Year: 2000
Type: article
Abstract: This special issue on women's history is an exciting development for Atlantis. For many women's historians, however, it may be the first issue they have read in many years, or for some younger scholars, the first time they have ever looked at the journal. While Atlantis has recently published some women's history articles, it was mainly in the 1970s and early 1980s that it existed as an important venue for publishing women's history. After this period the journal tended to focus primarily on other forms of feminist scholarship and creative work. This pattern is not unique to Atlantis but reflects the changing relationship between women's studies and women's history in Canada. As two scholars trained in women's history, one of whom teaches in a women's studies department and increasingly defines herself in that context, while the other remains within history with only very occasional forays into women's studies, we wanted to explore this relationship. Thus, we organized a roundtable on the subject (co-sponsored by the
Authors: Karen Flynn, Nancy Forestell, Cathy James, Isabelle Lehuu, Annalee Lepp, Lynne Marks, Kathryn McPherson, Georgia Sitara, Cynthia Wright
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Gender equality
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1496023403