History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism

by Judith M. Bennett

Book Overview

Written for everyone interested in women's and gender history, History matters reaffirms the importance to feminist theory and activism of long-term historical perspectives. Judith M. Bennett takes as her central problem the growing chasm between feminism and history which, although closely allied in the 1970s, have now moved away from one another. Seeking to narrow this gap, Bennett proposes that feminist historians turn their attention to the intellectual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719075653
• ISBN13: 9780719075650
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"