Voice trouble: the search for women's words in French historiography.

From: CLIO | Date: September 22, 1997| Author: Carrard, Philippe | Copyright information

The difficulty in discovering a dialogue of women in French historical references originates not only from scarce observations about but also from them. Historians have re-examined writings from a variety of sources and periods, searching for both descriptions of women and passages in which their spoken words have been recorded.

The last section in each volume of the recent Histoire des femmes en Occident is titled "Paroles de femmes" ("Words of women"), and it includes a few pag...

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