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Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources

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The contributors of Contesting Archives challenge the assumption that an archive is a neutral, immutable, and a historical repository of information. Instead, these historians view it as a place where decisions are made about whose documents--and therefore whose history--is important. Finding that women's voices and their texts were often obscured or lost altogether, they have developed many new methodologies for creating unique archives and uncovering more evidence by reading documents "against the grain," weaving together many layers of information to reveal complexities and working collectively to reconstruct the lives of women in the past.

Global in scope, this volume demonstrates ... Read more

Contributors are Janet Afary, Maryam Ameli-Rezai, Antoinette Burton, Nupur Chaudhuri, Julia Clancy-Smith, Mansoureh Ettehadieh, Malgorzata Fidelis, Joanne L. Goodwin, Kali Nicole Gross, Daniel S. Haworth, Sherry J. Katz, Elham Malekzadeh, Mary Elizabeth Perry, Kathleen Sheldon, Lisa Sousa, and Ula Y. Taylor.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252077364
SKU
V9780252077364
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About Chaudhuri
Nupur Chaudhuri is a professor of history at Texas Southern University and the coeditor of Voices of Women Historians: Personal, Professional, and Political. Sherry J. Katz is a lecturer in the department of history at San Francisco State University. Mary Elizabeth Perry is a retired professor of history at Occidental College and a research associate at the UCLA ... Read more

Reviews for Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources
Received the Barbara "Penny" Kanner Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians, 2011. "A pleasure to read. . . . A terrific primer on how to research the seemingly invisible and silent."
Pacific Historical Review." "A compelling exploration of topics in women's and gender history across several continents and through several centuries."
The American Archivist "Contesting Archives makes vivid ... Read more

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