Feminist Historiography 1968-1993 a bibliography compiled by Georgia NeSmith copyright 1994* This bibliography is fairly comprehensive, particularly for the historiographical literature of American women's history published from 1968 to 1991. There are probably more than a few citations missing, particularly for the years 1992-1993. For the purposes of this bibliography, the term "feminist historiography" is limited to literature that consciously reflects upon the writing of history from a feminist standpoint. The bibliography is organized chronologically by year of publication in order to show the evolution of feminist thinking about historiography. Some of these articles exist in several locations published at different times, and every effort has been made to identify all of the locations. *Permission to duplicate this bibliography in its entirety is granted to all provided that credit is given to the compiler. 1968-1979 1968 Kraditor, Aileen S. "Up From the Pedestal," in Hogeland, Ronald W. and Aileen S. Kraditor,ed., WOMEN AND WOMANHOOD IN AMERICA. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath and Company, 3- 14. Also in UP FROM THE PEDESTAL: SELECTED WRITINGS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN FEMINISM. New York: Quadrangle, 1973. 1969 Lerner, Gerda. "New Approaches to the Study of Women in American History," JOURNAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY 4(4): 33-56. Also in Berenice A. Carroll, ed., LIBERATING WOMEN'S HISTORY: THEORETICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAYS. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1976, 26-41. Also in Gerda Lerner, THE MAJORITY FINDS ITS PAST: PLACING WOMEN IN HISTORY. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. Also published in Aileen S. Kraditor, ed., UP FROM THE PEDESTAL: SELECTED WRITINGS IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN FEMINISM. New York: Quadrangle, 1973, 15-27. 1971 Banner, Lois W. "On Writing Women's History." JOURNAL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY HISTORY 2:2 :347-58. 1971 Gordon, Ann D. Mari Jo Buhle, and Nancy Schrom Dye. "The Problem of Women's History," in Bernice A. Carroll, ed., LIBERATING WOMEN'S HISTORY: THEORETICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAYS, 75-92. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press. Originally published in RADICAL AMERICA 5:4 (July- August 1971) as "Women in American Society: An Historiographical Contribution." 1971 Rosen, Ruth. "Sexism in History or, Writing Women's History is a Tricky Business," JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND THE FAMILY 33 (3):541-544. 1971 Trecker, Janice Law. "Women in U.S. History High School Textbooks," SOCIAL EDUCATION 35:3 (March). 1972 Carroll, Bernice A. "Mary Beard's WOMAN AS A FORCE IN HISTORY: a Critique," Berenice A. Carroll, ed., LIBERATING WOMEN'S HISTORY: THEORETICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAYS. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 26- 41. Originally published in the MASSACHUSSETTS REVIEW in 1972. 1972 Gordon, Linda; Persis Hunt, Elizabeth Pleck, Rochelle Goldberg Ruthchild, and Marcia Scott. "Historical Phallacies: Sexism in American Historical Writing," in LIBERATING WOMEN'S HISTORY: THEORETICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAYS, 55-74. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press. Originally published in WOMEN'S STUDIES 1:1. 1973 Hogeland, Ronald W. and Aileen S. Kraditor, ed. WOMEN AND WOMANHOOD IN AMERICA. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath and Company. 1973 Johansson, Sheila Ryan. "'Herstory' as History: a New Field or Another Fad?" in Berenice A. Carroll, ed., LIBERATING WOMEN'S HISTORY: THEORETICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAYS. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 400- 430. 1973 Rossi, Alice S. "Feminist History in Perspective: Sociological Contributions to Biographic Analysis," in A SAMPLER OF WOMEN'S STUDIES, ed. Dorothy Gies McGuigan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Centery for Continuing Education of Women, 85-108. 1973 Schmidt, Dolores Barracano and Earl Robert Schmidt, "The Invisible Woman: The Historian as Professional Magician," in Berenice A. Carroll, ed., LIBERATING WOMEN'S HISTORY: THEORETICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAYS. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press. 1976, 42-54. Originally published in Ann Forfreedom, ed. WOMEN OUT OF HISTORY: A Herstory Anthology. Los Angeles: Forfreedom. 1973 Scott, Anne F. "Women in American Life," in William H. Cartwright and Richard L. Watson, Jr., eds, THE REINTERPRETATION OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE. Washington, D.C.: National Council for the Social Studies. 1974 Hartman, Mary S. "Preface," in Hartman, Mary S. and Lois Banner, ed., CLIO'S CONSCIOUSNESS RAISED: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE HISTORY OF WOMEN. New York: Harper, vii-xii. 1974 Marzolf, Marion; Ramona R. Rush, and Darlene Stern. "The Literature of Women in Journalism History." JOURNALISM HISTORY 1:117-28. 1974 Rowbotham, Sheila. HIDDEN FROM HISTORY: REDISCOVERING WOMEN IN HISTORY FROM THE 17TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT. New York: Pantheon Books. 1975 Degler, Carl N. IS THERE A HISTORY OF WOMEN? Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1975 Lerner, Gerda. "Placing Women in History: a 1975 Perspective," in Berenice A. Carroll, ed., LIBERATING WOMEN'S HISTORY: THEORETICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAYS. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 357-367. Originally published in FEMINIST STUDIES 3(1/2): 5-15. Also published in Gerda Lerner, THE MAJORITY FINDS ITS PAST: PLACING WOMEN IN HISTORY. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979. 1975 Sicherman, Barbara. "American History." SIGNS: JOURNAL OF WOMEN IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY 1(2):461-485. 1975 Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. "The New Woman and the New History." FEMINIST STUDIES 3(1/2):171-98. 1976 Carroll, Berenice A., ed. LIBERATING WOMEN'S HISTORY: THEORETICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAYS. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press. 1976 Davis, Natalie Zemon. "'Women's HIstory' in Transition: the European Case," FEMINIST STUDIES 3(3/4):83-103. 1976 Deutrich, Mabel E. "Introduction," in Deutrich, Mabel E. and Virginia C. Purdy, eds., CLIO WAS A WOMAN: STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN. Washington D.C.: Howard University Press, 1980 [1976]. 1976 Kelly-Gadol, Joan. "The Social Relation of the Sexes: Methodological Implications of Women's History." SIGNS: JOURNAL OF WOMEN IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY 1(4):809-23. 1976 Marzolf, Marion. "The Literature of Women in Journalism History: A Supplement." JOURNALISM HISTORY 3:116-20. 1976 Ryan, Mary P., "Retrospect and Prospect," in Deutrich, Mabel E. and Virginia C. Purdy, eds. CLIO WAS A WOMAN: STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN. Washington D.C.: Howard University Press, 1976, 307-319. 1976 Scott, Anne F., and William H. Chafe, "What We Wish We Knew about Women: A Dialogue," in Deutrich, Mabel E. and Virginia C. Purdy, eds. CLIO WAS A WOMAN: STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN. Washington D.C.: Howard University Press. 1976 Smith, Hilda. "Feminism and the Methodology of Women's History," in Berenice A. Carroll, ed., LIBERATING WOMEN'S HISTORY: THEORETICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAYS. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 368-384. 1978 Gordon, Linda. "What Should Women's Historians Do? Politics, Social Theory, and Women's History," MARXIST PERSPECTIVES 1(Fall): 131-32. 1979 Cott, Nancy. "Introduction," in Cott, Nancy, ed., A HERITAGE OF HER OWN: TOWARD A NEW SOCIAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN. New York: Simon and Schuster, 9-24. 1979 Kelly, Joan. "The Doubled Vision of Feminist Theory: A Postscript to the 'Women and Power' Conference." FEMINIST STUDIES 5:1 (Spring):216-227. 1979 Lerner, Gerda. THE MAJORITY FINDS ITS PAST: PLACING WOMEN IN HISTORY. New York: Oxford University Press. 1979 Reimer, Eleanor S., and John C. Fout. "Women's History: Recent Journal Articles," TRENDS IN HISTORY 1(1):3-22. 1979 Scott, Ann F. "Woman's Place Is in the History Books," in MAKING THE INVISIBLE WOMAN VISIBLE. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois, 361-370. Opening lecture for summer seminar for college teachers in American History presented in 1979. 1980-1989 1980 Sicherman, Barbara; William E. Monter; Joan W. Scott, and Katherine Sklar RECENT U.S. SCHOLARSHIP ON THE HISTORY OF WOMEN. Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association. 1981 Covert, Catherine L. "Journalism History and Women's Experience: A Problem in Conceptual Change." JOURNALISM HISTORY 8:1 (Spring):2-5. 1981 Summer Institute on Women in American History. 1981 WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HISTORY BOOKS, HER STORY: 1620-1980, A CURRICULUM GUIDE FOR AMERICAN HISTORY TEACHERS. Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. 1982 Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. "Placing Women's History in History," NEW LEFT REVIEW 33:5-29. 1982 Lerner, Gerda. "The Necessity of History and the Professional Historian." JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY 69 (June):7-20. 1983 Scott, Joan W. "Women in History: the Modern Period," PAST AND PRESENT 191 (November):125-57. Revised version published 1987 in Christine Farnham, ed., THE IMPACT OF FEMINIST RESEARCH ON THE ACADEMY. Bloomington, Ind.: University of Indiana Press, 34-52; and in 1988 in Scott, Joan W., GENDER AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY. New York: Columbia University Press. 1984 Kelly, Joan. WOMEN, HISTORY AND THEORY: THE ESSAYS OF JOAN KELLY. Chicago: Chicago University Press. 1985 Banner, Lois W. "Women's History in the United States: Recent Theory and Practice," in Katz, Esther, ed., "Recent Work in Women's History East and West." Special issue of TRENDS IN HISTORY 4:1, 93-122. 1985 Carby, Hazel V. "'On the Threshold of Woman's Era:: Lynching, Empire, and Sexuality in Black Feminist Theory. CRITICAL INQUIRY: 12 (Autumn):262-277. 1985 Hewitt, Nancy A. "Beyond the Search for Sisterhood: American Women's History in the 1980s," SOCIAL HISTORY 10(3):299-321. 1985 Katz, Esther, ed. "Recent Work in Women's History East and West." Special issue of TRENDS IN HISTORY 4:1. 1985 Smith, Hilda "Female Bonds and the Family: Recent Directions in Women's History," in Paula A. Treichler, Cheris Kramarae, and Beth Stafford, eds., FOR ALMA MATER: THEORY AND PRACTICE IN FEMINIST SCHOLARSHIP, Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 271-291. 1985 Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. "Hearing Women's Words: A Feminist Reconstruction of History," in DISORDERLY CONDUCT: VISIONS OF GENDER IN VICTORIAN AMERICA. New York: Oxford University Press, 11-52. 1986 Bonnet, Marie-Jo "Farewell to History." in Friedlander, Judith; Cook, Blanch Wiesen; Kessler-Harris, Alice; Smith- Rosenberg, Carol; eds. WOMEN IN CULTURE AND POLITICS: A CENTURY OF CHANGE. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 121-147. 1986 Kerber, Linda K. "Some Cautionary Words for Historians," in Kerber, Catherine G. Greeno, Eleanor E. Maccoby, Zella Luria, Carol B. Stack, and Carol Gilligan, "On IN A DIFFERENT VOICE: An Interdisciplinary Forum," SIGNS: JOURNAL OF WOMEN IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY 11(2):305-316. 1986 Nicholson, Linda J. GENDER AND HISTORY: THE LIMITS OF SOCIAL THEORY IN THE AGE OF THE FAMILY. New York: Columbia University Press. 1986 Scott, Joan W. "Gender: A Usefeul Category of Analysis." AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 91:5 (December). Reprinted in Scott 1988. 1986 Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. "Writing History: Language, Class, and Gender," in Teresa de Lauretis, ed., FEMINIST STUDIES/CRITICAL STUDIES. Bloomington, Ind: Indiana University Press, 32-54. 1986 Gordon, Linda. "What's New in Women's History," in DeLauretis, Theresa, ed., FEMINIST STUDIES/CRITICAL STUDIES. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 55-66. 1986 Smith-Rosenberg, Carroll. "Writing History: Language, Class, and Gender," in DeLauretis, Theresa, ed., FEMINIST STUDIES/CRITICAL STUDIES. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 32-54. 1987 Gottlieb, Roger S. "Socialist Feminism," Chapter 9 in HISTORY AND SUBJECTIVITY: THE TRANSFORMATION OF MARXIST THEORY. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 124-152. 1987 Scott, Joan W "Women's History and the Rewriting of History," in Christine Farnham, ed., THE IMPACT OF FEMINIST RESEARCH ON THE ACADEMY. Bloomington, Ind.: University of Indiana Press, 34-52. Revised version of Scott's essay in PAST AND PRESENT, reprinted in GENDER AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY. 1988 Fisher, Berenice. "Wandering in the Wilderness: The Search for Women Role Models," SIGNS: JOURNAL OF WOMEN IN CULTURE AND SOCIETY 13(2):211-233. 1988 Grosholz, Emily. "Women, History, and Practical Deliberation," in Mary Gergen, ed., FEMINIST THOUGHT AND THE STRUCTURE OF KNOWLEDGE. New York: New York University Press, 173-181. 1988 Kerber, Linda K. "Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman's Place: The Rhetoric of Women's History," JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY 75(1):9-39. 1988 Novick, Peter. 1988. "Every Group Its Own Historian," Chapter 14 of THAT NOBLE DREAM: THE 'OBJECTIVITY QUESTION' AND THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL PROFESSION. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1988 Riley, Denise. 'AM I THAT NAME?': FEMINISM AND THE CATEGORY OF 'WOMEN' IN HISTORY. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press. 1988 Scott, Joan W. GENDER AND THE POLITICS OF HISTORY. New York: Columbia University Press. 1989 Bennet, Judith M. "Feminism and History," GENDER AND HISTORY 1(3):251-272. 1989 Bock, Gisela. "Women's History and Gender History: Aspects of an International Debate," GENDER AND HISTORY 1(1):7-30. 1989 Editorial Collective. "Why Gender and History," GENDER AND HISTORY 1(1):1-6. 1989 Henry, Susan. "Changing Media History Through Women's History," in WOMEN IN MASS COMMUNICATION: CHALLENGING GENDER VALUES, Pamela E.Creedon, ed. Newberry Park, Ca.: Sage. 1989 Lavrin, Asuncion "Comments on Sharon Sievers' "Six (Or More) Feminists in Search of a Historian," JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY 1(2):153-157. 1989 Marks, Shula. "The Context of Personal Narrative: Reflections on 'NOT EITHER AN EXPERIMENTAL DOLL' -- THE SEPARATE WORLDS OF THREE SOUTH AFRICAN WOMEN, in INTERPRETING WOMEN'S LIVES: FEMINIST THEORY AND PERSONAL NARRATIVES. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. (Note: Internality/Externality of experience: history from the in/outside. 1989 Personal Narratives Group, ed. INTERPRETING WOMEN'S LIVES: FEMINIST THEORY AND PERSONAL NARRATIVES. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 1989 Sievers, Sharon "Dialogue: Six (Or More) Feminists in Search of a Historian," JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY 1(2):135-152. 1989 Walkowitz, Judith; Myra Jehlen, and Bell Chevigny. "Patrolling the Borders: Feminist Historiography and the New Historicism," RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW 43, 23-43. 1989. Scott, Joan W. "History in Crisis? The Others' Side of the Story," AMERICAN HISTORY REVIEW 94(3):680-692. 1990-1993 1990 Alexander, Ziggy. "Let it Lie Upon the Table: The Status of Black Women's Biography in the UK." GENDER AND HISTORY 2(1), 22-33. 1990 Barry, Kathleen. "The New Historical Synthesis: Women's Biography," JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY 1:3 (Winter):75- 105. 1990 Beasley, Maurine.1990. "Women in Journalism: Contributors to Male Experience or Voices of Feminine Expression?" AMERICAN JOURNALISM 7:1 (Winter):39-54. 1990 Diamond, Irene and Lisa Kuppler. "Frontiers of the Imagination: Women, History, and Nature," JOURNAL OF WOMENS HISTORY 1(3):160-179. 1990 Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. "Between Individualism and Fragmentation: American Culture and the New Literary Studies of Race and Gender," AMERICAN QUARTERLY 42(1):7-34. 1990 Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. FEMINISM WITHOUT ILLUSIONS: A CRITIQUE OF INDIVIDUALISM. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1990 Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth. "Socialist-Feminist American Women's History: A Review Essay." JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY 1:3 (Winter):181--210. 1990 Hoff-Wilson, Joan and Christine Farnham. "Theories about the End of Everything (Editors' Note)," JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY 1(3):6-11. 1990 Lerner, Gerda. "Reconceptualizing Differences Among Women," JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S HISTORY 1(3):106-121. 1990 Mitchell, Catherine C. "The Place of Biography in the History of News Women." AMERICAN JOURNALISM 7:1 (Winter):23-31. 1991 Bock, Gisela. "Challenging Dichotomies: Perspectives on Women's History," in Offen, Karin; Ruth Roach Pierson; and Jane Rendall, eds. WRITING WOMEN'S HISTORY: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1-24. 1991 Morton, Patricia. DISFIGURED IMAGES: THE HISTORICAL ASSAULT ON AFRO-AMERICAN WOMEN. New York: Praeger. 1991 Offen, Karin; Ruth Roach Pierson; and Jane Rendall, eds. WRITING WOMEN'S HISTORY: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press. 1991 Rendall, Jane. "Uneven Developments: Women's History, Feminist History, and Gender History in Great Britain," in Offen, Karin; Ruth Roach Pierson; and Jane Rendall, eds., WRITING WOMEN'S HISTORY: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 45-58. 1991 Stock-Morton, Phyllis. "Finding Our Own Ways: Different Paths to Women's History in the United States," in Offen, Karin; Ruth Roach Pierson; and Jane Rendall, eds., WRITING WOMEN'S HISTORY: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 59-78. 1993 Hennessy, Rosemary. MATERIALIST FEMINIS AND THE POLITICS OF DISCOURSE. New York: Routledge. 1993. Zinsser, Judith P. HISTORY AND FEMINISM: A GLASS HALF FULL. New York: Twayne.