New edited collection of essays about women’s history methodologies:
Nupur Chaudhuri, Sherry J. Katz, and Mary Elizabeth Perry, eds., Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010).
Global in scope, this volume demonstrates innovative methods of researching diverse women from the sixteenth century to the present in Spain, Mexico, Tunisia, India, Iran, Poland, Mozambique, and the United States. Addressing gender, race, class, nationalism, transnationalism, and migration, these essays' subjects include indigenous women of colonial Mexico, Muslim slave women, African American women of the early twentieth century, Bengali women activists of pre-independence India, wives and daughters of Qajar rulers in Iran, women industrial workers in communist Poland and socialist Mozambique, and women club owners in modern Las Vegas.
Contents
Foreword: “Small Stories” and the Promise of New Narratives vii
Antoinette Burton
Introduction xiii
Nupur Chaudhuri, Sherry J. Katz, and Mary Elizabeth Perry
Part 1. Locating Women in Official Documents
1. Finding Fatima, a Slave Woman of Early Modern Spain 3
Mary Elizabeth Perryv
2. Revealing an Orphan’s Tale from
Nineteenth-Century Mexico 20
Daniel S. Haworth
3. Locating Women as Migrants in
Nineteenth-Century Tunis 35
Julia Clancy-Smith
4. Exploring Crime and Violence in Early-
Twentieth-Century Black Women’s History 56
Kali Nicole Gross
Part 2. Integrating Varied Sources Found Inside
and Outside Official Archives
5. Spinning and Weaving the Threads of Native Women’s
Lives in Colonial Mexico 75
Lisa Sousa
6. Excavating Radical Women in Progressive-Era California 89
Sherry J. Katz
7. Recovering Women’s Voices in Communist Poland 107
Malgorzata Fidelis
8. Archival Thinking and the Wives of Marcus Garvey 125
Ula Y. Taylor
9. Finding an Archive in Krishnobhabini Das’s
Englande Bangamohila 135
Nupur Chaudhuri
10. Uncovering Women and Gender in Qajar Archives of Iran 156
Mansoureh Ettehadieh (Nezam Mafi), Elham Malekzadeh,
Maryam Ameli-Rezaei, and Janet Afary
Part 3. Creating Women’s History Archives
11. Revealing New Narratives of Women in Las Vegas 177
Joanne L. Goodwin
12. Creating an Archive of Working Women’s Oral Histories
in Beira, Mozambique 192
Kathleen Sheldon
Link: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/74dqd4mf9780252035425.html
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