From History as a Science to Women’s and Gender History 2

2 Março 2020, 18:00 • Ana Maria Seabra de Almeida Rodrigues

The years 1960s: the emergence of Women’s History. The contributory or accumulation phase.  Achievements and impasses in women’s history. The turn to gender. Effects of the introduction of the concept of gender. The situation in Portugal. 

 

Presentation (by Ana Moreira and Nikolina Barisic) and discussion of the articles of Joan Kelly, ‘Did Women Have a Renaissance?’, in Renate Bridenthal and Claudia Koonz (eds), Becoming Visible: Women in European History, Boston, Houghton-Mifflin, 1977, pp. 137–164 and Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks, ‘Do Women Need the Renaissance?’, Gender & History, 20-3, 2008, pp. 539–557. 

 

References: 

 

DOWNS, Laura Lee. Writing Gender History. London: Hodder Arnold, 2004. 

 

SCOTT, Joan Wallach, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis”, The American Historical Review, 91-5, 1986, pp. 1053-1075. 

 

SMITH, Bonnie. The Gender of History: Men, Women and Historical Practice. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press, 1998. 

 

TAVARES, Manuela. Feminismos. Percursos e desafios (1947-2007). Alfragide: Texto, 2010. 

 

THÉBAUD, Françoise. Écrire l’histoire des femmes.  2e ed. Lyon: ENS Éditions, 2001. 

 

VAQUINHAS, Irene. Impacte dos estudos sobre as mulheres na produção científica nacional – o caso da História. Ex-aequo, 6, 2002, pp. 147-174.