TY - JOUR
AU - McBride, Theresa M.
AB - 202 journal of social history fall 2002 of economic dislocation and burgeoning laissez-faire in those words are muted in this analysis. Prints would have brightened the presentation and a map of the city would have been an aid to newcomers to revolutionary Paris. But throughout, the writing is never dry. In this evocative account which actively engages the his, toriography and is based upon thorough archival research, the individuals who made up the Parisian crowds of 1791 are enlivened. University of Southern Indiana Casey Harison The Gender of History: Men, Women, and the Historical Practice. By Bonnie G. Smith (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1998. viii plus 306pp. $17.95/paperback). The Rise of the Professional Woman in France: Gender and Public Adminis ... tration Since 1830. By Linda L. Clark (Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. xiv plus 324pp. $64.95/cloth) Bonnie Smith begins her investigation into "the gender of history" with the metaphor of the mirror [pp. 2-3]. "Held up to the past, the mirror supposedly reflects bygone events more accurately than any other tool, showing nothing fanciful or imaginary." The image of the mirror's pure objectivity contradicts what we understand of the way history is 
TI - The Gender of History: Men, Women, and the Historical Practice. By Bonnie G. Smith and The Rise of the Professional Woman in France: Gender and Public Administration Since 1830. By Linda L. Clark
JO - Journal of Social History
DO - 10.1353/jsh.2002.0093
DA - 2002-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-gender-of-history-men-women-and-the-historical-practice-by-bonnie-GFtSZ3Z3Gs
SP - 202
EP - 207
VL - 36
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -