Contesting archives : finding women in the sources / edited by Nupur Chaudhuri, Sherry J. Katz, and Mary Elizabeth Perry ; foreword by Antoinette Burton. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010. - xxiv, 223 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Finding Fatima, a slave woman of early modern Spain / Mary Elizabeth Perry -- Revealing an orphan's tale from nineteenth-century Mexico / Daniel S. Haworth -- Locating women as migrants in nineteenth-century Tunis / Julia Clancy-Smith -- Exploring crime and violence in early-twentieth-century Black women's history / Kali Nicole Gross -- Spinning and weaving the threads of Native women's lives in colonial Mexico / Lisa Sousa -- Excavating radical women in Progressive-Era California / Sherry J. Katz -- Recovering women's voices in communist Poland / Malgorzata Fidelis -- Archival thinking and the wives of Marcus Garvey / Ula Y. Taylor -- Finding an archive in Krishnobhabini Das's Englande Bangamohila / Nupur Chaudhuri -- Uncovering women and gender in Qajar archives of Iran / Mansoureh Ettehadieh (Nezam Mafi) ... [et al.] -- Revealing new narratives of women in Las Vegas / Joanne L. Goodwin -- Creating an archive of working women's oral histories in Beira, Mozambique / Kathleen Sheldon.

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Women--Historiography.

HQ1121 / .C63815 2010

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