5. Gender and the politics of exceptionalism in the writing of british women’s history

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Writing women’s history across time and space: Introduction 1
5. Imagining new histories: late-twentieth-century trajectories
6. 1. Women’s past and the currents of u.s. history 17
7. 2. New directions in Russian and soviet women’s history 38
8. 3. Putting the political in economy: African women’s and gender history, 1992–2010 61
9. 4. Sexual crises, women’s history, and the history of sexuality in europe 91
10. Engendering national and nationalist projects
11. 5. Gender and the politics of exceptionalism in the writing of british women’s history 115
12. 6. Amateur historians, the “woman question,” and the production of modern history in turn-of-the-twentieth-century egypt 137
13. 7. Women’s and gender history in modern india: researching the past, reflecting on the present 161
14. Exploring transnational approaches
15. 8. World history meets history of masculinity in latin american studies 187
16. 9. Connecting histories of gender, health, and u.s.-china relations 211
17. 10. A happier marriage?: feminist history takes the transnational turn 237
18. About the contributors 259
19. Index 263