The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice

by Bonnie G. Smith

Book Overview

In this pathbreaking study of the gendering of the practices of history, Bonnie 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 which the profession defined itself in opposition to amateurism, femininity, and alternative ways of writing history. The male historians of the archive and the seminar claimed to be searching...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674341813
• ISBN13: 9780674341814
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"