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Re-presenting the past : women and history /

Contributor(s): Gallagher, Ann-Marie | Lubelska, Cathy | Ryan, Louise, 1965-.
Publisher: Harlow, England ; Longman, 2001Description: viii, 224 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 058238219X; 9780582382190:; 9780582382190.Subject(s): Women -- History | Women -- Historiography | Women in popular culture | Women -- Public opinionDDC classification: 305.4 | GAL
Contents:
List of contributors -- Introduction / Ann-Marie Gallagher, Cathy Lubelska and Louise Ryan -- Splendidly silent : representing Irish Republican women, 1919-23 / Louise Ryan -- Telling stories about the ladies of Llangollen : the construction of lesbian and feminist histories / Alison Oram -- 'A little, decent-looking woman' : violence against nineteenth-century working women and the social history of crime / Shani D'Cruze -- Feminist historians and challenges to imperial history / Clare Midgley -- The stigmata of 'widowhood' and Indian feminism : expanding the boundaries of international feminism / Parita Mukta -- Representing nation : women, obituaries and national biography / Wendy Webster -- Writing women in : new approaches to Russian and Soviet history / Melanie Ilič -- New histories of the labour movement / June Hannam -- Chasing shadows : issues in researching feminist social histories of women's health / Cathy Lubelska -- Towards a feminist framework for the history of women's leisure, 1920-60 / Claire Langhamer.
Summary: Re-presenting the Past is a lively and engaging look at how women have been misrepresented and excluded in historical accounts of the past and what feminist historians are doing to redress the balance.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of contributors -- Introduction / Ann-Marie Gallagher, Cathy Lubelska and Louise Ryan -- Splendidly silent : representing Irish Republican women, 1919-23 / Louise Ryan -- Telling stories about the ladies of Llangollen : the construction of lesbian and feminist histories / Alison Oram -- 'A little, decent-looking woman' : violence against nineteenth-century working women and the social history of crime / Shani D'Cruze -- Feminist historians and challenges to imperial history / Clare Midgley -- The stigmata of 'widowhood' and Indian feminism : expanding the boundaries of international feminism / Parita Mukta -- Representing nation : women, obituaries and national biography / Wendy Webster -- Writing women in : new approaches to Russian and Soviet history / Melanie Ilič -- New histories of the labour movement / June Hannam -- Chasing shadows : issues in researching feminist social histories of women's health / Cathy Lubelska -- Towards a feminist framework for the history of women's leisure, 1920-60 / Claire Langhamer.

Re-presenting the Past is a lively and engaging look at how women have been misrepresented and excluded in historical accounts of the past and what feminist historians are doing to redress the balance.

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