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Gender and technology in the East Midlands boot and shoe industry : 1850-1911

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Greenfield, Jill (1998) Gender and technology in the East Midlands boot and shoe industry : 1850-1911. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

Many scholars now consider that gender is an important category in historical study,
but unfortunately many do not practice what they preach. Feminists have recognised
for some time the importance of some form of historical analysis to feminism, or at
least what Judith Allen calls 'a historically grounded feminism'. The protagonists in
the debate disagree considerably, however, over the methodology which feminist
historians should adopt. The various positions taken up have led to a schism between
those who believe the feminist challenge to mainstream, or what Elizabeth Fox-
Genovese calls 'official' history, should be mounted from within the discipline of
history or from outside it. Judith Allen claims that the work which has been done in
women's history to date serves to raise considerable doubt that accepting the
discipline of history as presently constituted is a viable option for feminism. She sees
the phallocentric characteristics of history as an obstacle to feminists using history.
Allen feels that 'no less than Marxism, feminism is opposed by professional historians
as an ahistorical grid of abstraction and prescription, threatening the integrity of the
historical evidence.'

Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Women shoe industry workers -- England -- East Midlands -- History -- 19th century, Shoe industry -- England -- East Midlands -- History -- 19th century, Shoe industry -- Technological innovations -- History -- 19th century, Sex role in the work environment -- England -- East Midlands -- History -- 19th century
Official Date: March 1998
Dates:
DateEvent
March 1998Submitted
Institution: University of Warwick
Theses Department: Centre for the Study of Women and Gender
Thesis Type: PhD
Publication Status: Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: Berg, Maxine, 1950-
Extent: vi, 245 leaves
Language: eng

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