The gender of history : men, women, and historical practice /
Bonnie Smith shows how the practices of history, and indeed its very definition, were shaped by gender. Smith resurrects the amateur history written by women in the nineteenth century - a type of history condemned as trivial by "scientific" male historians. She demonstrates the degree to w...
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : gender and the mirror of history
- The narcotic road to the past
- The birth of the amateur
- What Is a historian?
- The practices of scientific history
- Men and facts
- High amateurism and the panoramic past
- Women professionals : a third sex?
- Modernism, relativism, and everyday life.