La Historia del Feminismo

Abstract

This article traces the development of women’s history in the US. It links the main issues of debate to the activism and demands of the academic historians. Its main contribution is to emphasize how the historical themes relevant to women’s history had a decisive impact on the perspective of the discipline as such. Thus it relates feminist perspectives on women’s history and its links and connections with social history, cultural history, and how the new historical perspectives that feminist women’s history unveiled gave birth to such key analytical concepts as queer studies, postcolonial, transnational and global, most of which are now widely used both in history as in all of the other social sciences disciplines. It reiterates the basic contribution of the discipline: the ever changing historical interpretation as well recognized the multiple causes of historical development. Finally it traces an agenda for future feminist historical research and envisions the multiple and challenging surprises of new questions and perspectives.