Centres and Peripheries in Gender History A Historiographical Review

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.27537
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gender global academic internationalisation centre periphery
Androniki Dialeti
University of Thessaly
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1093-7644
Abstract

This article has two purposes. Firstly, it examines recent historiographical overviews that mostly discuss “peripheral” or “national”/“regional” historiographical traditions, to detect current aspirations, frustrations and challenges in respect of how academic centres, peripheries and hierarchies are constructed in gender history today. Secondly, it discusses the profile of four international journals dedicated to women’s and gender history to examine how historiographical centres and peripheries have been shaped through their pages in the last decade (2011–2020).

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Androniki Dialeti, University of Thessaly

Androniki Dialeti is Associate Professor of Early Modern European History in the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly. She studied history at the University of Athens. She holds a PhD from the University of Glasgow with a thesis on The Debate about Women and its Socio-Cultural Background in Early Modern Venice (2005). Her research interests focus on the Italian Renaissance, the Venetian state, witchcraft, sexuality, the body, gender history, and historiography. Her essays have been published in edited volumes and journals, including Gender & History, Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme, Genesis: Rivista della Società Italiana delle Storiche, the Historical Journal and Historein. She has co-edited the volumes Gender in History: Historiographical Accounts and Case Studies (Athens 2015), Masculinities: Representations, Subjectivities and Practices from the Medieval to Modern Times (Athens 2019) and The Local, the Global and the Transnational in European History: Mobilities, Encounters and Hierarchies (Athens 2023, in Greek). She is co-author of History of Venice and the Venetian Empire, 11th–18th Century (Athens 2016) and author of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: A Social and Cultural History (Athens 2023, in Greek).

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