This book showcases the transformations that the intellectual and political production of women's history has engendered across time and space. It considers the difference women's and gender history has made to, and within, national fields of study, and to what extent the wider historiography has integrated this new knowledge. What are the accomplishments of women's and gender history? What are its shortcomings? What is its future? The chapters discuss the discovery of women's histories, the multiple turns the field has taken, and how place affected the course of this scholarship, from such hi ... More

This book showcases the transformations that the intellectual and political production of women's history has engendered across time and space. It considers the difference women's and gender history has made to, and within, national fields of study, and to what extent the wider historiography has integrated this new knowledge. What are the accomplishments of women's and gender history? What are its shortcomings? What is its future? The chapters discuss the discovery of women's histories, the multiple turns the field has taken, and how place affected the course of this scholarship, from such historiographically defined vantage points as Tsarist Russia, the British Empire in Egypt and India, Qing-dynasty China, and the United States roiling through the 1960s. The book surveys trajectories in the creation of women's histories in recent and distant pasts and envisions their futures.