Inspired by the Periodic Table of chemical elements, published by chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, the Periodic Table of Feminism applies scientific logic to the history of feminism around the world. In this guide like-minded women are grouped by the nature of their activism and their approach to the women's movement. Through the table you will see how women's ideas spoke to one another and connected with each other, across countries, ideologies, generations and waves. With illustrations and quotes. .Contents: How the table works : Proto-feminists : The first wave : Epic marches : The second wave : Fictional feminists : Inspirational creatives : The third wave : Political leaders : The fourth wave : Male allies.
This study traces the history of women's historical writing, reclaiming the lives of individual women historians, recovering women's historical writings from the past and focusing on how gender has shaped the genre of history. Spongberg brings together an extensive survey of the progress of women's historical writing from the Renaissance to the present, demonstrating the continuities between women's historical writings in the past and the development of a distinctly woman-centred historiography.