In this pathbreaking study, Bonnie Smith shows how the practices of history, and indeed its very definition, have been shaped by gender. The male historians of the archive and the seminar prioritized men's history over women's, white history over non-white, and the political history of the Western governments over any other. From this environment Smith resurrects a neglected world of amateur history written by women, a world deemed trivial by their male counterparts, but one that holds essential lessons for our understanding of history today.
