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Women’s History in France: An Ill‐Defined Subject
Author(s) -
RiotSarcey Michèle
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
gender and history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-0424
pISSN - 0953-5233
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0424.00042
Subject(s) - historicity (philosophy) , subject (documents) , mainstream , representation (politics) , power (physics) , history , gender studies , epistemology , sociology , computer science , political science , law , philosophy , politics , physics , quantum mechanics , library science
As a new approach and subject, women’s history in France is ill‐defined as an academic category and remains on the margins of mainstream history. The concept of gender , a necessary analytical tool, cannot in itself suffice; the historicity of the tensions between men and women must be restored. At stake is the tension between a continuous linear history and the historical discontinuities which arise in its gaps and flaws, the tension between female individuals [ individues ] who, as objects of representation, are taken to be representative of their sex, and critical subjects who confront representation as a form of power.