Histories, herstories

Kath Woodward and Sophie Woodward

Chapter 4 in Gender Studies, 2025, pp 63-83 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter develops and explores the feminist argument that history has been written in ways to make women's contributions invisible, as well as obscuring the social, cultural and economic conditions that have limited the possibilities of women's lives. We explore this through multiple different disciplinary trajectories, by looking at history itself, scientific disciplines, psychology, psychoanalysis and sociology. By tracing the gendered trajectories of different disciplines, we aim to explore how this gendering of disciplines emerges in different ways but also to consider some of the commonalities in how gendered inequalities persist within disciplines. We connect this explicitly to the ways in which knowledge is produced. One route through which we do this is by seeking to connect the personal and the political, through the life of Evelyn Fox Keller, and also that of Luce Irigaray. We consider both knowledge production within disciplines and how this has impacted on gender participation in these disciplines, with a focus upon methodological routes through which these knowledges are generated. We explore the methods of oral histories (Summerfield) as well as citation practices (Hemmings, Ahmed) to think about how feminist histories and key thinkers can be made explicitly visible as part of an intellectual trajectory and history. These issues are particularly marked for marginalised women, as we explore ways in which narrative and intersectional approaches which can create spaces for experiences and contributions that have been particularly excluded.

Keywords: Oral history; Irigaray; Fox Keller; Sociology; Activism; Narrative methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781800373945
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