| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Julie Des Jardins. Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880–1945. (Gender & American Culture.) Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2003. Pp. x, 380. Cloth $45.00, paper $19.95.

In this book, Julie Des Jardins takes up a fascinating subject: the kinds of history written by American women, both inside and outside the academy, between 1880 and 1945. These dates allow Des Jardins to study women's experiences as the historical enterprise itself was extruded through the die of professionalization. As we know from earlier studies, most especially Bonnie G. Smith's The Gender of History: Men, Women, and Historical Practice (1998), this transformative process shoved women to the margins of the discipline, privileging political history written by men trained in university seminars and admitted to governmental archives. Des Jardins argues that this subordination granted women perspectives on the past that encouraged them to write about and in sympathy with history's underdogs and thus to pioneer the social and cultural history that would explode into prominence in the 1960s. Interestingly, this broad-ranging social and cultural history sometimes depended on and seemed an heir to the kinds of history that middle-class women had generated before the professional turn. Des Jardins draws links, then, between the preprofessional history produced by Victorian women and the emphases of professional history in the late twentieth century.

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