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Liberating women's history : theoretical and critical essays

Lois W. Banner
- 01 Jun 1977 - 
- Vol. 64, Iss: 1, pp 113-114
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Papers furnishing a review and critique of past work in women's history are combined with selections delineating new approaches to the study of women in history and empirical studies considering ideological and class factors.
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Papers furnishing a review and critique of past work in women's history are combined with selections delineating new approaches to the study of women in history and empirical studies considering ideological and class factors.

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Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence

TL;DR: The authors argue that the erasure of lesbians from scholarly feminist literature is anti-lesbian and anti-feminist in its consequences, and to distort the experience of heterosexual women as well.
Book

Feminism and the contradictions of oppression

TL;DR: Feminism and the Contradictions of Oppression as mentioned in this paper is a comprehensive study of the development of feminism over the last thirty years, focusing on class, race, subculture and sexuality.
Journal ArticleDOI

Accounting histories of women: Beyond recovery?

TL;DR: In this article, the authors make an assessment of the contribution made by accounting histories of women produced since 1992 and the current state of knowledge production in this subject area, arguing that over the past 15 years scholarship has remained substantially in the “recovery” phase, has not “defamiliarized” the sub-field and is yet to engage with developments in feminist and gender historiography which offer regenerative potential.
Dissertation

The Southern Gentleman and the Idea of Masculinity: Figures and Aspects of the Southern Beau in the Literary Tradition of the American South

TL;DR: The authors analyzed texts of literature from the 1830s to the 1940s, that is texts announcing and exploring the New South to see how (and if) they renegotiated the situation of these Southern men, how they both repeated and deviated from the consensus discourse and the historical myths that constrained them, the ultimate goal being to examine the complexities of a gendered masculine struggle, reveal the shifts in gender meanings that could arise from such identification, or, by contrast, how the discourse of refined manhood or Southern gentlemanhood could be (re)mobilized during identity-sh
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Common Fate, Different Experience: Gender-Specific Aspects of the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1917

TL;DR: The Armenian Genocide offers opportunities for comparative gender studies, and Eyewitness accounts and diplomatic reports shed light on the place of gender during genocidal persecution.