Feminism and History

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents v
• Notes on Contributors vii
• Introduction 1
• Notes 13
• Part I - Women 15
• 1 - Does a Sex Have a History? 32
• 2 - The Dialectics of Black Womanhood 34
• Conclusion: Toward a New Model 44
• Notes 46
• 3 - Theorizing Woman: Funü, Guojia, Jiating (Chinese Women, Chinese State, Chinese Family) 69
• Part II - Gender 77
• 4 - Women's History' in Transition: The European Case Natalie Zemon Davis 93
• 5 - The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex 145
• 6 - Gender: a Useful Category of Historical Analysis 175
• Part III - Race 181
• 7 - African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race 201
• 8 - Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Gender, Race, and Morality in Colonial Asia 209
• Notes 252
• References 257
• 9 - Equality and Difference in National Socialist Racism 267
• Conclusion 285
• Notes 287
• Part IV - Class 291
• 10 - Southern Honour, Southern Dishonour: Managerial Ideology and the Construction of Gender, Race, and Class Relations in Southern Industry 311
• 11 - Sex and Skill: Notes Towards a Feminist Economics 317
• Notes 328
• Part V - Sexuality 331
• 12 - Discipline and Respectability: Prostitution and the Reformation in Augsburg 357
• 13 - The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations Between Women in Nineteenth-Century America 388
• 14 - Creating Boundaries: Homosexuality and the Changing Social Order in France, 1830-1870 398
• Conclusion 420
• Notes 422
• 15 - Female Desires: The Meaning of World War II 446
• Part VI - Feminisms 451
• 16 - Womanist Consciousness: Maggie Lena Walker and the Independent Order of Saint Luke 469
• 17 - Gender in the Critiques of Colonialism and Nationalism: Locating the 'Indian Woman' 499
• 18 - A Gender Diary 538
• Part VII - History 545
• 19 - Historiography, Objectivity, and the Case of the Abusive Widow 564
• 20 - Women's Culture and Women's Power: Issues in French Women's History 593
• Bibliography 597
• Index 603

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