Liberating Women's History: Theoretical and Critical Essays

Part I. On The Historiography Of Women -- Women In Society : Acritique Of Frederick Engels / Ann J. Lane -- Mary Beard's Woman As Force In History : A Critique / Berenice A. Carroll -- The Invisible Woman : The Historian As Professional Magician / Dolores Barracano Schmidt And Earl Robert Schmidt -- Historical Phallacies : Sexism In American Historical Writing / Linda Gordon [and Others] -- The Problem Of Women's History / Ann D. Gordon, Mari Jo Buhle, And Nancy Schrom Dye -- Part Ii. On Ideology, Sex, And History -- Gynecology And Ideology In Seventeenth-century England / Hilda Smith -- Education And Ideology In Nineteenth-century America : The Response Of Educational Institutions To The Changing Role Of Women / Adele Simmons -- Feminism And Liberalism In Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1918 / Amy Hackett -- Feminism And Class Consciousness In The British And American Women's Trade Union Leagues, 1890-1925 / Robin Miller Jacoby -- Latina Liberation : Tradition, Ideology, And Social Change In Iberian And Latin American Cultures / Ann M. Pescatello -- Racism And Tradition : Black Womanhood In Historical Perspective / Joyce A. Ladner -- The Politics Of Cultural Liberation : Male-female Relations In Algeria / Kay Boals -- Part Iii. On Class, Sex, And Social Change -- A Classical Scholar's Perspective On Matriarchy / Sarah B. Pomeroy -- The Cheshire Cat : Reconstructing The Experience Of Medieval Woman / Kathleen Casey -- Women In Covenents : Their Economic And Social Role In Colonial Mexico / Asunción Lavrin -- Sex And Class In Colonial And Nineteenth-century America / Ann D. Gordon And Mari Jo Buhle -- Beyond Kinder, Küche, Kirche : Weimar Women In Politics And Work / Renate Bridenthal And Claudia Koonz -- Women, Work, And The Social Order / Alice Kessler-harris -- Part Iv. Toward A Future Human Past -- New Approaches To The Study Of Women In American History / Gerda Lerner -- Placing Women In History : A 1975 Perspective / Gerda Lerner -- Feminism And The Methodology Of Women's History / Hilda Smith -- Four Structures In A Complex Unity / Juliet Mitchell -- Herstory As History : A New Field Or Another Fad? / Sheila Ryan Johansson. Edited By Berenice A. Carroll. Includes Bibliographical References.