1. RoseSonyaO.Gender history/women's history: is feminist scholarship losing its critical edge? Journal of Women's History, 1993590(paraphrasing Joan Wallach Scott). It is not the purpose of this essay to discuss the linguistic technicalities of the current debate in the United States over poststructural literary criticism, semiotics, new historicism, new cultural history, or cultural and symbolic anthropology. My concern is with the possible motivations for, and the practical implications of, the ‘linguistic turn’ in terms of feminist politics, public policy, and the writing and teaching of women's history in the United States and in countries where this field is only beginning to develop. For those interested in these complicated linquistic debates, a good place to start is:SpiegelGabrielleM.History, historicism, and the social logic of the text in the middle ages Speculum 1990655986CanningKathleenFeminist history after the linguistic turn: historicizing discourse and experience Signs 199419368390and the above-cited dialogue on Women's History/Gender HistoryRose Journal of Women's 19935199389128
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