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Examines how women's histories are explored and explained around the worldMaking Women's Histories showcases the transformations that the intellectual and political production of women s history has engendered across time and space. It considers the difference women s and gender history has made to and within national fields of study, and to what extent the wider historiography has integrated this new knowledge. What are the accomplishments of women s and gender history? What are its shortcomings? What is its future?The contributors discuss their discovery of women s histories, the multiple turns the field has taken, and how place affected the course of this scholarship. Noted scholars of women s and gender history, they stand atop such historiographically-defined vantage points as Tsarist Russia, the British Empire in Egypt and India, Qing-dynasty China, and the U.S. roiling through the 1960s. From these and other peaks they gaze out at the world around them, surveying trajectories in the creation of women s histories in recent and distant pasts and envisioning their futures.