The 'unseamed picture': conflicting narratives of women in the modern European past

Abrams, L. (2008) The 'unseamed picture': conflicting narratives of women in the modern European past. Gender and History, 20(3), pp. 628-643. (doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2008.00540.x)

Abstract

This article arises from a personal journey through writing the history of women and gender in modern Europe. Other historians of Europe will no doubt recognise my experience of being pulled in different directions, between the general and the particular, the overarching interpretation and the closely researched case study, because it is part and parcel of being a 'Europeanist' someone with expertise in one part of the continent who is then almost honour-bound to be able to write about Europe as a whole, a task becoming increasingly difficult, maybe impossible, in view of the changing boundaries of Europe in modern geopolitics.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Abrams, Professor Lynn
• Authors: Abrams, L.
• Subjects: H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman; D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D901 Europe (General)
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > History
• Journal Name: Gender and History
• Publisher: Blackwell
• ISSN: 0953-5233
• First Published: First published in Gender and History 20(3):628-643
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