During the 1970s, an attempt to write a history of women was made maybe influenced by the political agenda of women movements. There is a great diversity in topics, methods, and interpretations. However, there is a common dimension to the enterprise of these scholars, and is to make women a focus of enquiry, a subject of the story. This raises the question: what does the feminist rewriting of history entails? In this article, the author examines the various approaches to this debate less in terms of their conclusions than in terms of their assumptions and methods. The author draws heavily in North American scholarship, because is there where the largest volume on the subject and interpretation of women’s history has been produced.
