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... Her focus is on the effect of assumptions about gender both upon the way the discipline has developed and upon the experience of women historians, including a large number of nineteenth-century "amateurs" who, she suggests, created far more significant work than the accepted historiography has recognized. ... A thoughtful investigation of womens amateur writing, she argues, can enable one to understand how historiography implicated science, seminar training, and archival research mutually in male subjectivity, to cast male historians as the embodiments of universal truth
Bonnie Smith demonstrates how the practices of history, and indeed its very definition, have been shaped by gender. ...
The Gender of History traces the emergence of a renewed interest in social and cultural history, which had been demeaned in the nineteenth century, when professional historians viewed themselves as supermen who could see through the surface of events to invisible meanings and motives.
Approximate Word count = 1061
Approximate Pages = 4.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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