- Title Pages
- A Prefatory and Introductory Note
-
1 A Look at Terms and Issues -
2 An Adversarial Image of Modernity -
3 The Postmodern Moment -
4 At the Core of the Postmodernist Challenge to History -
5 Two Versions of the Postmodernist Future -
6 The Project of a Postmodernist Theory of History -
7 Postmodernism's Emergence in an Unlikely Setting -
8 An Early Redefinition of Progress's Destination -
9 Views with Postmodernist Affinities -
10 The First Twentieth-Century Postmodernist: Alexandre Kojève -
11 The Flourishing of Structural Postmodernism (1945–65) -
12 The Fading of Structural Postmodernism and a Triumphal Exception: Francis Fukuyama -
13 Insights and Problems -
14 A Prelude to Poststructuralist Postmodernism -
15 Narrativist History in the Poststructuralist Mode -
16 In the Eye of the Storm: The Poststructuralist Postmodernist Concept of Truth -
17 The Metanarrative Controversy -
18 Poststructuralist Postmodernists on the Individual and the Utility of History -
19 What Kind of Marxism in Postmodernity? -
20 Postmodernism and Feminist History -
Part 5 Concluding Observations - Select Bibliography
- General Works
- Publications Focusing On Structural Postmodernism
- Publications Concerning Poststructuralist Postmodernism
- Poststructuralist Postmodernism: Spur to the New and Challenge to the Established in History
- Index
Postmodernism and Feminist History
Postmodernism and Feminist History
- Chapter:
- 20 Postmodernism and Feminist History
- Source:
- On the Future of History
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
Judged by the standards of contributions to historical knowledge and to the women's cause, women's history proved to be abundantly successful. Yet some women's historians experienced a distinct sense of unease in the midst of this success. By the late 1980s, with women's history widely accepted as an essential part of historiography, questions emerged concerning basic concepts and interpretations. They did so in an intellectual climate that had its origin in the social and cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s and, in the 1980s, was powerfully reshaped by postmodernism. The climate was marked by a strong animus against the Enlightenment and its understanding of the role of reason and progress and affected many of progressive history's key elements, which had been tightly woven into women's history.
Keywords: postmodernism, feminist history, historical knowledge, historiography, Enlightenment, social upheavals
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- Title Pages
- A Prefatory and Introductory Note
-
1 A Look at Terms and Issues -
2 An Adversarial Image of Modernity -
3 The Postmodern Moment -
4 At the Core of the Postmodernist Challenge to History -
5 Two Versions of the Postmodernist Future -
6 The Project of a Postmodernist Theory of History -
7 Postmodernism's Emergence in an Unlikely Setting -
8 An Early Redefinition of Progress's Destination -
9 Views with Postmodernist Affinities -
10 The First Twentieth-Century Postmodernist: Alexandre Kojève -
11 The Flourishing of Structural Postmodernism (1945–65) -
12 The Fading of Structural Postmodernism and a Triumphal Exception: Francis Fukuyama -
13 Insights and Problems -
14 A Prelude to Poststructuralist Postmodernism -
15 Narrativist History in the Poststructuralist Mode -
16 In the Eye of the Storm: The Poststructuralist Postmodernist Concept of Truth -
17 The Metanarrative Controversy -
18 Poststructuralist Postmodernists on the Individual and the Utility of History -
19 What Kind of Marxism in Postmodernity? -
20 Postmodernism and Feminist History -
Part 5 Concluding Observations - Select Bibliography
- General Works
- Publications Focusing On Structural Postmodernism
- Publications Concerning Poststructuralist Postmodernism
- Poststructuralist Postmodernism: Spur to the New and Challenge to the Established in History
- Index
