Karen Offen

Writing women's history : international perspectives

Part 1 Conceptual and methodological issues: challenging dichotomies - perspectives on womens history, Gisela Bock demographic history and its perception of women from the 17th to the 19th century, Anne-Lise Head-Konig uneven developments - womens history, feminist history, and gender history in Great Britain, Jane Rendall finding our own ways - different paths to womens history in the United States, Phyllis Stock-Morton experience, difference, dominance and voice in the writing of Canadian womens history, Ruth Roach Pierson womens culture and womens power - issues in French womens history, Cecile Dauphin et al global womens history - organizing principles and cross-cultural understandings, Ida Blom. Part 2 The state of the art in womens history: writing the history of Australian women, Patricia Grimshaw the development of womens history in Japan, Noriyo Hayakawa womens history in India - a historiographical survey, Aparn Basu writing women into history - the Nigerian experience, Bolanle Awe womens history in Norway - a short survey, Ingeborg Floystad the state of womens history in Denmark, Nanna Damsholt the state of womens history in Sweden - an overview, Yvonne Hirdman womens history behind the dykes - reflections of the situation in the Netherlands, Francisca de Haan womens history in Austria, Brigette Mazohl-Wallnig issues in womens history in the Federal Republic of Germany, Ute Frevert and Christina Vanja historical research on women in the German Democratic Republic, Petra Rantzsch and Erika Uitz womens history in Switzerland, Regina Wecker womens history in Brazil - production and perspectives, Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva two decades of womens history in Spain - a re-appraisal, Mary Nash womens history in Yugoslavia, Andrea Feldman womens history in Greece, Efi Avdela the development of womens history in Ireland, Mary Cullen womens history in Italy, Paola Di Cori women, gender and family in the Soviet Union and Central/East Europe - a preliminary bibliography, Mary F.Zirin.

Women, the Family, and Freedom the Debate in Documents

CONTENTS PART I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. PART II. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

Ernest Legouvé and the Doctrine of "Equality in Difference" for Women: A Case Study of Male Feminism in Nineteenth-Century French Thought

In the midst of the revolutionary spring of 1848, five hundred Parisian men and women flocked to the College de France on Wednesdays for a series of free lectures on womens history. These lectures, which began in early April and ran for several months, were sponsored by the new republican ministry of public instruction. The speaker was the wellknown dramatist and essayist Ernest Wilfred Legouve (1807-1903), later a member of the Academie Frangaise. l

Madame Ghénia Avril de Sainte‐Croix, the Josephine Butler of France

This article discusses the contributions of Ghénia Avril de Sainte‐Croix (1855–1939), a very important early twentieth‐century French feminist, to the campaigns against regulated prostitution. Savioz, as she was known before her marriage in 1900 to Francois Avril, became a great admirer of the work of Josephine Butler and carried on her campaigns not only in France and in international congresses, but also at the League of Nations, following World War I.

Women in the Western World

Histoire des femmes en Ocddent. Vol. 5: Le XXe sià ̈cle. Françoise Thébaud, ed. Georges Duby and MicheUe Perrot, series editors. Paris: Pion, 1992. 644 pp. ISBN 2-259-02386-X (d); 320FF. PubUshed in English as A History of Women in the West. Toward a Cultural Identity in the Twentieth Century. Françoise Thébaud, ed. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1994.713 pp.; Ul. ISBN 0-674-40374-6 (d);

French Women's History: Retrospect (1789-1940) and Prospect

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“Powered by a woman's foot:” A documentary introduction to the sexual politics of the sewing machine in nineteenth-century France

France and Women, 1789–1914: Gender, Society, and Politics, by James F. McMillan (London, 1998) Paroles oubliées: Les femmes et la construction de l’Etat-nation en France et en Italie (1789–1860), by Christiane Veauvy and Laura Pisano (Paris, 1997) Femmes dans la cité, 1815–1871, edited by Alain Corbin, Jacqueline Lalouette, and Michèle Riot-Sarcey (Grâne, 1997) For Health and Beauty: Physical Culture for Frenchwomen, 1880s–1930s, by Mary Lynn Stewart (Baltimore, 2001) Bodies and Souls: Politics and the Professionalization of Nursing in France, 1880– 1922, by Katrin Schultheiss (Cambridge, Mass., 2001) The Rise of Professional Women in France: Gender and Public Administration since 1830, by Linda L. Clark (Cambridge, 2000) Maternité et droits des femmes en France (XIXe–XXe siècles), by Anne Cova (Paris, 1997) ‘‘Au service de l’église, de la patrie et de la famille’’: Femmes catholiques et maternité sous la IIIe République, by Anne Cova (Paris, 2000) Les femmes dans l’action sanitaire, sociale et culturelle, 1901–2001: Les associations face aux institutions, by Evelyne Diebolt (Paris, 2001) Un siècle de vie associative: Quelles opportunités pour les femmes? Colloque international tenu à l’Assemblée nationale et au Centre historique des Archives nationales les 14–15–16 mai 2001 pour la commémoration du centenaire de la loi 1901, edited by Evelyne Diebolt and Christiane Douyère-Demeulenaere (Paris, 2002) French Women and the First World War: War Stories of the Home Front, by Margaret Darrow (Oxford, 2000)

A Historical Memory for Women: The Gosteli Archive Documents More than One Hundred Years of Swiss Women's History

Abstract This article reconstructs a forgotten but highly significant nineteenth-century French controversy over the sewing machine and womens industrial labor, supported by the translated texts of three revealing documents. It offers a preliminary contribution to our understanding of the highly gendered intersection of issues concerning technological innovation, economics, and medicine during the period of accelerating industrialization that marked the latter half of the nineteenth century in Western Europe and America. In an afterword, the author raises questions for further comparative research.

Women's History at the Cutting Edge: a joint paper in two voices

This article, originally published in German in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (20-21 March 1998), describes the Gosteli Archive for Womens History in Switzerland, founded in 1982 by Marthe Gosteli, and lodged in a villa near Bern that was once her family home. The Gosteli Foundation assures the future of the archive. Kornelia Freitag, a visiting scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University, and assistant professor of American studies at the University of Potsdam, Germany, is primarily responsible for the translation, with the assistance of womens historian Karen Offen.

The Past and Present of European Women's and Gender History: A Transatlantic Conversation

ABSTRACT This is, as the subtitle indicates, a joint paper in two voices. Each author has worked with her counterpart to revise what began as their position paper for the Round Table ‘Women’s History at the Cutting Edge’ at the International Congress for the Historical Sciences, held in August 2015 in Jinan, China, which met jointly with the International Federation for Research in Womens History (IFRWH). Chen Yan explains her perplexity about the reticence of Chinese historians (based in China) to embrace topics in womens and gender history, using her own case as an example. She then poses five questions in the paper to stimulate reflections from the commentators, drawing on their varied experiences as historians of women and gender in other countries. Her particular objective is to ‘jump-start’ research and publication in these areas in China, where a variety of obstacles dissuade scholars from pursuing this path. Karen Offen’s contribution builds out from that of Chen Yan, arguing that womens and gender history is at the cutting edge of historical research precisely because it offers ‘a revolutionary development in the politics of historical knowledge’. No historian can be considered ‘up-to-date’ in the field of history without taking its findings into account. Offen addresses each of the five questions, making provocative arguments and rehearsing some of the achievements in providing an organizational structure that welcomes historians from many lands through the IFRWH. She emphasizes the vast expansion of publications in the field during the last twenty-some years in many languages besides English and addresses the controversies of the 1990s concerning the ‘turn’ to gender history and to theoretical analyses. Offen then proposes thinking about ‘women’ and ‘gender’ as two focal points along the continuum of the same project, using the analogy of the ‘zoom lens’. Making womens history an integral part of historical study requires a ‘gendered analysis’ of any historical topic, but it also requires deeper thinking about communication strategies that can bring the findings of our research to the general public.