Document Type : Scientific-Research
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University of Esfahan
Abstract
Feminist historiography, which at the beginning was influenced by positivist approaches to the subject of women, went to historical sources, then, with the help of post-structuralist ideas, made gender the main focus of its historical studies, which sought to expand historical and historiographical issues beyond a specific gender. History studies based on gender were first started by a feminist historian named John Wallach Scott in America. By integrating historiography and philosophy and presenting the theory of gender, he discussed the racist use of sexual liberation and proposed gender as an analytical tool for historians. Many researchers and thinkers put this theory as an approach to understand historical studies in the field of women and sometimes, without paying attention to the theoretical foundations of this approach, they used it as the only postmodern theory in the field of women's history studies. Therefore, the upcoming article aims to investigate the issue of gender in historiography, while introducing the thought of John Wallach Scott in the historiography of gender, it will analyze and investigate the feminist epistemological grounds about the formation of this theory. In line with this purpose, this thesis deals with the issue of how and with what propositions Wallach Scott's approach proposes gender to understand the meaning of historical knowledge? In fact, Scott while applying post-structuralist thought in criticizing language and denying the natural body, the theory of gender analysis presents as a method in historical studies and historiography.
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