Gender History in Practice is a serious, probing collection of essays by a leading historian of gender history. The essays are broad in scope, and range over the most controversial issues in the field of gender history, among them, the relationship between discourse and experience, the politics of the body, and the construction of political subjectivity for women. Kathleen Canning's ... Read moreexhaustive analysis of the historiographical literature in these areas, as well as her own provocative insights, in particular about the body, will make Gender History in Practice required reading for all historians of gender and sexuality. -Mary Louise Roberts, University of Wisconsin-Madison Gender History in Practice conveys the richness of Kathleen Canning's thought and the depth of her knowledge of German history. It shows a stunning breadth of knowledge and reading, an admirable refusal to accept simple dichotomies, and an insistence that if theory and history are to engage fruitfully, they must be as complex and flexible as the issues and evidence they seek to explain. -Mary Nolan, New York University Show Less