Retrieving Women's History

Changing Perceptions of the Role of Women in Politics and Society

By: S. J. Kleinberg

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This volume investigates the role played by women in ancient, more recent and contemporary history and demonstrates that taking into account the activities of women radically alters the perspectives of historians.

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"Representing a balanced, sophisticated, critical and comparative approach, the authors contribute a wealth of bibliographic information as well as fresh insights into women's history ... Readers seeking a concise, well-informed resource will profit from this collection." --Choice

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Preface
Introduction
Theoretical and methodological issues in the study of women in history	p. 1
The problem of invisibility	p. 5
The presentation of African women in historical writing	p. 30
Making history: women in France	p. 41
Redressing the balance or transforming the art? the British experience	p. 60
The role of women in the history of the Arab states	p. 79
Women, work and family	p. 99
Women and the slave plantation economy in the Caribbean	p. 105
Historical evolution in the sexual division of labour in Nigeria	p. 133
Sexual divisions: women's work in late nineteenth-century England	p. 148
Hidden work: outwork in Dutch industrialisation	p. 166
Women in the economy of the United States from the American Revolution to 1920	p. 186
Women, the state and politics	p. 215
From empire to nation state: transformations of the woman question in Turkey	p. 219
Women, state and politics: the Soviet experience	p. 241
Women's politics and women in politics in Norway since the end of the nineteenth century	p. 254
Feminism and politics: women and the vote in Uruguay	p. 278
Towards developing a history of women: regional and cultural challenges	p. 299
The history of women in Latin America	p. 303
Breaking out of invisibility: rewriting the history of women in Ancient India	p. 319
Women in Muslim history: traditional perspectives and new strategies	p. 338
Breaking the silence and broadening the frontiers of history: recent studies on African women	p. 356
Notes on Contributors	p. 365
Bibliography	p. 368
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