Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Hardly any Women at all?: Women Writers and the Gender of History PART ONE: Men's History The Classical Inheritance All Histories are against You: Women and the History Men PART TWO: Women's History Above their Sex? Women's History 'before' Feminism History's Romantic Heroines: Women's History and Revolutionary Feminism Heroines of Domestic Life: Women's History and Female Biography Women's History and the 'Woman Question' Amateurs or Professionals?: Women's History in the Academy Clio's Consciousness Raised?: Women's Liberation and Women's History Liberating Women's History?: Feminism and the Reconstruction of History Surpassing the History of Men: Women's History and Lesbian History Conclusion: Dealing with Difference? Endnotes Index.

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Mary Spongberg is the author of "Feminizing Venereal Disease" (Macmillan, 1997), which was short-listed for the Premier's History Prize.

About the Author

MARY SPONGBERG is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She is the author of Feminizing Venereal Disease (Macmillan, 1997), which was short-listed for the Premier's History Prize.

Reviews

'Greatly expands our understanding both of the history of women's writing - and of the nature of the development of history.' - Professor Barbara Caine, Monash University, Australia 'No other survey of women as writers of history. Valuable for courses on women's history and for general courses on historiography and historical method.' - Professor Pat Thane, Institute of Historical Research, London