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- Title
The Modern Woman as Global Exemplar, Part I: Biographies of Women Worthies.
- Authors
Reeves, Caroline
- Abstract
The literary genre of 'Biographies of Women Worthies' exists across the globe, historically and analytically important. This essay examines the potential this genre of writing holds for scholars of world and transnational history, particularly those who wish to incorporate gender and cultural studies into their work. I focus on the late 19th-/early 20th-century global process of cooptation and incorporation of foreign moral exemplars into local compendia of eminent women and suggest avenues for cross-area research to expand the field of World History.
- Subjects
EGYPT; UNITED Kingdom; WOMEN -- Biography; HISTORIOGRAPHY of women; HISTORIOGRAPHY of world history; COMPARATIVE historiography; HISTORY of education of women; NIGHTINGALE, Florence, 1820-1910; HISTORY; BIOGRAPHY (Literary form)
- Publication
History Compass, 2015, Vol 13, Issue 4, p184
- ISSN
1478-0542
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1111/hic3.12226