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From History to 'Herstory'

"When women in the movement use herstory, their purpose is to emphasize that women's lives, deeds, and participation in human affairs have been neglected or undervalued in standard histories."
Casey Miller and Kate Swift, Words and Women, New York: Anchor Press, 1976. 
Journal Articles 
Domestic service, gender, and wages in rural England, c.1700–1860
Jacob F. Field
Economic History Review

Feminine Knowledge and Skill Reconsidered: Women and Flaked Stone Tools
Kathryn Weedman Arthur
American Anthropologist

Living the Revolution. Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880–1945 – By Jennifer Guglielmo
Christa Santina Wirth
Working USA

Material Manoeuvers: Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborogh and the Power of Artefacts
Marcia Pointon
Art History

Men, Women and an Integrated History of the Russian Revolutionary Movement
Katy Turton
History Compass

Resting at Creation and Afterlife: Distant Times in the Ordinary Strategies of Muslim Women in the Rural Fouta Djallon, Guinea
Karen Smid
American Ethnologist

Separate Spheres: Analytical Persistence in United States Women's History
Kim Warren
History Compass

Stronger Than we Thought: Revisionist Studies in Women's History
Phyllis Rackin
Renaissance Studies

The Boundaries of Women's Power: Gender and the Discourse of Political Friendship in Twelfth-Century England
Rebecca Slitt
Gender & History

The Politics of Possession: Edwin Long's Babylonian Marriage Market
Imogen Hart
Art History

The State of Chinese Women's History
Rebecca E. Karl
Gender & History

The Women pro-Boers: Gender, Peace and the Critique of Empire in the South African War
Eliza Riedi
Historical Research

Waiting for her ship to come in? The female investor in nineteenth-century sailing vessels
Helen Doe
Economic History Review

Women's Bodies, Women's Minds: One Way of Rethinking Japanese Women's History
Anne Walthall
History Compass




Fair Labor:  The Remarkable Life and Legal Career of Bessie Margolin (1909-1996)
Marlene Trestman
Journal of Supreme Court History

Gender and the Subject of (Anti)Nuclear Politics: Revisiting Women’s Campaigning against the Bomb
Catherine Eschle
International Studies Quarterly

Market wage or discrimination? The remuneration of male and female wool spinners in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic
Elise Van Nederveen Meerkerk
Economic History Review

Mediating Worlds: The Occult as Projection of the New Woman in Weimer Culture
Barbara Hales
The German Quarterly

Rereading the Archives: Uncovering Spaces of Feminist Engagement in IWAC
Elizabeth Youngling, Jamie Arjona, Ofira Fuchs, et al.
American Anthropologist

Rethinking Women and Property in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England
Pamela Hammons
Literature Compass

Service clubs, citizenship and equality: gender relations and middle-class associations in Britain between the wars
Helen McCarthy
Historical Research

The Archives of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Bruce P. Montgomery
Peace & Change

The Gendered Identities of the ‘Lieutenant Nun’: Rethinking the Story of a Female Warrior in Early Modern Spain
Nerea Aresti
Gender & History

The revival of the British women's auxiliary services in the late nineteen-thirties
Jeremy A. Crang
Historical Research

Uneven Orientalisms: Burmese Women and the Feminist Imagination
Lucy Delap
Gender & History

Whatever happened to Miss Bebb? Bebb v The Law Society and women's legal history
Rosemary Auchmuty
Legal Studies

Book Chapters
Cleopatra VII
Manfred Clauss 
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History

Gender, Greek and Roman
Judith P. Hallett
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History
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Women and Medicine
Holt Parker 
A Companion to Women in the Ancient World
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