Introduction: "Hardly any women at all?" Women and the history men -- PART I: MEN'S HISTORY : The Classical inheritance -- "All histories are against you" : women and the history men -- PART II: WOMEN'S HISTORY : "Above their sex"? Women's history "before" feminism -- History's romantic heroines : women's history and revolutionary feminism -- "Heroines of domestic life" : women's history and female biography -- Women's history and the "woman question" -- Amateurs or professionals? Women's history in the academy -- "Clio's consciousness raised"? Women's liberation and women's history -- Liberating women's history? Feminism and the reconstruction of history -- Surpassing the history of men : women's history and lesbian history -- Conclusion : Dealing with difference.
