With the following chapters: I Accepting, tolerating, discriminating - the concepts of discrimination and tolerance: II Institutions, discrimination and tolerance: III Religious discrimination and tolerance: IV Discrimination and tolerance in history and remembrance: V Maintaining discrimination or fostering tolernace?: VI Ethnic and linguistic discrimination and tolerance: VII Tolerance and discrimination: minorities, exiles and migration. In 'Tolerance and discrimination in the field of women's and gender history' the value of the concepts 'tolerance' and 'discrimination' for historical research in women's and gender history are explored.
The articles in this special issue are drawn from some of the contributions to a conference held at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, from 29 August to 1 September 2013 titled ‘Women's Histories: the local and the global’. The articles reflect on diverse aspects of the entangled histories of women across the world, mainly, but not exclusively, during the twentieth century. They explore the range of ways in which women's history, international history, transnational history and imperial and global histories are interwoven.