Research Methods for History
Research Methods for History

Author: Lucy Faire

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2016-07-08

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1474408745

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Historians have become increasingly sensitive to social and cultural theory since the 1980s, yet the actual methods by which research is carried out in History have been largely taken for granted. Research Methods for History encourages those researching the past to think creatively about the wide range of methods currently in use, to understand how these methods are used and what historical insights they can provide. This updated new edition has been expanded to cover not only sources and methods that are well-established in History, such as archival research, but also those that have developed recently, such as the impact of digital history research. The themes of the different chapters have been selected to reflect new trends in the subject, including landscape studies, material culture and ethics. Every chapter presents new insights and perspectives and will open researchers minds to the expanding possibilities of historical research.

Introduction To Library Research In Women's Studies
Introduction To Library Research In Women's Studies

Author: Susan E. Searing

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-02-26

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 0429716133

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This annotated bibliography evaluates the traditional reference aids available in most college libraries in terms of their usefulness in women's studies research, highlighting issues and problems of central concern to researchers in women's studies.

The Challenge of Feminist Biography
The Challenge of Feminist Biography

Author: Sara Alpern

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780252062926

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This path-breaking anthology illuminates the lives of ten influential twentieth-century American women and looks at the challenges experienced by the women who have written about them. Exploring the frequently complicated dialogue between writer and subject, the contributors discuss tools appropriate to writing women's biography while their riveting accounts reveal how feminist scholarship led them to approach the study of women's lives in unconventional ways. "This wonderful collection demonstrates the significance of women's biography as a central part of feminist scholarship. The feminist biographer inserts a second life into a biography, her own, giving us yet another layer of depth and insight."--Ann J. Lane, author of To "Herland" and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman