Writing Women’s History since the Renaissance

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ID19918919
AuthorsMary Spongberg (0000-0002-9066-3179, corresponding author)
Year2002
Publication date2002-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueWriting Women’s History since the Renaissance (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherMacmillan Education UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/978-0-230-20307-5
OpenAlexW632221893
Open LibraryOL10555752M
ISBN9780230203075
LanguageEN
Citations received16

The complaint of Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, that history has 'hardly any women at all' is not an uncommon one. Yet there is evidence to suggest that women have engaged in historical writing since ancient times. This study traces the history of women's historical writing, reclaiming the lives of individual women historians, recovering women's historical writings from the past and focusing on how gender has shaped the genre of history. Mary Spongberg brings together for the first time an extensive survey of the progress of women's historical writing from the Renaissance to the present, demonstrating the continuities between women's historical writings in the past and the development of a distinctly woman-centred historiography. Writing Women's History since the Renaissance also examines the relationship between women's history and the development of feminist consciousness, suggesting that the study of history has alerted women to their unequal status and enabled them to use history to achieve women's rights. Whether feminist or anti-feminist, women who have had their historical writings published have served as role models for women seeking a voice in the public sphere and have been instrumental in encouraging the growth of a feminist discourse

Art · Art history · Literature · The Renaissance · Classics · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Feminism · Feminism & Feminist Theory · Historiography · History: World · Modern period, c 1500 onwards · Renaissance · Social history · Social Science · Sociology · Textbooks · Women · Women historians · Women's Studies · Women's Studies - General · Women's Studies - History

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