HIST 700 - Theory and Methods in Historical Research Assignment

Assignment Task

Question

Drawing on the readings below, critically discuss how the paradigms of gender, race, and class have shifted “silenced” and marginalized narratives, voices, and experiences of women from the margins to the centre of historical writing.

Required Reading List: Please do all the readings:

1. J. Meyerowitz, “A History of “Gender”, The American Historical Review, Vol. 113, No. 5 (Dec., 2008), pp. 1346-1356.

2. L.L. Downs, |Gender History, cultural history and the history of masculinity”, Chapter 3 in Writing Gender History, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010.

3. J.W. Scott, “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” in Feminism and History, 152-175.

4. R. Morrell, “Of Boys and Men: Masculinity and Gender in Southern African Studies”, Journal of Southern African Studies 24, no. 4 (1998), 605-630.

5. Robert Morrell, and Sandra Swart, (2005) “Men in the Third World: Postcolonial Perspectives on Masculinity‟ in M. Kimmel, J. Hearn, and R.W. Connell (eds) Handbook on Studies of Men and Masculinities. London: Sage Publications

6. John Tosh, “What should historians Do with Masculinity? Reflections on Nineteenth century- Britain, History Workshop, 38(1994):179-202

7. Raymond Suttner, “Nelson Mandela’s masculinities’, African Identities, vol. 12 (3-4), 2014: 342-356 8.Jordana Silverstein, `Intersectionality, Resistance and History-Making’ Lilith, A Feminist History Journal, 23, 2017: 15-22.

9. K. Crenshaw, `Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence against Women of Color, Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1991:1241-1299.

10. Chandra Talpade Mohanty “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses” Boundary 2, vol. 12/13, vol. 12, pp.333-358

11. Chandra Mohanty Talpade, “Under Western Eyes” Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles Author(s): Chandra Talpade Mohanty Source: Signs, Vol. 28, No. 2 (Winter 2003), pp. 499-535

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