Table of Contents

Preliminaries 1. History, Postmodern Critique and Alternative Visions 2. Reinventing the Wheel: Presenting the Past 3. Negotiating ‘Difference’ 4. The ‘Positioned’ Subject 5. Reflections. Notes. Bibliography

About the Author

Hélène Bowen Raddeker is Senior Lecturer in the School of History, University of New South Wales, Sydney. The author of Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan (Routledge, 1997), she has published in Asian Studies and Feminist Studies and other journals in Australia, Europe and the U.S.A.

Reviews

"Raddeker (Univ. of New South Wales) displays admirable effort in writting this book, which expounds new theories pertinent to historical research (postmodernism, postcolonialism, and feminism) with concrete case studies sampled from working historians. ... Her samples are inevitable selective, yet intentionally global/cross-cultural, suggesting a wide range of reading. And they are mostly effective in illustrating her points. ..." -- CHOICE April 2008 Vol. 45 (Q.E. Wang, Rowarn University)