Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources

by Mary Perry, Sherry J. Katz, Antoinette Burton

Book Overview

The contributors of Contesting Archives challenge the assumption that an archive is a neutral, immutable, and a historical repository of information. Instead, these historians view it as a place where decisions are made about whose documents--and therefore whose history--is important. Finding that women's voices and their texts were often obscured or lost altogether, they have developed many new methodologies for creating unique archives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252035429
• ISBN13: 9780252035425
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"