Gender and the Historian

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by Johanna Alberti

Longman, Inc.

Due/Published March 2002, 200 pages, paper

ISBN 0582404630

This is an examination of the impact of feminism and gender studies on the writing of history in the second half of the twentieth century. Interest in the question of gender difference intensified during the period of 1969-1999. One of the causes of this fascination was the rapid development of women's history, spurred by feminist politics and a growing interest in gender history as a rich and as yet untapped vein for research. Gender and the Historian traces the theoretical debates about the nature and scope of the history of gender.