1. This essay bears the markings of ongoing conversations with Leora Auslander, Gary Daily, Susan Dehler, Darlene Hantzis, Arvid Perez, Hannah Rosen and Deborah Rossum. Its shortcomings are, finally, my own. Thanks are due also to the History Department and the Women's Studies Program at Indiana State University for supporting my attempts at feminist transformation in the classroom, and to my students – for never failing to challenge me
2. By ‘history’ here I mean the production of knowledges about the past, ‘a mode of writing’ which is in itself not just a function, but also a process continually contingent on its location in the academic discipline of history and the cultural moment in which it is produced. See Minh-ha T.Woman, Native, OtherIndiana University Press Bloomington 1989 20
3. Gender and the Politics of History