Writing Gender History

Essential for students and scholars alike, Writing Gender History, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive critical overview of the evolution and influence of gender in historical writing. Revised and updated to include recent scholarship by such figures as Judith Butler and Irène Théry, this edition adds material on psychoanalytic ways of thinking about gender--including Lacanian and Kleinian concepts--as examples of a third way to consider identity. It also examines the possible...
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Essential for students and scholars alike, Writing Gender History, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive critical overview of the evolution and influence of gender in historical writing. Revised and updated to include recent scholarship by such figures as Judith Butler and Irène Théry, this edition adds material on psychoanalytic ways of thinking about gender--including Lacanian and Kleinian concepts--as examples of a third way to consider identity. It also examines the possible future of gender history and the link between scholarship and politics in the twenty-first century.