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