observer—that as long ago as 1970, in Western Society and the Church, he devoted some luminous pages to ‘the influence of women in religious life’. Though these pages nestle in a chapter called ‘Fringe orders and anti-orders’, twenty years ago such labels were not pejorative. Southern made women emblematic of what could be called a pendulum-swing theory of medieval religious history. First came a primitive, earlier medieval age of improvization and individual effort, of spiritual warriors and local initiatives; the central medieval period saw ‘a drive towards increasingly well-defined and universal forms of organization’ in an age of hierarchy and order; then, in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, back swung the pendulum towards complexity and confusion, individual experiment, and ‘small, humble, shadowy organizations’.

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Sekenova, Olga I. "The practices of scientific everyday life in ego documents of the first Russian female historians in the second half of the 19th – the early 20th centuries." Vestnik of Kostroma State University 27, no. 1 (March 31, 2021): 39–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2021-27-1-39-44.

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The article focuses on the different stages of the creative process in historical research as a reflection of the professional everyday life of the first Russian female historians. Using their ego documents, it becomes possible to reconstruct the main difficulties in collecting material, creating scientific texts and publishing research results that were typical for female historians and unusual for their male colleagues. For example, the first female historians were forced to master the basics of research work themselves (even the programme of the Higher Courses for Women avoided teaching female students the method of historical research). Despite the active scientific work of female historians, in the second half of the 19th – the early 20th centuries they had not published many significant works because women could not publish their works on their own (in most cases it was too expensive for them), while professional publishers feared the lack of commercial success of the works of female historians. Ego documents testify to cases of borrowing the results of research work of female historians, the need to hide their real names at the request of publishers and other manifestations of discrimination against the first researchers in the Russian historical science.

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Hunter, Kathryn M. "The Drover's Wife and the Drover's Daughter: Histories of Single Farming Women and Debates in Australian Historiography." Rural History 12, no. 2 (October 2001): 179–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956793300002430.

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AbstractIn the 1980s two vigorous debates commanded the attention of economic and feminist historians alike, and they played a key part in shaping the historiography concerning rural women in Australia. One debate revolved around the use of the nineteenth-century census in determining women's occupations, including those of farming women. The other debate, part of a wider feminist conversation about women's agency, focused on the question of the nature of white women's lives within colonial families and society. Despite the centrality of rural women to these debates, and the role colonial women's histories played in shaping the historiography, these debates did not impact upon the writing of rural history in Australia. This article revisits these debates in the light of new research into the lives of never-married women on Australia's family farms and uses their histories to question the conclusions arrived at by feminist and economic historians. It also questions the continuing invisibility of rural women in histories of rural Australia and hopes to provoke more discussion between rural and feminist historians.

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Blom, Ida. "‘To Women in the Year 2000’: Norwegian Historians of Women, c.1900–c.1960." Gender & History 19, no. 3 (November 2007): 581–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0424.2007.00493.x.

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Fought, Leigh. "No Straight Path: Becoming Women Historians ed. by Elizabeth Jacoway." Journal of Southern History 87, no. 4 (2021): 755–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/soh.2021.0145.

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Smith, Bonnie G., Eileen Boris, and Nupur Chaudhuri. "Voices of Women Historians: The Personal, the Political, the Professional." Journal of American History 88, no. 1 (June 2001): 311. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2675077.

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Woodford, Charlotte. "Women as Historians: The Case of Early Modern German Convents." German Life and Letters 52, no. 3 (July 1999): 271–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-0483.00134.

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Sekenova, Olga, and Natalia Pushkareva. "TOWARDS A HISTORY OF EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE FIRST RUSSIAN WOMEN HISTORIANS OF THE LATE 19TH — BEGINNING OF THE 20TH CENTURY: LEISURE AND RECREATION." Antropologicheskij forum 17, no. 49 (June 2021): 132–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.31250/1815-8870-2021-17-49-132-153.

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The article focuses on the study of the anthropology of everyday life of persons of intellectual labor. The subject of the study are the leisure peculiarities of the everyday life and home life of the first Russian women historians of the pre-revolutionary period, the variety of forms of free time available to the first women scientists among professional historians, as well as the budget and the ratio of their working and free time. Reflecting on the peculiarities in the study of the everyday life of the academic and teaching communities and describing the main forms of leisure of “learned ladies”, the authors give examples of how they organize and attend intellectual “evenings”, reading professional and fictional literature, forms of public engagement, including charitable activities. Various documents of personal origin—memoirs, diaries, personal correspondences of the first Russian women historians—made it possible to draw conclusions about the complex interweaving of free and working time in the life of women scientists, the flow of work into leisure and vice versa. The authors also demonstrate that the gradual entry of women into the male academic environment significantly influenced the practice of leisure: the contamination of work and rest was sometimes forced, and the adaptation to an academic career went, among other things, through the assimilation of appropriate leisure practices, which became an integral part of the lifestyle of women scientists. The marginalized position of the first Russian women historians forced them to try to keep being involved in social interactions. For this purpose, they sought to consolidate professional acquaintances at informal evenings, where it was possible to understand the unwritten rules of conduct and corporate norms of the academic environment. That said, the real joy for women was the presence of personal space in which they could devote themselves to the scientific process—engaging in fruitful research work.

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Schmidt Blaine, Marcia. "The Power of Petitions: Women and the New Hampshire Provincial Government, 1695–1770." International Review of Social History 46, S9 (December 2001): 57–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020859001000335.

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There are very few sources available to historians which allow us to hear the voices of Anglo-American women. How can we understand what ordinary women believed were their responsibilities to their families and communities and the responsibilities of their government to them? Petitions provide historians with one of the few opportunities to “hear” non-elite women voice their concerns. In provincial New Hampshire, women regularly approached the royal government with individual requests. By viewing the rights associated with petitioning, the procedure involved, and the variety of applications for petition use, female agency in colonial society becomes more apparent. Through petitions, it is possible to understand under what circumstances women turned to the government for assistance, and under what circumstances the government granted their petitions.

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Xiaonan, Deng. "Women in Turfan during the Sixth to Eighth Centuries: A Look at their Activities Outside the Home." Journal of Asian Studies 58, no. 1 (February 1999): 85–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2658390.

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Some historians who study medieval Chinese women have tended to neglect the situation of common women who stayed at home dealing with family affairs, preferring instead to examine the far more complete documentation on exceptional women who gained power or prominence outside the home in the largely male-dominated world. In recent years, as more historians have paid closer attention to women's daily life in medieval times, they have made great breakthroughs in drawing on a multiplicity of sources (Ebrey, 1993). Yet sometimes they are still embarrassed by the problem of insufficient materials. The oasis of Turfan, lying on the Silk Road between China and India, contains the Astana-Karakhoja graveyards that have been excavated by different explorers, both Chinese and not, since the beginning of the century. The tombs contain many goods preserved by the dry desert climate, including paper shoes, belts, and hats which Chinese scholars have pieced together to form documents. This paper draws primarily on those materials shedding light on women's activities, which most historians interested in women have yet to utilize.

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Arenfeldt, Pernille. "The Female Consort as Intercessor in Sixteenth-Century Saxony." Fund og Forskning i Det Kongelige Biblioteks Samlinger 44 (October 14, 2005): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/fof.v44i3.133005.

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During the past ten to fifteen years the research interest in queens, female regents and consorts has grown rapidly. Continuing the approach advocated by gender and court historians alike, the analyses of women at the early modern courts have generally focused on informal forms of power. Although the increased emphasis on informal power has proved immensely productive in many respects, it has also resulted in oversimplifications and misleading anal-ogies; for example, in one study the agency of the female consort is reduced to a function of her marital relation and another historian concludes that the position of the female consort resem-bled that of the maîtresse or the court favorite. These conclusions also represent a conceptual – and highly political – problem because power is defined as access to the ruler. This implies that the ruler and other decision-makers are viewed as the “real” authorities. Unwittingly, the narrow view of politics and authority that gender historians persistently have striven to chal-lenge is thereby reconfirmed.

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Doran, Christine. "The Whore and the Madonna: The Ambivalent Positionings of Women in British Imperial Histories on Southeast Asia." Histories 2, no. 3 (September 17, 2022): 362–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/histories2030027.

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This article examines how British imperial historians of the early twentieth century, the zenith of the colonial era, approached the writing of British colonial women into their histories. In the early nineteenth century, hundreds of British women went out to the British colonies in Southeast Asia, yet to date, their stories and experiences have largely been neglected by historians. In general, the nature of the imperial project, with its emphasis on masculinist values of conquest, territorial expansionism and despotic administration, left little scope for the inclusion of women’s experiences and contributions in its histories. This article focuses closely on how British historians of the period of high imperialism approached writing about two prominent women, the wives of an imperialist hero, Stamford Raffles. It shows how conventional assumptions about women were entangled with prevailing gendered ideologies, such as the madonna/whore stereotypes, which in turn were enmeshed with notions concerning Orientalism, class and race. The result was a deeply ambivalent portrayal of these colonial women, which awkwardly brought together divergent elements of sexual scandal, wifely devotion, literary achievement, delicate health, career promotion, emotional care taking and judgments about beauty. These positionings tell us more about contemporary cultural discourses than they do about the women themselves.

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Cole, Juan R. I. "Of Crowds and Empires: Afro-Asian Riots and European Expansion, 1857–1882." Comparative Studies in Society and History 31, no. 1 (January 1989): 106–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500015681.

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Comparative studies pose special problems for historians, given their long tradition of being wed to the political history of individual countries and given the limitations of their methods, which lend themselves to (at most) middlerange generalizations. Sociology and anthropology have always seemed better poised to deal with the big questions across cultures. The rise of social history, however, provides new opportunities for comparative studies, insofar as such social entities and processes as cities, social classes, crowds, and women lend themselves better to comparison than do micropolitics within the framework of a single country's history. Despite these new possibilities, most historians demand intense contextualization and mistrust secondary sources, making it difficult for one scholar to master the relevant languages and archives in more than one culture, or to pose a broad enough question for comparative analysis. Much social history, even by the most sociologically minded historian, is likely to be based on archives and concerned largely with a single country or culture. Social historians can, however, legitimately inject a comparative element into their writing by paying special attention to the international aspects of their subject and by considering their works about particular social groups in individual countries as case studies in related phenomena.

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Luddy, Maria. "An agenda for women’s history in Ireland, 1500–1900: Part II: 1800–1900." Irish Historical Studies 28, no. 109 (May 1992): 19–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021121400018563.

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What is exciting about looking at women’s history in nineteenth-century Ireland is the great wealth of material which is available for study and research. Yet very little relevant work has been published. The reasons for this neglect are manifold, and include a basic indifference on the part of most academics to the role played by women in Irish history, which has resulted in the general exclusion of women from historical discourse. The lack of courses recognising the history of women has further relegated their study to the periphery. In Ireland historians, and particularly historians of women, have yet to establish a narrative and an explanatory and interpretative framework which includes Irish women. Through the work of historians in other countries, we have various conceptual frameworks within which to operate and many hypotheses to test with regard to the situation of women in Ireland. The areas for research are extensive. Here I intend to look generally at a number of aspects of women’s lives which have been investigated to some degree and to suggest sources which can be used to extend these investigations. I also wish to look at other issues which have received no attention but which would add considerably to our understanding, not only of women, but of the complex realities which made up nineteenth-century Irish society.

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Perry, Elisabeth Israels. "Men Are from the Gilded Age, Women Are from the Progressive Era." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 1, no. 1 (January 2002): 25–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537781400000086.

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This is an expanded version of the presidential address I gave to the Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (SHGAPE) at their meeting in 2000. In Part I, I use the catchphrase “Men are from the Gilded Age, Women are from the Progressive Era” as a way of making a critique of Progressive-era historiography from the perspective of women's history. In Part II, I suggest four specific ways in which Progressive-era historians might respond to that critique.

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Sekenova, Olga I. "Childhood in the memoirs of Russian female historians of the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries." RUDN Journal of Russian History 20, no. 2 (December 15, 2021): 286–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2312-8674-2021-20-2-286-294.

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The present paper studies ego-documents of Russian female historians written in the second half of the 19th and the early 20th centuries, with a focus on the works of N.I. Gagen-Thorn, E.V. Gutnova, M.M. Levis, V.N. Kharuzina, S.V. Zhitomirskaya, E.N. Shchepkina, and N.D. Flittner. How do these authors, in their childhood descriptions, discuss their professional choices? By producing ego-documents, the female historians wanted to preserve their memory of childhood events in the form of a new historical source. In so doing they followed the principles that they also adhered to when wri- ting historical essays. At the same time their texts are very subjective: each reflects the respective researcher's personal experiences. Each text is unique, and there are few overlaps with the memoirs of other female historians of their time, or with those of younger colleagues. In many ways, the women were influenced by authors of the Russian memoirist tradition; they often adhered to self-censorship (even when there was no clear ideological pressure from society). As a result, the narrative about childhood turned into a narrative about the prerequisites for the self-identification of women as scientists. Memories became a form of self-representation, and this conditioned the selective nature of childhood narratives; later success in the profession was projected back onto childhood memories. The childhood narratives of Russian female historians differ from texts of their male colleagues: women preferred to describe their impressions with references to material artifacts and to everyday rituals, writing carefully about their emotional experiences. One of the most important subjects in these womens memoirs and diaries was when they for the first time experienced the gender conflict in their lives: when they understood that their scholarly ambition runs against the common attitudes about gender attitudes that they had internalized in early childhood.

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Schultz, Jane E. "“Are We Not All Soldiers?”: Northern Women in the Civil War Hospital Service." Prospects 20 (October 1995): 39–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300006001.

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A photograph of three women in dark dresses, white aprons, and beehivelike white hats has been used by historians throughout the 20th Century as evidence that young, uniformed nurses served in general hospitals during the Civil War. This is a fine example of historical halftruth: the women in the photograph were young and uniformed, but they were not Civil War nurses. They were New Yorkers who had volunteered to work in a food concession at the Sanitary Commission's metropolitan fundraising fair in April, 1864, and they were dressed in traditional Normandy costumes to sell Normandy cakes. The 20th-century historian who first identified this photograph expected nurses to wear white hats, even though no female hospital worker in Civil War America to my knowledge ever wore professional headgear or a uniform.

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Van Os, Nicole A. N. M. "Living Through Wartime." Archiv orientální 88, no. 3 (February 16, 2021): 449–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.47979/aror.j.88.3.449-472.

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Archival sources, but also self-narratives, newspapers, and periodicals, have been im- portant sources for political and military historians of the last two decennia of the Ot- toman Empire in general and the First World War in particular. In recent years, an increasing number of historians have become interested in more than the political and military history of the period. The field has been broadened to include social history. Conventional sources have been reread to get a better understanding of the effects of the War on the social domains and everyday life. Self-narratives have proven to be in- valuable sources for social historians working on the period. These self-narratives were not only produced by the men in charge, but by people from all walks of life: soldiers and civilians, men and women noted down their wartime experiences in their diaries or letters home and in memoirs and autobiographies. In most cases, the self-narratives used by historians were, however, those written by men in which women were objecti- fied. In this paper, the self-narratives of women living in the Ottoman Empire during the First World War are preliminarily explored to give them a voice and turn them into subjects rather than objects.

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Steinke, Christopher. "Women in Bullboats: Indigenous Women Navigate the Upper Missouri River." Ethnohistory 64, no. 4 (October 1, 2017): 449–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00141801-4174231.

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Abstract By venturing out into the channel of the Missouri River, which they navigated for much of the nineteenth century, Arikara, Mandan, and Hidatsa women evaded American surveillance as well as indigenous enemies. They transported crucial supplies back to their villages, conducted long-distance expeditions that stretched hundreds of miles, and capitalized on their navigational experience by ferrying visitors across the river. Yet historians have mostly overlooked their mobility on the Missouri River. This article, which provides the first detailed account of their river travel, identifies an indigenous transportation regime in which Native women helped control passage across riparian borders.

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Jacobs, Margaret D. "Getting Out of a Rut: Decolonizing Western Women's History." Pacific Historical Review 79, no. 4 (November 1, 2010): 585–604. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2010.79.4.585.

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For over three decades, western women's historians have been working not just to challenge male biases within western history scholarship but also to create a more multicultural inclusive narrative. Paradoxically, however, the overarching narrative of western women's history continues to sideline women of color and to advance a triumphalist interpretation of white women in the West. This essay argues that a multicultural approach has not provided an adequate framework for understanding women and gender in the American West. Instead, western women historians must "decolonize" our narrative and our field through seriously considering the West as a colonial site. To do so, we must employ the tools and theories that scholars of gender and colonialism worldwide have developed to analyze other comparable colonial contexts and projects.

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Valkhoff, Femke. "‘Vrouwen die brouwen’: The Life and Work of Maritge Claesdr Vooght." Rijksmuseum Bulletin 71, no. 1 (March 13, 2023): 32–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.52476/trb.13837.

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As a result of a one-sided perspective and the lack of surviving information, historians and art historians have long had a blind spot when it comes to seventeenth-century women. This is why Maritge Claesdr Vooght’s life, and that of many other portrayed women in the museum, remains invisible. In addition to the standard methodology – traditional archival and literature research – studying the marginalized in history requires more attention to circumstantial evidence. This paradigm shift could potentially bring to light stories like Maritge Vooght’s, enabling us to write more inclusive and equitable histories.

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Loengard, Janet Senderowitz. "Legal History and the Medieval Englishwoman: A Fragmented View." Law and History Review 4, no. 1 (1986): 161–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/743718.

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Ninety-seven years ago, the English legal historian Frederic William Maitland gave a lecture called ‘Why the History of English Law is Not Written’. This essay has something of a similar theme, on a much more modest scale: ‘Why a recent, scholarly, relatively comprehensive history of medieval English law as it applied to women has not been written’. Its purpose is both to examine factors which may have deterred historians from undertaking such a project and to attempt an overview of the kind of work in women's legal history that has been, and is being, done.

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Cohen, Miriam. "Louise Audino Tilly: an appreciation." International Labor and Working-Class History 96 (2019): 168–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547919000243.

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AbstractLouise Audino Tilly, who died on March 2, 2018, enjoyed a relatively short twenty-five year career as a historian. But Tilly left an enduring imprint through her example and through her scholarship on the history of women and work, on the social and economic circumstances affecting collective action, and on the connections between demographic changes and family life. In more recent decades, several generations of historians have benefitted from the road maps she left pointing the way for emerging work on the connections between micro-level analysis and national and international histories of social change.

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Griffen, Clyde. "Community Studies and the Investigation of Nineteenth-Century Social Relations." Social Science History 10, no. 3 (1986): 315–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200015479.

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The recent popularity of community studies among investigators of nineteenth-century social history in the United States owes much to convergence of interests since the early 1970s among four broad groupings of historians: labor and radical historians concerned with class-formation; historians of women and the family; immigration historians; and urban historians concerned with the transformation of spatial and social structure. Stressing the importance of the interrelationships between their subjects, historians with these interests have tended to see the community study as the best means of describing the interrelationships fully and concretely. Howard Chudacoff expressed this perception when he characterized books on the artisans of Newark and on the iron and textile workers of Troy and Cohoes as “community studies of the best type, for they combine working class history with perspectives on family, ethnicity, mobility, stratification, ideology, technology, politics, and … show the importance of interactions between place and behavior” (Chudacoff, 1979: 535).

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HANRETTA, SEAN. "WOMEN, MARGINALITY AND THE ZULU STATE: WOMEN'S INSTITUTIONS AND POWER IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY." Journal of African History 39, no. 3 (November 1998): 389–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853798007282.

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For a number of years the historiography of Southern Africa has been dominated by a materialist framework that has focused upon modes of production and forms of socio-political organization as the determining factors in historical change. Those historians concerned with the history of women in pre-colonial societies – even those who have privileged gender relations in their analyses – have largely been content to construct women's history by applying the insights of socio-economic and political analyses of the past to gender dynamics, and by projecting the insights of anthropological analyses of present gender relations into the past. Some of these historians have concluded that until the arrival of capitalism no substantial changes in the situations, power or status of women took place within Zulu society, even during the period of systemic transformation known as the mfecane in the early nineteenth century.More recently, Zulu gender history has become part of a larger debate connected to the changing political and academic milieu in South Africa. Representatives of a revived Africanist tradition have criticized materialist historians for writing Zulu history from an outsider's perspective and of focusing overly on conflict and power imbalances within the nineteenth-century kingdom in an effort to discredit contemporary Zulu nationalism. To counter this, historian Simon Maphalala has stressed the harmony of nineteenth-century Zulu society, the power advisors exercised in state government, and the lack of internal conflict. Maphalala also claims that women's subordinate role in society ‘did not cause any dissatisfaction among them’, and argues that ‘[women] accepted their position and were contented’. In recent constitutional debates many South African intellectuals including members of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (CONTRALESA), invoked this ‘benign patriarchy’ model of pre-colonial gender relations to oppose the adoption of gender-equality provisions in the new constitution. As Cherryl Walker has noted, the hegemonic definition of traditional gender relations to which such figures have made rhetorical appeals often masks not only the historicity of these relations but also hides dissenting opinions (often demarcated along gender lines) as to what those relations are and have been.

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Harris, Barbara J. "Women and Politics in Early Tudor England." Historical Journal 33, no. 2 (June 1990): 259–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x00013327.

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Political historians working on the early Tudor period have traditionally concentrated on institutions – monarchy, council, parliament, courts, and administrative bodies – that excluded women. The very definition of politics underlying the dominant historiography has thus made it seem both natural and inevitable to write history as if the world of high politics, the world that really counted, were exclusively male.

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