| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.1

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Book Review

Methods/Theory

Laura McCall and Donald Yacovone, editors. A Shared Experience: Men, Women, and the History of Gender. Foreword by Mark C. Carnes. New York: New York University Press. 1998. PP. xvi, 387. Cloth $55.00, paper $18.50.

Fortunately, this anthology advances somewhat beyond its initial premises. It starts off boldly, claiming to challenge and revise the historiography of a generation. To do so, however, it wilfully misreads and misrepresents that historiography. Asserting that historians who wrote about the nineteenth-century doctrine of "separate spheres" found a "vast chasm" between men's and women's lives, editors Laura McCall and Donald Yacovone construct a straw man or straw woman of previous historiography in order to break it down. I confess my personal interest in clarifying the misrepresentation here, since I am named as one of the "chief architects" of this historiography; yet a more general issue is involved, namely, how far a new generation of historians may reduce and schematize the work of their predecessors in order to present their own views as novel. . . .

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