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Recovering Women’s Histories: An Enquiry into Methodological Questions and Challenges

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  • Veena Poonacha

    (Research Centre for Women’s Studies, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, poonacha@yahoo.co.uk)

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Born out of women’s struggles for equality, women’s studies have challenged the process of knowledge construction in social sciences and humanities. Indicating the ‘politics of knowledge generation’, feminist scholarship has contended that mainstream social sciences/humanities do not articulate women’s knowledge or their experiences of reality. This struggle to integrate women’s voices/experiences raises serious epistemological questions that fundamentally alter our understanding of social reality. Further, as there is an intimate connection between theory and method, feminist research has—in its quest for recovering and articulating women’s experiences—experimented with innovative research techniques. Focusing on women’s writing of history, this discussion points out the ways in which attempts to recover women’s historical presence fundamentally alter our understanding of history.

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  • Veena Poonacha, 2004. "Recovering Women’s Histories: An Enquiry into Methodological Questions and Challenges," Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Centre for Women's Development Studies, vol. 11(3), pages 389-404, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:indgen:v:11:y:2004:i:3:p:389-404
    DOI: 10.1177/097152150401100306
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    1. Dutta, Priyanka, 2015. "Locating the historical past of the women tea workers of North Bengal," Working Papers 341, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.

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