1. Gerda Lerner, ‘New Approaches to the Study of Women in History’ (1969), in The Majority Finds its Past (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), p. 3.
2. Sherry Ortner, ‘Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?’, in Michelle Z. Rosaldo and Louise Lamphere (eds.), Woman, Culture and Society (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1974), p. 72
3. See Gianna Pomata, ‘La storia delle donne: una question di confine [The History of Women: A Question of Boundaries]’, in Giovanni de Luna et al. (eds.), Il mondo contemporaneo: Gli strumenti della ricerca, II (Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1983), pp. 1434–69
4. Marilyn Strathern (ed.), Dealing with Inequality: Analysing Gender Relations in Melanesia and Beyond (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
5. Yvonne Knibiehler, L’histoire des mères du moyen-âge it nos jours (Paris: Edition Montalba, 1980)